. Welcome to the world of Wordpress, Scott!We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
\nThese releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.
\nAs an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.
\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:69:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:345:"We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.\nThese releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1138:"We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
\nThese releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.
\nAs an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.
\n";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Google Summer of Code";s:4:"link";s:63:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/google-summer-of-code/";s:8:"comments";s:72:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/google-summer-of-code/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:28:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:7:"General";s:4:"guid";s:63:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/google-summer-of-code/";s:11:"description";s:320:"Looking for something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to apply to get paid $4,500 USD to work on your favorite open source project this summer. WordPress is among the 131 accepted to Google Summer of Code, of more than 300 projects that applied\nWe have eight [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1095:"Looking for something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to apply to get paid $4,500 USD to work on your favorite open source project this summer. WordPress is among the 131 accepted to Google Summer of Code, of more than 300 projects that applied
\nWe have eight committed volunteers who are enthusiastic to mentor, learn, and make WordPress a little better in the process.
\nCheck out our ideas for projects, or propose your own. You must apply
\nby March 24. Good luck!
Looking for something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to apply to get paid $4,500 USD to work on your favorite open source project this summer. WordPress is among the 131 accepted to Google Summer of Code, of more than 300 projects that applied
\nWe have eight committed volunteers who are enthusiastic to mentor, learn, and make WordPress a little better in the process.
\nCheck out our ideas for projects, or propose your own. You must apply
\nby March 24. Good luck!
One of the greatest things about WordPress has always been the amazing number of high-quality plugins available for the platform. I believe that there aren’t any more “killer features” in software, there are 10,000 killer features and everyone has a different 20. If we tried to put everything into WordPress the result would be, for lack of a better term, bloated. However through our robust plugin API people have used WordPress as a platform for building almost anything you can imagine leveraging the huge WP userbase and scalable core codebase.
\nThat’s all fine and dandy, but having all these plugins isn’t that useful if you’ve got no place to find them. Even though we have provided development hosting at wp-plugins.org for years, we hadn’t had a user interface to the plugins hosted there, which I think was a travesty.
\nNo longer! Our ever-expanding “extend” section now has a brand-spanking new plugins directory where you can browse, download, rate, and comment on all your favorite plugins. I highly encourage you to go check it out.
\nFor users, this means:
\nFor developers, you now have:
\nAs a developer all you need to do to start taking advantage of the new plugin pages is to include a properly formatted readme.txt file along with your plugin.
\nProps to Michael Adams, Mark Jaquith, and Matt Thomas for making this dream a reality. We hope you all enjoy it and if you have any feedback blog it and link back to this entry so we get the pingback. Happy downloading!
\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:63:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/plugin-directory/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:357:"One of the greatest things about WordPress has always been the amazing number of high-quality plugins available for the platform. I believe that there aren’t any more “killer features” in software, there are 10,000 killer features and everyone has a different 20. If we tried to put everything into WordPress the result would be, for [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2705:"One of the greatest things about WordPress has always been the amazing number of high-quality plugins available for the platform. I believe that there aren’t any more “killer features” in software, there are 10,000 killer features and everyone has a different 20. If we tried to put everything into WordPress the result would be, for lack of a better term, bloated. However through our robust plugin API people have used WordPress as a platform for building almost anything you can imagine leveraging the huge WP userbase and scalable core codebase.
\nThat’s all fine and dandy, but having all these plugins isn’t that useful if you’ve got no place to find them. Even though we have provided development hosting at wp-plugins.org for years, we hadn’t had a user interface to the plugins hosted there, which I think was a travesty.
\nNo longer! Our ever-expanding “extend” section now has a brand-spanking new plugins directory where you can browse, download, rate, and comment on all your favorite plugins. I highly encourage you to go check it out.
\nFor users, this means:
\nFor developers, you now have:
\nAs a developer all you need to do to start taking advantage of the new plugin pages is to include a properly formatted readme.txt file along with your plugin.
\nProps to Michael Adams, Mark Jaquith, and Matt Thomas for making this dream a reality. We hope you all enjoy it and if you have any feedback blog it and link back to this entry so we get the pingback. Happy downloading!
\n";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:17:"WordPress at SxSW";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/wordpress-at-sxsw/";s:8:"comments";s:68:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/wordpress-at-sxsw/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:29:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:6:"Events";s:4:"guid";s:59:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/wordpress-at-sxsw/";s:11:"description";s:301:"Every year South by Southwest, or SxSW, is a very unique and affordable confluence of some of the most influential minds on the web gathering in the state where I grew up, Texas. It’s actually the first tech conference I ever went to, four years ago, and where I got my start down the path [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1368:"Every year South by Southwest, or SxSW, is a very unique and affordable confluence of some of the most influential minds on the web gathering in the state where I grew up, Texas. It’s actually the first tech conference I ever went to, four years ago, and where I got my start down the path that has led me to where I am today.
\nAnother movement close to my heart, Barcamp, is in full effect here in Austin. Saturday March 10 at 6 PM we’re going to do a WordPress meetup at the Barcamp venue Bourbon Rocks on 6th Street. Unlike many other SxSW parties, it is completely open to the public and doesn’t require a conference badge. There will be food and drinks available, and a live band after we wrap up the meetup.
\nSo come enjoy part of your SxSW evening in this beautiful Austin weather with fellow WordPressers. In addition to the good company, we’ll have an assortment of cool WordPress stickers free for the taking.
\nFinally if you’re attending the conference part of SxSW Interactive, be sure to check out the following cool speakers who are WordPress users like yourself:
\n\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/wordpress-at-sxsw/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:301:"Every year South by Southwest, or SxSW, is a very unique and affordable confluence of some of the most influential minds on the web gathering in the state where I grew up, Texas. It’s actually the first tech conference I ever went to, four years ago, and where I got my start down the path [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1368:"Every year South by Southwest, or SxSW, is a very unique and affordable confluence of some of the most influential minds on the web gathering in the state where I grew up, Texas. It’s actually the first tech conference I ever went to, four years ago, and where I got my start down the path that has led me to where I am today.
\nAnother movement close to my heart, Barcamp, is in full effect here in Austin. Saturday March 10 at 6 PM we’re going to do a WordPress meetup at the Barcamp venue Bourbon Rocks on 6th Street. Unlike many other SxSW parties, it is completely open to the public and doesn’t require a conference badge. There will be food and drinks available, and a live band after we wrap up the meetup.
\nSo come enjoy part of your SxSW evening in this beautiful Austin weather with fellow WordPressers. In addition to the good company, we’ll have an assortment of cool WordPress stickers free for the taking.
\nFinally if you’re attending the conference part of SxSW Interactive, be sure to check out the following cool speakers who are WordPress users like yourself:
\n\n";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:43:"WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/";s:8:"comments";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:53:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/";s:11:"description";s:343:"Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.\nLonger explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:660:"Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
\nLonger explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
\n\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:343:"Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.\nLonger explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:660:"Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
\nLonger explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
\n\n";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:29:"New Releases: 2.1.1 and 2.0.9";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/02/new-releases/";s:8:"comments";s:63:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/02/new-releases/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:45:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/02/new-releases/";s:11:"description";s:369:"We’ve got a new bugfix and security release for both of our actively maintained branches of WordPress. Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. It’s available for immediate download on our download page. \nVersion 2.0.9 only includes the security update, which was around [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:991:"We’ve got a new bugfix and security release for both of our actively maintained branches of WordPress. Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. It’s available for immediate download on our download page.
\nVersion 2.0.9 only includes the security update, which was around the code we use to prevent XSS. You can download it from our release archive. As a reminder, we’ve committed to proving security updates to 2.0 through 2010, but all new features and development are going into the newer branch, which is at this time 2.1.
\nThis is a low-to-medium priority update recommended for all WordPress users. After the break is a list of changed files.
\n\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:59:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/02/new-releases/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:369:"We’ve got a new bugfix and security release for both of our actively maintained branches of WordPress. Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. It’s available for immediate download on our download page. \nVersion 2.0.9 only includes the security update, which was around [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:991:"We’ve got a new bugfix and security release for both of our actively maintained branches of WordPress. Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. It’s available for immediate download on our download page.
\nVersion 2.0.9 only includes the security update, which was around the code we use to prevent XSS. You can download it from our release archive. As a reminder, we’ve committed to proving security updates to 2.0 through 2010, but all new features and development are going into the newer branch, which is at this time 2.1.
\nThis is a low-to-medium priority update recommended for all WordPress users. After the break is a list of changed files.
\n\n";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:18:"WordPress 2.1 Ella";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/";s:8:"comments";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:24:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:49:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/";s:11:"description";s:377:"On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here’s a sampling of what’s in the new version:\n\n Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. \n Our new tabbed editor allows you to [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:4690:"On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here’s a sampling of what’s in the new version:
\n…and much, much more. There are little easter eggs hidden everywhere, so the best way to find everything new is to just try it out.
\nDevelopers will especially love this release, as it has much cleaner code than 2.0 and includes hundreds of enhancements that will enable a new generation of richer plugins. Here’s a taste of some of the things included:
\n2.1 also includes over 550 bug fixes.
\nWhat’s really exciting for me is what’s coming in the future. First of all, the 2.0 series was an unparalleled success, with over 1.8 million downloads, and thanks to the work of Mark Jaquith we’re committing to maintaining stable security and bug fixes on the 2.0 branch until 2010.
\nMore exciting for most of our users, though, is our new development cycle. Based on everything we’ve learned in the past 3 years of doing WordPress, we’ve decided to shift to a more frequent release schedule like Ubuntu, with major releases coming several times a year. So, for the first time in WordPress’ history, I have an answer to when the next version is coming out: April 23rd.
\nEven better, the development will be driven primarily by the features you guys are voting for on the ideas board. (But wait, there’s more: the ideas board now has a new Hot-or-Not-like interface for rating a bunch of ideas at once, so go get your vote on and have a say in WordPress 2.2.)
\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:377:"On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here’s a sampling of what’s in the new version:\n\n Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. \n Our new tabbed editor allows you to [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:4690:"On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here’s a sampling of what’s in the new version:
\n…and much, much more. There are little easter eggs hidden everywhere, so the best way to find everything new is to just try it out.
\nDevelopers will especially love this release, as it has much cleaner code than 2.0 and includes hundreds of enhancements that will enable a new generation of richer plugins. Here’s a taste of some of the things included:
\n2.1 also includes over 550 bug fixes.
\nWhat’s really exciting for me is what’s coming in the future. First of all, the 2.0 series was an unparalleled success, with over 1.8 million downloads, and thanks to the work of Mark Jaquith we’re committing to maintaining stable security and bug fixes on the 2.0 branch until 2010.
\nMore exciting for most of our users, though, is our new development cycle. Based on everything we’ve learned in the past 3 years of doing WordPress, we’ve decided to shift to a more frequent release schedule like Ubuntu, with major releases coming several times a year. So, for the first time in WordPress’ history, I have an answer to when the next version is coming out: April 23rd.
\nEven better, the development will be driven primarily by the features you guys are voting for on the ideas board. (But wait, there’s more: the ideas board now has a new Hot-or-Not-like interface for rating a bunch of ideas at once, so go get your vote on and have a say in WordPress 2.2.)
\n";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.0.7";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-207/";s:8:"comments";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-207/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:14:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Mark Jaquith";}s:8:"category";s:16:"SecurityReleases";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-207/";s:11:"description";s:331:"Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2239:"Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running WordPress 2.0.6 or lower upgrade to this new version.
\nBecause this is a much smaller update than previous versions, you do not have to update all of WordPress’ files if you’re upgrading from version 2.0.6. Here is the list of files that have changed since 2.0.6:
\nWe know it sucks to have a release only 10 days after our last one, but we think it’s important enough for your blog to be secure to do it, and hopefully only having to change a few files will make the upgrade easier than normal.
\nHere are the changes that have been made since 2.0.6:
\nwp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5 versions less than 5.1.4 with register_globals set to “On.”304 Not Modified headers instead of mismatched 200/304 headers (a.k.a. the FeedBurner bug).304 Not Modified fix from WordPress 2.1And just as a reminder, the next major version of WordPress (2.1) is due out by the end of the month, but the 2.0 branch of WordPress will continue to be maintained for several years.
\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-207/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:331:"Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2239:"Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running WordPress 2.0.6 or lower upgrade to this new version.
\nBecause this is a much smaller update than previous versions, you do not have to update all of WordPress’ files if you’re upgrading from version 2.0.6. Here is the list of files that have changed since 2.0.6:
\nWe know it sucks to have a release only 10 days after our last one, but we think it’s important enough for your blog to be secure to do it, and hopefully only having to change a few files will make the upgrade easier than normal.
\nHere are the changes that have been made since 2.0.6:
\nwp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5 versions less than 5.1.4 with register_globals set to “On.”304 Not Modified headers instead of mismatched 200/304 headers (a.k.a. the FeedBurner bug).304 Not Modified fix from WordPress 2.1And just as a reminder, the next major version of WordPress (2.1) is due out by the end of the month, but the 2.0 branch of WordPress will continue to be maintained for several years.
\n";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:17:"Ideas and Kvetch!";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ideas-and-kvetch/";s:8:"comments";s:67:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ideas-and-kvetch/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:18:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:15:"MetaDevelopment";s:4:"guid";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ideas-and-kvetch/";s:11:"description";s:324:"It’s a new year, and we have a new major release of WordPress coming soon. (We’re currently aiming for the 22nd.) It’s as good a time as any to examine where we’ve been, and where we are, and where we’re going as a community. 2006 was a pretty exciting year, we saw 1.54 million downloads [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2235:"It’s a new year, and we have a new major release of WordPress coming soon. (We’re currently aiming for the 22nd.) It’s as good a time as any to examine where we’ve been, and where we are, and where we’re going as a community. 2006 was a pretty exciting year, we saw 1.54 million downloads of WP, and that’s not even counting the people who install it through their host’s one-click install or the half a million who have experienced it through the hosted WordPress.com. WordPress is touching more lives than ever.
\nHowever, just because what we’ve done has worked in the past doesn’t mean it’s the best for the future. We have to take a self-critical look at assumptions we have about our development process and WP itself. The upcoming release, which has been long coming, is a perfect time to focus on WP’s secret ingredient… you.
\nIf you could add anything in the world to WordPress, what would it be? If you could name the thing that frustrates you the most about WP, what would that be?
\nNow you can tell us. We’re announcing new projects—two sides of the same coin.
\nThe first is simply called Ideas, and it’s a place where you can share your wildest WordPress wishes with the world, and also vote on other people’s ideas. This allows people outside our normal circle of developers to have a direct say in what goes into the next version of WordPress. For 2.2, which comes out in late April, we will include the top voted on features, so propose something, tell your friends about it, and link it from your blog.
\nThe second we’ve named after the Yiddish word, Kvetch. This is a place where you can quickly and anonymously express whatever might disagree with you in the WordPress world. Let it all loose, but try to keep it PG rated, and we’ll show a random kvetch on the page once we get enough in the system.
\nBoth are just part of putting you guys—our users—first. It’s easy because there’s so many of you.
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\nHowever, just because what we’ve done has worked in the past doesn’t mean it’s the best for the future. We have to take a self-critical look at assumptions we have about our development process and WP itself. The upcoming release, which has been long coming, is a perfect time to focus on WP’s secret ingredient… you.
\nIf you could add anything in the world to WordPress, what would it be? If you could name the thing that frustrates you the most about WP, what would that be?
\nNow you can tell us. We’re announcing new projects—two sides of the same coin.
\nThe first is simply called Ideas, and it’s a place where you can share your wildest WordPress wishes with the world, and also vote on other people’s ideas. This allows people outside our normal circle of developers to have a direct say in what goes into the next version of WordPress. For 2.2, which comes out in late April, we will include the top voted on features, so propose something, tell your friends about it, and link it from your blog.
\nThe second we’ve named after the Yiddish word, Kvetch. This is a place where you can quickly and anonymously express whatever might disagree with you in the WordPress world. Let it all loose, but try to keep it PG rated, and we’ll show a random kvetch on the page once we get enough in the system.
\nBoth are just part of putting you guys—our users—first. It’s easy because there’s so many of you.
\n";}i:9;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.0.6";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/";s:8:"comments";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:24:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:16:"SecurityReleases";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/";s:11:"description";s:414:"We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years.\nHere’s what’s new:\n\nThe aforementioned security fixes.\nHTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.\nComments are filtered to prevent [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1444:"We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years.
\nHere’s what’s new:
\nFor developers, there’s a new anti-XSS function called attribute_escape(), and a new filter called “query” which allows you filter any SQL at runtime. (Which is pretty powerful.) Thanks to Mark Jaquith for handling this release and Stefan Esser for responsibly reporting the security issue.
\nAs always, you can download the latest version of WordPress here.
\nAs a side note, this is probably our last release before 2.1 is out, which will be our first major feature release in quite a while. 2.1 just entered beta stage, so if you’re interested in helping out with that process consider joining our beta group. As a reminder, if you’re a plugin or theme author you should check your code to make sure it’s compatible with 2.1 before the release.
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\nAs always, you can download the latest version of WordPress here.
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Radio to WordPress Migration: Scott writes out some instructions on how to migrate from Radio Userland to Wordpress in the process of finally migrating to Wordpress himself. I found some resources in the Wordpress wiki that needs serous TLC but Scott’s instructions might help some people. He uses a tool from Steve Hooker called backLogAllRSS but had to hack the code for things to work to his liking and he promises to share the code . Welcome to the world of Wordpress, Scott!
WordPress Commodore 64 Theme Remember the Command Line Interface (CLI) theme for Wordpress. Well now there is a theme to convert your Wordpress blog into a Commodore 64. Since the the blog has been Boing Boinged, server might be slow/dead but there is an alternative link. I love how Cory puts it … “It’s endlessly fascinating and deliciously pointless”, I cannot help but concur!
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:15:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:595:"WordPress Commodore 64 Theme Remember the Command Line Interface (CLI) theme for Wordpress. Well now there is a theme to convert your Wordpress blog into a Commodore 64. Since the the blog has been Boing Boinged, server might be slow/dead but there is an alternative link. I love how Cory puts it … “It’s endlessly fascinating and deliciously pointless”, I cannot help but concur!
";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Matt: Solo and the Wookie";s:4:"guid";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/28/solo-and-the-wookie/";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/28/solo-and-the-wookie/";s:11:"description";s:226:"Bring me Solo and the Wookie. P.S. I Can Has Cheezeburger is now hosted on WordPress.com.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:25:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:226:"Bring me Solo and the Wookie. P.S. I Can Has Cheezeburger is now hosted on WordPress.com.
";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Weblog Tools Collection: How to Design Your Own Minimalist WP Theme";s:4:"guid";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/27/how-to-design-your-own-minimalist-wp-theme/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/112489864/";s:11:"description";s:497:"How to Design Your Own Minimalist Wordpress Theme: Here’s a simple trick* for creating your very own minimalist Wordpress themes, as discussed endlessly by Diggers. First, download and install your chosen theme from any of the various Wordpress theme sites. Next, accidentally on purpose delete the themes image folder. View your blog with all of the theme’s original images missing. Interesting thought.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:00:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:497:"How to Design Your Own Minimalist Wordpress Theme: Here’s a simple trick* for creating your very own minimalist Wordpress themes, as discussed endlessly by Diggers. First, download and install your chosen theme from any of the various Wordpress theme sites. Next, accidentally on purpose delete the themes image folder. View your blog with all of the theme’s original images missing. Interesting thought.
";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Dougal Campbell: Benefits of Blogging";s:4:"guid";s:62:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/27/benefits-of-blogging";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/27/benefits-of-blogging";s:11:"description";s:1523:"\nMy brother-in-law, Bob, has been keeping a blog on wordpress.com for a while now called Arcane Code. He mostly writes about software development using Microsoft tools, because that''s what he does for a living. He''s also had some interesting posts lately about installing various flavors of Linux under Virtual PC, and a long series digging deeply into SQL Server. But one of his most recent posts caught my eye and I wanted to share it: Arcane Thoughts: Benefits of Blogging.\n
\n\nIn this article, Bob briefly outlines six benefits that he gets from writing on his blog: Meet and Greet, Self Documenting, Self Promotion, Mentoring, Education, and Giving Back. Even though I don''t make time to post something new every day (I wish I could), I have some of the same thoughts and feelings about why I keep a blog. Click on over, read his post, tell Bob why you blog. And tell him that Dougal sent you. 
\n
\nMy brother-in-law, Bob, has been keeping a blog on wordpress.com for a while now called Arcane Code. He mostly writes about software development using Microsoft tools, because that''s what he does for a living. He''s also had some interesting posts lately about installing various flavors of Linux under Virtual PC, and a long series digging deeply into SQL Server. But one of his most recent posts caught my eye and I wanted to share it: Arcane Thoughts: Benefits of Blogging.\n
\n\nIn this article, Bob briefly outlines six benefits that he gets from writing on his blog: Meet and Greet, Self Documenting, Self Promotion, Mentoring, Education, and Giving Back. Even though I don''t make time to post something new every day (I wish I could), I have some of the same thoughts and feelings about why I keep a blog. Click on over, read his post, tell Bob why you blog. And tell him that Dougal sent you. \n
Stripe Generator: While you are waiting for the Wordpress Theme Generator to dig itself out of the digg effect, check out this “ajax diagonal stripes background designer”. At first I was wondering what use cool looking candy stripes would be until I read the Striped Designs post on their blog. I love the subtle gradient stripes! Thanks to a ping from ScriptyGoddess for the Wordpress Theme Generator post.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:30:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:722:"Stripe Generator: While you are waiting for the Wordpress Theme Generator to dig itself out of the digg effect, check out this “ajax diagonal stripes background designer”. At first I was wondering what use cool looking candy stripes would be until I read the Striped Designs post on their blog. I love the subtle gradient stripes! Thanks to a ping from ScriptyGoddess for the Wordpress Theme Generator post.
";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Alex King: All Things Digital";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/26/all-things-digital";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/26/all-things-digital";s:11:"description";s:7180:"Yesterday evening All Things Digital, a new home for Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and John Paczkowski was unleashed on the internet.
\n
I’ve been working on this for the past month and a half, and it’s been a real whirlwind project. When we got the contract to build the site using WordPress, we were warned that it was an aggressive build schedule.
\nIt was.
\nAnd that was before the inevitable scope creep. 
Luckily there all-star team was in place to make it all happen. In particular the people at Mule Design who created the design and the initial XHTML/CSS template for the site (which are both top notch), Adam Tow who worked on the build portion of the project with me (and really did an outstanding job), Brian Oberkirch who can herd cats with the best of them, the great folks at Automattic who are hosting the site, Raanan Bar-Cohen, Beth Callaghan and the Dow Jones and WSJ teams, and last but certainly not least, the site principals. I really can’t say enough good things about these folks; if any of them hadn’t executed at the highest level, there is no way the site would be live right now.
\nDuring the requirements gathering portion of the project, I was very pleased when they asked explicitly for us to implement “Om’s Share This” plugin. Of course, Om’s plugin is actually my plugin - it’s great to see the plugin and the icon getting traction in such high profile sites.
\nFor those of you who are interested in the technical details, here’s a little high-level about the build itself.
\nThe site is running a single instance of WordPress Multi-User (WPMU), the same software that powers wordpress.com. It is running on several machines, but I’m happy to say I don’t know many of the server configuration details. Barry took care of all of that for us.
\nAll Things Digital isn’t your typical WPMU site. Instead of many separate blogs, we have a single site with lots and lots of content. Yes there are a couple of traditional blogs, but there are also imported WSJ columns (complete with archives), video all over the place, and there is little sense of each blog being a unique site. Quite the opposite, we often pull content from 3 or 4 “blogs”1 into a single page. You don’t see that happening a lot on a standard wordpress.com blog.
\nWe actually vacillated a little between using WPMU and a single user WordPress (WPSU) installation. It’s easier to access data globally from a WPSU installation, but creating the appearance of multiple blogs (like I do on this site) requires some complicated category manipulation, and it doesn’t have separate admin interfaces for each “blog”, which is helpful when you have multiple authors each working on their own individual content. When we made the choice to go with WPMU we weren’t sure if we were making the right decision, but with the benefit of hindsight I’m quite confident we made the right choice.
\nI’m not sure how often WPMU has been used in this manner (pulling content from multiple blogs for a single site) in the past, but I do know that it will be a lot easier in the future. Donncha did some great optimizations to make it faster to access content from other “blogs” in WPMU while we were building out the site. Thanks to the beauty of open source, everyone benefits.
\nThe fact we were able to do all of our extensive customizations in themes and plugins is a testament to WordPress’s flexibility (and to Adam’s and my creativity 
). No core changes means easy upgrades and maintenance - always a good thing.
This was a fun and challenging site to build, and there are plenty more great ideas planned for the future. I look forward to watching the great content pour in from Walt, Kara, John and the guest bloggers.
\nYesterday evening All Things Digital, a new home for Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and John Paczkowski was unleashed on the internet.
\n
I’ve been working on this for the past month and a half, and it’s been a real whirlwind project. When we got the contract to build the site using WordPress, we were warned that it was an aggressive build schedule.
\nIt was.
\nAnd that was before the inevitable scope creep.
Luckily there all-star team was in place to make it all happen. In particular the people at Mule Design who created the design and the initial XHTML/CSS template for the site (which are both top notch), Adam Tow who worked on the build portion of the project with me (and really did an outstanding job), Brian Oberkirch who can herd cats with the best of them, the great folks at Automattic who are hosting the site, Raanan Bar-Cohen, Beth Callaghan and the Dow Jones and WSJ teams, and last but certainly not least, the site principals. I really can’t say enough good things about these folks; if any of them hadn’t executed at the highest level, there is no way the site would be live right now.
\nDuring the requirements gathering portion of the project, I was very pleased when they asked explicitly for us to implement “Om’s Share This” plugin. Of course, Om’s plugin is actually my plugin - it’s great to see the plugin and the icon getting traction in such high profile sites.
\nFor those of you who are interested in the technical details, here’s a little high-level about the build itself.
\nThe site is running a single instance of WordPress Multi-User (WPMU), the same software that powers wordpress.com. It is running on several machines, but I’m happy to say I don’t know many of the server configuration details. Barry took care of all of that for us.
\nAll Things Digital isn’t your typical WPMU site. Instead of many separate blogs, we have a single site with lots and lots of content. Yes there are a couple of traditional blogs, but there are also imported WSJ columns (complete with archives), video all over the place, and there is little sense of each blog being a unique site. Quite the opposite, we often pull content from 3 or 4 “blogs”1 into a single page. You don’t see that happening a lot on a standard wordpress.com blog.
\nWe actually vacillated a little between using WPMU and a single user WordPress (WPSU) installation. It’s easier to access data globally from a WPSU installation, but creating the appearance of multiple blogs (like I do on this site) requires some complicated category manipulation, and it doesn’t have separate admin interfaces for each “blog”, which is helpful when you have multiple authors each working on their own individual content. When we made the choice to go with WPMU we weren’t sure if we were making the right decision, but with the benefit of hindsight I’m quite confident we made the right choice.
\nI’m not sure how often WPMU has been used in this manner (pulling content from multiple blogs for a single site) in the past, but I do know that it will be a lot easier in the future. Donncha did some great optimizations to make it faster to access content from other “blogs” in WPMU while we were building out the site. Thanks to the beauty of open source, everyone benefits.
\nThe fact we were able to do all of our extensive customizations in themes and plugins is a testament to WordPress’s flexibility (and to Adam’s and my creativity ). No core changes means easy upgrades and maintenance - always a good thing.
This was a fun and challenging site to build, and there are plenty more great ideas planned for the future. I look forward to watching the great content pour in from Walt, Kara, John and the guest bloggers.
\nBut today I received my first business presentation in a wordpress blog.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:24:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:157:"But today I received my first business presentation in a wordpress blog.
";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Matt: AllthingsD on WP";s:4:"guid";s:49:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/26/allthingsd-on-wp/";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/26/allthingsd-on-wp/";s:11:"description";s:563:"All Things D is a fantastic new WordPress MU powered site that I think is a really good example of what the platform can do. Being from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, they anticipate a healthy amount of traffic so they’re hosted on our VIP platform. Toni has some more details, including all the cool people involved in bringing the project together (the real work).
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:16:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:563:"All Things D is a fantastic new WordPress MU powered site that I think is a really good example of what the platform can do. Being from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, they anticipate a healthy amount of traffic so they’re hosted on our VIP platform. Toni has some more details, including all the cool people involved in bringing the project together (the real work).
";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Theme Generator";s:4:"guid";s:79:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/25/wordpress-theme-generator/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/112016608/";s:11:"description";s:594:"Wordpress Theme Generator: There used to be some very good ones out there but they seem to have dropped out of favor. This new one offers such conveniences as instant previews, lots of layout, color and gradient settings, custom header graphics and download of individual files as well as a neatly packaged zip. This could be a good starting point for Wordpress bloggers who want to play around with colors and layout and do not want to muddy their hands with code. I like the instant gratification and appreciate Yvo’s hard work.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:15:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:594:"Wordpress Theme Generator: There used to be some very good ones out there but they seem to have dropped out of favor. This new one offers such conveniences as instant previews, lots of layout, color and gradient settings, custom header graphics and download of individual files as well as a neatly packaged zip. This could be a good starting point for Wordpress bloggers who want to play around with colors and layout and do not want to muddy their hands with code. I like the instant gratification and appreciate Yvo’s hard work.
";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Lorelle on WP: WordPress.com Hiccup with Themes";s:4:"guid";s:72:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/wordpresscom-hiccup-with-themes/";s:4:"link";s:72:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/wordpresscom-hiccup-with-themes/";s:11:"description";s:3730:"If you are experiencing, like I am, a bad WordPress Theme day, your messed up WordPress Theme issue has been reported and they are looking into it.
\nAnother Update - Everything has been fixed. If you are still having trouble, contact WordPress.com support through the FEEDBACK button. Thanks, WordPress.com crew!
\nSo if your custom CSS WordPress Theme has reverted back to the Default, be patient. Hopefully it will be back up to what it was soon. Update: Themes appear to be working now.
\nYou will also notice that instead of your blog’s name in the title of your WordPress Administration Panels, you will see “My Weblog”. This is just a glitch in the system, too.
Remember, WordPress.com is cutting edge blogging technology. We WordPress.com bloggers are working with the very latest version of WordPress, testing it and putting it through its paces. Our feedback to the developers makes WordPress even better for everyone. But it does mean we have to put up with a few glitches once in a while.
\nUPDATE: If you are getting email from your WordPress.com blog, it is because all the settings have been reset. Go into your Options and reset the Discussion > Email sections to email you or not when someone leaves a comment on your blog.
\nI’m sure there will be a few more glitches while this is being worked on. Be patient. They are working on it.
\n
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If you are experiencing, like I am, a bad WordPress Theme day, your messed up WordPress Theme issue has been reported and they are looking into it.
\nAnother Update - Everything has been fixed. If you are still having trouble, contact WordPress.com support through the FEEDBACK button. Thanks, WordPress.com crew!
\nSo if your custom CSS WordPress Theme has reverted back to the Default, be patient. Hopefully it will be back up to what it was soon. Update: Themes appear to be working now.
\nYou will also notice that instead of your blog’s name in the title of your WordPress Administration Panels, you will see “My Weblog”. This is just a glitch in the system, too.
Remember, WordPress.com is cutting edge blogging technology. We WordPress.com bloggers are working with the very latest version of WordPress, testing it and putting it through its paces. Our feedback to the developers makes WordPress even better for everyone. But it does mean we have to put up with a few glitches once in a while.
\nUPDATE: If you are getting email from your WordPress.com blog, it is because all the settings have been reset. Go into your Options and reset the Discussion > Email sections to email you or not when someone leaves a comment on your blog.
\nI’m sure there will be a few more glitches while this is being worked on. Be patient. They are working on it.
\n
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\nOrganize Series
Description
\nThe Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for readers of your blog to discover all the series you’ve written and also to easily find post that are part of the same series.
Features
\nDemo
\n- http://www.unfoldingneurons.com/category/series/
\n- http://www.unashamedsermons.com/category/series/
Future Plans
\nReview
\nOrganize Series is a plugin I haven’t given a complete test, but intend to do so as part of the series I run on my tech blog. It is also strange that I haven’t implemented it yet!
Anyway, the plugin does what it says it will do and that is help you run a series on your WordPress blog.
\nInstalling and using this plugin however isn’t for total beginners to WordPress, but with a little patience this can be done, because the author has detailed the instructions very clearly on a the plugin page. Kudos for that!
\nThe installation requires you to create a category for your series, feed the category ID to the plugin via the Options page and copy a category template file to your theme and maybe customize the look of it to fit your blog.
\nFor more advanced users, the plugin provides a good number of template tags that you can use to customize the posts of the series. This ensures a perfect integration with your blog, limited by your imagination (and what the plugin provides )
Overall, the plugin is impressive. I would like some feedback from users who are using the plugin already on their blogs.
\nHow has it been performing for you? How easy was it to setup the plugin and the series on your blog. Do put in the URLs for the series so that we can take a look.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:30:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:4303:"Plugin Page
\nOrganize Series
Description
\nThe Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for readers of your blog to discover all the series you’ve written and also to easily find post that are part of the same series.
Features
\nDemo
\n- http://www.unfoldingneurons.com/category/series/
\n- http://www.unashamedsermons.com/category/series/
Future Plans
\nReview
\nOrganize Series is a plugin I haven’t given a complete test, but intend to do so as part of the series I run on my tech blog. It is also strange that I haven’t implemented it yet!
Anyway, the plugin does what it says it will do and that is help you run a series on your WordPress blog.
\nInstalling and using this plugin however isn’t for total beginners to WordPress, but with a little patience this can be done, because the author has detailed the instructions very clearly on a the plugin page. Kudos for that!
\nThe installation requires you to create a category for your series, feed the category ID to the plugin via the Options page and copy a category template file to your theme and maybe customize the look of it to fit your blog.
\nFor more advanced users, the plugin provides a good number of template tags that you can use to customize the posts of the series. This ensures a perfect integration with your blog, limited by your imagination (and what the plugin provides )
Overall, the plugin is impressive. I would like some feedback from users who are using the plugin already on their blogs.
\nHow has it been performing for you? How easy was it to setup the plugin and the series on your blog. Do put in the URLs for the series so that we can take a look.
";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: Another Theme Viewer";s:4:"guid";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/24/another-theme-viewer/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/111726545/";s:11:"description";s:1347:"Tom has put together a Wordpress Theme Viewer with 39 themes. Many of these themes have been announced here before and before anyone asks, Tom has no plans to update the viewer with new themes. You can download the themes in his viewer from this list.
\nAnother reason for this post is to draw attention to some of Tom’s work and the reason I want to garner that attention is because I believe that his work can be really helpful to novice bloggers. He is a technical writer and podcaster and has a lot of good things to say on and about Wordpress. He has written on themes (on which the theme viewer was based), plugins and various other Wordpress and blogging tips and tools.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:45:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:1347:"Tom has put together a Wordpress Theme Viewer with 39 themes. Many of these themes have been announced here before and before anyone asks, Tom has no plans to update the viewer with new themes. You can download the themes in his viewer from this list.
\nAnother reason for this post is to draw attention to some of Tom’s work and the reason I want to garner that attention is because I believe that his work can be really helpful to novice bloggers. He is a technical writer and podcaster and has a lot of good things to say on and about Wordpress. He has written on themes (on which the theme viewer was based), plugins and various other Wordpress and blogging tips and tools.
";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Weblog Tools Collection: Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?";s:4:"guid";s:96:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/24/where-are-all-the-open-source-billionaires/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/111649897/";s:11:"description";s:651:"Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. It’s part of the intent of open source software — to balance the scales by devaluing the obscene profit margins that exist in the commercial software business. . . . There are real millionaires– even billionaires– who built companies on open source software. Just ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or the YouTube founders. The real money isn’t in the software. It’s in the service you build with that software.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:45:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:651:"Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. It’s part of the intent of open source software — to balance the scales by devaluing the obscene profit margins that exist in the commercial software business. . . . There are real millionaires– even billionaires– who built companies on open source software. Just ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or the YouTube founders. The real money isn’t in the software. It’s in the service you build with that software.
";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Weblog Tools Collection: He said, She Said Meme";s:4:"guid";s:75:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/24/he-said-she-said-meme/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/111622800/";s:11:"description";s:2509:"I love bloggers, they are very good people. But even the most kind hearted and best intentioned bloggers sometimes either misinterpret or misread information and the piece ends up very different from where it started its life. This somewhat macabre movement of information from one person to other with slight mutilations is very interesting to me. All of us have studied or read about it in one form or fashion.
\nNow here is the idea for the meme: Read through the following news paragraph and recreate a post on your blog from memory if you will. Encourage your readers to do the same with a link back to your post.
\n\nNow, imagine throwing video into that mix. By the time I got the headphones on and the video downloaded, I’d be on to designing some new feature (or, more likely, answering more email). I’d only get to hear three words at a time, which just doesn’t seem very satisfying. I can sometimes have podcasts on the in the background, and those are easy to download and listen to at the gym. (I have a working shuffle! I can once again listen to things while I work out! And I can still do email at the same time.) But videos? I realize this is my own personal shortcoming, my short attention span that accelerates my multitasking tendencies, but why can’t all videos come with transcripts, like closed captioning for those of us with attention deficits? (I realize also this wouldn’t work so well with videos of cute jumping cats.)
I would love to read the third (or fourth and so on) reiteration of this paragraph.
\nNotwithstanding the results of this experiment, these human failings are just the reason us bloggers (and any media outlet for that matter) should pay very close attention to the originator of a thought or discussion and read the language and details quite closely before jumping to conclusions. We should be even more careful in reiterating these thoughts in our own words and make sure we link to the originator so their viewpoint is preserved and readers have the option of checking with them.
\nWhen the news or topic is hot, it is easy to fall into the trap of jumping on the bandwagon (first to market is a slippery slope, remember webvan?) but I think we owe it to ourselves and our readers to look closely.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:30:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:2509:"I love bloggers, they are very good people. But even the most kind hearted and best intentioned bloggers sometimes either misinterpret or misread information and the piece ends up very different from where it started its life. This somewhat macabre movement of information from one person to other with slight mutilations is very interesting to me. All of us have studied or read about it in one form or fashion.
\nNow here is the idea for the meme: Read through the following news paragraph and recreate a post on your blog from memory if you will. Encourage your readers to do the same with a link back to your post.
\n\nNow, imagine throwing video into that mix. By the time I got the headphones on and the video downloaded, I’d be on to designing some new feature (or, more likely, answering more email). I’d only get to hear three words at a time, which just doesn’t seem very satisfying. I can sometimes have podcasts on the in the background, and those are easy to download and listen to at the gym. (I have a working shuffle! I can once again listen to things while I work out! And I can still do email at the same time.) But videos? I realize this is my own personal shortcoming, my short attention span that accelerates my multitasking tendencies, but why can’t all videos come with transcripts, like closed captioning for those of us with attention deficits? (I realize also this wouldn’t work so well with videos of cute jumping cats.)
I would love to read the third (or fourth and so on) reiteration of this paragraph.
\nNotwithstanding the results of this experiment, these human failings are just the reason us bloggers (and any media outlet for that matter) should pay very close attention to the originator of a thought or discussion and read the language and details quite closely before jumping to conclusions. We should be even more careful in reiterating these thoughts in our own words and make sure we link to the originator so their viewpoint is preserved and readers have the option of checking with them.
\nWhen the news or topic is hot, it is easy to fall into the trap of jumping on the bandwagon (first to market is a slippery slope, remember webvan?) but I think we owe it to ourselves and our readers to look closely.
";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:81:"WordPress Podcast: Episode 23: WordPress 2.2 delayed, GSoC workers, Aaron Brazell";s:4:"guid";s:94:"http://wp-community.org/2007/04/24/episode-23-wordpress-22-delayed-gsoc-workers-aaron-brazell/";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://wp-community.org/2007/04/24/episode-23-wordpress-22-delayed-gsoc-workers-aaron-brazell/";s:11:"description";s:6:"Plugin Page:
\nhttp://blog.no-panic.at/projects/flickrss
Description:
\nFlickrss is a Wordpress plugin that displays the latest comments of your Flickr account in your Sidebar.
Features
\n- Shows latest Flickr comments in Sidebar
\n- Links back to Flickr or optionally to your own Blog if FAlbum is installed.
Future Plans
\nSome more Options to alter the way the comments get displayed in the sidebar by choosing which HTML tags get put before and after the entries.
Review
\nInstallation of this plugin is normal as well. You needa do the extra step of adding code to your sidebar.php or wherever you want the images to show up.
\nThere isn’t much to state about the plugin, as it is built for one purpose and does the job well, i.e. it fetches your comments and displays them.
\nThe plugin uses Magpie RSS which is a well established script and used by many, so the plugin comes with all the features that Magpie offers, including object caching.
\nThe inbuilt support for FAlbum ensures that visitors don’t leave your blog when viewing the comments.
\nFAlbum didn’t work for me, so I’m still looking for a good Flickr plugin that will display my sets on my blog. Someday…
\nWhat I would love to see with Flickrss is the ability to fetch the latest images as well, so that those not using FAlbum can benefit.
\nIt would also be nice to have integrated support with other Flickr plugins like Flickr Photo Album.
\nAre you using Flickrss? If not, do you find it useful… of course you need to have a Flickr account.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:46:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2053:"Plugin Page:
\nhttp://blog.no-panic.at/projects/flickrss
Description:
\nFlickrss is a Wordpress plugin that displays the latest comments of your Flickr account in your Sidebar.
Features
\n- Shows latest Flickr comments in Sidebar
\n- Links back to Flickr or optionally to your own Blog if FAlbum is installed.
Future Plans
\nSome more Options to alter the way the comments get displayed in the sidebar by choosing which HTML tags get put before and after the entries.
Review
\nInstallation of this plugin is normal as well. You needa do the extra step of adding code to your sidebar.php or wherever you want the images to show up.
\nThere isn’t much to state about the plugin, as it is built for one purpose and does the job well, i.e. it fetches your comments and displays them.
\nThe plugin uses Magpie RSS which is a well established script and used by many, so the plugin comes with all the features that Magpie offers, including object caching.
\nThe inbuilt support for FAlbum ensures that visitors don’t leave your blog when viewing the comments.
\nFAlbum didn’t work for me, so I’m still looking for a good Flickr plugin that will display my sets on my blog. Someday…
\nWhat I would love to see with Flickrss is the ability to fetch the latest images as well, so that those not using FAlbum can benefit.
\nIt would also be nice to have integrated support with other Flickr plugins like Flickr Photo Album.
\nAre you using Flickrss? If not, do you find it useful… of course you need to have a Flickr account.
";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Matt: Alexa Walled Garden";s:4:"guid";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/23/alexa-walled-garden/";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/23/alexa-walled-garden/";s:11:"description";s:370:"Access to Alexa Traffic Graphs via undocumented APIs will be closed within the next few weeks. Lame lame lame — an image tag is not an undocumented API. Recommended replacements: Quantcast, Compete.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:08:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:370:"Access to Alexa Traffic Graphs via undocumented APIs will be closed within the next few weeks. Lame lame lame — an image tag is not an undocumented API. Recommended replacements: Quantcast, Compete.
";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"Weblog Tools Collection: APAD: AntiLeech";s:4:"guid";s:68:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/23/apad-antileech/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/111214023/";s:11:"description";s:1823:"Plugin Name
\nAntiLeech
Plugin URL
\nhttp://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/AntiLeech
Description
\nAntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them.
Review
\nAntiLeech is a perfect plugin to hit back at scrapers and it is the primary purpose that the plugin is built for. The plugin can detect a splogger bot using its User-Agent string or by IP address. You also have the option of adding your own set of IP addresses to which you want to “feed” the fake content.
\nWhenever the banned bot with the banned user-agent or IP address tries to scrape your content, Antileech detects this and gives them some fake content.
\nRegular visitors will have normal browser agents and they will see the correct content. i.e. they won’t even realize you have some kind of protection setup.
\nReaders of your feed will see the small image that Akismet adds. You can see that in my blog feed.
\nBesides this, Antileech also allows you to redirect your feeds to Feedburner. This features ensures that you don’t have to edit your .htaccess file or use an alternate plugin.
\nInstalling the plugin is normal. You can set up some options from within WP-Admin itself, as well as setup which feeds you want to redirect to Feedburner.
\nI haven’t faced any problem with scrapers off late, but if that does happen and Antileech works its wonders, you shall be the first to know.
\nHave you faced problems with content scrapers?
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:30:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1823:"Plugin Name
\nAntiLeech
Plugin URL
\nhttp://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/AntiLeech
Description
\nAntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them.
Review
\nAntiLeech is a perfect plugin to hit back at scrapers and it is the primary purpose that the plugin is built for. The plugin can detect a splogger bot using its User-Agent string or by IP address. You also have the option of adding your own set of IP addresses to which you want to “feed” the fake content.
\nWhenever the banned bot with the banned user-agent or IP address tries to scrape your content, Antileech detects this and gives them some fake content.
\nRegular visitors will have normal browser agents and they will see the correct content. i.e. they won’t even realize you have some kind of protection setup.
\nReaders of your feed will see the small image that Akismet adds. You can see that in my blog feed.
\nBesides this, Antileech also allows you to redirect your feeds to Feedburner. This features ensures that you don’t have to edit your .htaccess file or use an alternate plugin.
\nInstalling the plugin is normal. You can set up some options from within WP-Admin itself, as well as setup which feeds you want to redirect to Feedburner.
\nI haven’t faced any problem with scrapers off late, but if that does happen and Antileech works its wonders, you shall be the first to know.
\nHave you faced problems with content scrapers?
";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Random Redirect Plugin";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/22/random-redirect-plugin/";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/22/random-redirect-plugin/";s:11:"description";s:299:"I wrote a quickie plugin based on an idea from Techcrunch, when you visit the URL it redirects you to a random post from your blog.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:15:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:299:"I wrote a quickie plugin based on an idea from Techcrunch, when you visit the URL it redirects you to a random post from your blog.
";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: Curt Schilling";s:4:"guid";s:47:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/21/curt-schilling/";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/21/curt-schilling/";s:11:"description";s:468:"For those of you who hadn’t heard yet, Curt Schilling has an awesome WordPress blog. He’s a star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, if you haven’t heard of him check out his Wikipedia page. He’s hosted on WordPress.com VIP Hosting, which we had to raise the price on a few months ago due to demand.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:20:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:468:"For those of you who hadn’t heard yet, Curt Schilling has an awesome WordPress blog. He’s a star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, if you haven’t heard of him check out his Wikipedia page. He’s hosted on WordPress.com VIP Hosting, which we had to raise the price on a few months ago due to demand.
";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Weblog Tools Collection: APAD: Feeder";s:4:"guid";s:65:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/21/apad-feeder/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110896581/";s:11:"description";s:1914:"Plugin Name
\nFeeder
Plugin Page
\nhttp://xubz.com/weblog/2007/03/feeder-wordpress-plugin
Description
\nFeeder is a RSS Feed aggregator which parses the feed and displays them in <li> tag.
Features
\n- User can control how many links and characters to show.
\n- Can cache the given feed on your server
My Review
\nFeeder is a simple to use plugin. The installation process is just like any other plugins. However, you do not get a management interface which would have been ideal for beginners.
You will need to edit your template files (e.g. sidebar.php) and add the necessary code. This is where you will pass an RSS2 feed url to the function. You can also pass several other parameters like number of items to display, XHTML tags to use etc.
\nThe system to pass the url is good as you will need to pass different feed urls, however, it would have been better to have a management interface in WP-Admin to set defaults for the other parameters.
\nOne good feature supported by Feeder is the ability to cache the feeds on your server. This can greatly speed up the site loading as well as reduce load from the server the feed is hosted on.
\nTalking about this plugin I got one complaint, and that is not related to the plugin, but the plugin page infact.
\nThe plugin page gives you zero information about the plugin except for a basic description and that it caches.
\nA good plugin page should have description, features, installation / removal instructions, customization (if needed) etc.
\nAnyway, this a good plugin to display headlines of feeds. However, do take permission from the owners of the feeds before you start displaying them on your blog.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:30:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1914:"Plugin Name
\nFeeder
Plugin Page
\nhttp://xubz.com/weblog/2007/03/feeder-wordpress-plugin
Description
\nFeeder is a RSS Feed aggregator which parses the feed and displays them in <li> tag.
Features
\n- User can control how many links and characters to show.
\n- Can cache the given feed on your server
My Review
\nFeeder is a simple to use plugin. The installation process is just like any other plugins. However, you do not get a management interface which would have been ideal for beginners.
You will need to edit your template files (e.g. sidebar.php) and add the necessary code. This is where you will pass an RSS2 feed url to the function. You can also pass several other parameters like number of items to display, XHTML tags to use etc.
\nThe system to pass the url is good as you will need to pass different feed urls, however, it would have been better to have a management interface in WP-Admin to set defaults for the other parameters.
\nOne good feature supported by Feeder is the ability to cache the feeds on your server. This can greatly speed up the site loading as well as reduce load from the server the feed is hosted on.
\nTalking about this plugin I got one complaint, and that is not related to the plugin, but the plugin page infact.
\nThe plugin page gives you zero information about the plugin except for a basic description and that it caches.
\nA good plugin page should have description, features, installation / removal instructions, customization (if needed) etc.
\nAnyway, this a good plugin to display headlines of feeds. However, do take permission from the owners of the feeds before you start displaying them on your blog.
";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/21";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/21/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0421/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110880346/";s:11:"description";s:1222:"Lucency is a three column, fixed width, customizable theme with transparent mainframe, roll-over subpage menu and Flickr integration.
\nLove is Here - TE is a two column Wordpress Theme, ideal for Love contented blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nLuxury is a two column, fixed width theme ideal of Real Estate blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nThrifty Scot is a two column, fixed width theme for Financial blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nSpunky Orange is a two column, orange and black, fixed width theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nRockinBlack is a black and white, clean and simple, three-column theme designed with little elements for the minimalist in mind, includes an easy-to-replace graphical header. (Contains Sponsored Links)
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:45:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1222:"Lucency is a three column, fixed width, customizable theme with transparent mainframe, roll-over subpage menu and Flickr integration.
\nLove is Here - TE is a two column Wordpress Theme, ideal for Love contented blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nLuxury is a two column, fixed width theme ideal of Real Estate blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nThrifty Scot is a two column, fixed width theme for Financial blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nSpunky Orange is a two column, orange and black, fixed width theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nRockinBlack is a black and white, clean and simple, three-column theme designed with little elements for the minimalist in mind, includes an easy-to-replace graphical header. (Contains Sponsored Links)
";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/21";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/21/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0421/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110873108/";s:11:"description";s:1627:"My Youtube Favorite Videos displays your latest favorite videos from Youtube.
\nNo Life grabs a list of links from your approved comments and turns them into a random blog show.
\nSimpleTwitter allows Wordpress blog owners to add Twitter messages to their templates.
\nWP-ExternalFeed displays links from del.icio.us, Technorati and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog.
\nPhoneGnome Updater automatically updates your PhoneGnome public profile when you create, publish, or edit a post on your WordPress blog.
\nBP Bookmarks adds feed syndication and social bookmark links to your blog.
\nw3images gallery adds an image gallery to your WP.
\nWP-Highslide is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily use Highslide by automatically inserting the necessary javascript into your posts or pages.
\nChess By Blog is a plugin for WordPress 2.0 that adds graphical chess functionality to your WordPress blog.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:00:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1627:"My Youtube Favorite Videos displays your latest favorite videos from Youtube.
\nNo Life grabs a list of links from your approved comments and turns them into a random blog show.
\nSimpleTwitter allows Wordpress blog owners to add Twitter messages to their templates.
\nWP-ExternalFeed displays links from del.icio.us, Technorati and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog.
\nPhoneGnome Updater automatically updates your PhoneGnome public profile when you create, publish, or edit a post on your WordPress blog.
\nBP Bookmarks adds feed syndication and social bookmark links to your blog.
\nw3images gallery adds an image gallery to your WP.
\nWP-Highslide is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily use Highslide by automatically inserting the necessary javascript into your posts or pages.
\nChess By Blog is a plugin for WordPress 2.0 that adds graphical chess functionality to your WordPress blog.
";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: APAD: IImage Browser";s:4:"guid";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/20/apad-iimage-browser/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110678274/";s:11:"description";s:1972:"Plugin Name
\nIImage Browser
Plugin Page
\nhttp://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/iimage-browser
Features
\n- Create and browse directories
\n- Upload images and create thumbnails
\n- Delete files
\n- Generates code to insert the image into the post
Review
\nI’ve been using this plugin for a long long time, right from the 1.5 days. Even with the new image uploader in WordPress 2.0 and 2.1, I have continued using the plugin.
The installation process is a bit cumbersome in my opinion, because it requires you to dump one php file in the plugins folder and another php file in the wp-admin directory before you get the plugin to work.
\nThe plugin adds a button to the quicktags toolbar (which is also the toolbar in Code view of the WYSIWYG in WordPress 2.1).
\nClicking this button launches the image browser, where you can upload images, create directories, create thumbnails, generate the code or delete the images.
IImage Browser gives me the exact amount of control I need to organize the images. I like the images to be organized based on category, as opposed to the date-based structure that WP offers by default.
\nOne extra feature that makes IImage Browser useful is the ability to specify custom code that you can use for full size images and ones with thumbnails.
\nI’ve used this feature to integrate the Open Picture Window plugin to display the full size image on clicking on a thumbnail.
\nAgain this is a personal choice on how I want to display images on my site, but I would like to hear your opinion.
\nAre you using this plugin? What are your experiences.
\nIf not this, what are you using to add images to your posts?
Plugin Name
\nIImage Browser
Plugin Page
\nhttp://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/iimage-browser
Features
\n- Create and browse directories
\n- Upload images and create thumbnails
\n- Delete files
\n- Generates code to insert the image into the post
Review
\nI’ve been using this plugin for a long long time, right from the 1.5 days. Even with the new image uploader in WordPress 2.0 and 2.1, I have continued using the plugin.
The installation process is a bit cumbersome in my opinion, because it requires you to dump one php file in the plugins folder and another php file in the wp-admin directory before you get the plugin to work.
\nThe plugin adds a button to the quicktags toolbar (which is also the toolbar in Code view of the WYSIWYG in WordPress 2.1).
\nClicking this button launches the image browser, where you can upload images, create directories, create thumbnails, generate the code or delete the images.
IImage Browser gives me the exact amount of control I need to organize the images. I like the images to be organized based on category, as opposed to the date-based structure that WP offers by default.
\nOne extra feature that makes IImage Browser useful is the ability to specify custom code that you can use for full size images and ones with thumbnails.
\nI’ve used this feature to integrate the Open Picture Window plugin to display the full size image on clicking on a thumbnail.
\nAgain this is a personal choice on how I want to display images on my site, but I would like to hear your opinion.
\nAre you using this plugin? What are your experiences.
\nIf not this, what are you using to add images to your posts?
1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.
\nPagebar adds a nice page bar for selecting indivual pages instead of just the previous or next page.
\nwpSEO plugin rewrites your blog title, META description and META keywords so these are more user and search engine friendly. (Page in German)
\nAmazon Book Picture allows you to include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book from Amazon.
\nFancy Pullquotes is a simple plugin for wordpress that allows you to effortlessy obtain a nice pull-quote of a specified text. The pull-quote will be formatted with a fancy nice style, exactly like one of those you can read on a regular magazine.
\nAlt to Legend is a plugin for Wordpress 2.0 that allows you to display the ALT text of an image as its caption.
\nUpdated Today displays a banner in the upper left corner of your blog when the date of the last post matches todays date, therefore telling the visitor that your blog has been updated today.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:45:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1630:"1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.
\nPagebar adds a nice page bar for selecting indivual pages instead of just the previous or next page.
\nwpSEO plugin rewrites your blog title, META description and META keywords so these are more user and search engine friendly. (Page in German)
\nAmazon Book Picture allows you to include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book from Amazon.
\nFancy Pullquotes is a simple plugin for wordpress that allows you to effortlessy obtain a nice pull-quote of a specified text. The pull-quote will be formatted with a fancy nice style, exactly like one of those you can read on a regular magazine.
\nAlt to Legend is a plugin for Wordpress 2.0 that allows you to display the ALT text of an image as its caption.
\nUpdated Today displays a banner in the upper left corner of your blog when the date of the last post matches todays date, therefore telling the visitor that your blog has been updated today.
";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/20";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/20/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0420/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110670378/";s:11:"description";s:602:"Vinto Tinto is a two column dark WordPress theme based on K2.
\nCalmBlue is a 2 column light blue/white wordpress theme.
\nSly Wordpress theme designed with a three column fixed layout as an online magazine style. Two mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. One loop in the sidebar showing two posts, one loop in the main area showing one post.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:30:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:602:"Vinto Tinto is a two column dark WordPress theme based on K2.
\nCalmBlue is a 2 column light blue/white wordpress theme.
\nSly Wordpress theme designed with a three column fixed layout as an online magazine style. Two mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. One loop in the sidebar showing two posts, one loop in the main area showing one post.
";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Dougal Campbell: Plugin Management";s:4:"guid";s:59:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/20/plugin-management";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/20/plugin-management";s:11:"description";s:1622:"\nOne of the new features in the upcoming WordPress 2.2 release is an option to "Deactivate All Plugins" with one click. Our standard advice is to deactivate all your plugins before upgrading so that out-of-date plugins won''t break your system mid-upgrade. But in the past, you had to deactivate plugins one at a time. Thus the new "Deactivate All Plugins" button to make this easier.\n
\n\nWhile testing some things on my development system, I was frustrated that after an upgrade, I still had to reactivate my plugins one by one. So I threw together a "Reactivate All Plugins" feature, which I hope will be implemented for the release of WordPress 2.2. \n
\n\nWith this patch, when you use "Deactivate All Plugins", your current active plugins list is saved. Then later, when you attempt to "Reactivate All Plugins", it will check each plugin one-by-one. The worst that could happen is if one of your old plugins throws a PHP fatal error, then the reactivation is aborted, and no plugins are reactivated. Simpler errors, like a plugin being deleted from disk between the deactivation and reactivation, are handled more gracefully -- the valid plugins will be reactivated, and the missing ones will be reported to you.\n
\n";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:30:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:1622:"\nOne of the new features in the upcoming WordPress 2.2 release is an option to "Deactivate All Plugins" with one click. Our standard advice is to deactivate all your plugins before upgrading so that out-of-date plugins won''t break your system mid-upgrade. But in the past, you had to deactivate plugins one at a time. Thus the new "Deactivate All Plugins" button to make this easier.\n
\n\nWhile testing some things on my development system, I was frustrated that after an upgrade, I still had to reactivate my plugins one by one. So I threw together a "Reactivate All Plugins" feature, which I hope will be implemented for the release of WordPress 2.2. \n
\n\nWith this patch, when you use "Deactivate All Plugins", your current active plugins list is saved. Then later, when you attempt to "Reactivate All Plugins", it will check each plugin one-by-one. The worst that could happen is if one of your old plugins throws a PHP fatal error, then the reactivation is aborted, and no plugins are reactivated. Simpler errors, like a plugin being deleted from disk between the deactivation and reactivation, are handled more gracefully -- the valid plugins will be reactivated, and the missing ones will be reported to you.\n
\n";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Weblog Tools Collection: Various News for 4/20";s:4:"guid";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/20/various-news-for-520/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110620163/";s:11:"description";s:1900:"[EDIT] Thanks for the catch, the date was wrong. Links remain same, but the date changed.
\n10 Rules for your Small Business Website: Having worked for a small business for some time and with Wordpress being such a widely used tool for building small business websites, I think most of these are well thought out and make a lot of sense. My ex-employers website violates almost every rule mentioned.
\nSpotback provides you with a small script to embed on your posts to provide centralized and socialized ranking for almost anything. Visitors will also receive personalized referrals and recommendations from your site or blog. No Wordpress plugin available but I am sure the plugin programmers out there can whip something up quite easily with the Wordpress hooks available.
\nPerils of Problogging ia points out the Perils of “Problogging” and when I was notified of the entry, I almost felt like I was being singled out. Food for thought.
\nJS-Kit is another centralized ratings widget with commenting built in. Not sure how the commenting would help Wordpress bloggers but the ratings widgets are quite nice. However, the commenting/ratings widget might be used for static HTML pages quite conveniently and since JS-Kit uses Akismet to mitigate Spam, comments are bound to be spam free.
\nAmatomu and Afrigator are Two African blog aggregators with a variety of feed and channel features built in. I was pleasantly surprised to see the volume and quality of blogging activity going on in that subcontinent.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:45:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:1900:"[EDIT] Thanks for the catch, the date was wrong. Links remain same, but the date changed.
\n10 Rules for your Small Business Website: Having worked for a small business for some time and with Wordpress being such a widely used tool for building small business websites, I think most of these are well thought out and make a lot of sense. My ex-employers website violates almost every rule mentioned.
\nSpotback provides you with a small script to embed on your posts to provide centralized and socialized ranking for almost anything. Visitors will also receive personalized referrals and recommendations from your site or blog. No Wordpress plugin available but I am sure the plugin programmers out there can whip something up quite easily with the Wordpress hooks available.
\nPerils of Problogging ia points out the Perils of “Problogging” and when I was notified of the entry, I almost felt like I was being singled out. Food for thought.
\nJS-Kit is another centralized ratings widget with commenting built in. Not sure how the commenting would help Wordpress bloggers but the ratings widgets are quite nice. However, the commenting/ratings widget might be used for static HTML pages quite conveniently and since JS-Kit uses Akismet to mitigate Spam, comments are bound to be spam free.
\nAmatomu and Afrigator are Two African blog aggregators with a variety of feed and channel features built in. I was pleasantly surprised to see the volume and quality of blogging activity going on in that subcontinent.
";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:40:"Weblog Tools Collection: APAD in Chinese";s:4:"guid";s:69:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/19/apad-in-chinese/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110452149/";s:11:"description";s:252:"A Plugin A Day (APAD) in Chinese: Denis had asked to be able to translate our APAD series into Chinese and you can read the fruits of his labor at his blog.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:46:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:252:"A Plugin A Day (APAD) in Chinese: Denis had asked to be able to translate our APAD series into Chinese and you can read the fruits of his labor at his blog.
";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: APAD: Author Adsense";s:4:"guid";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/19/apad-author-adsense/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110418671/";s:11:"description";s:2134:"Plugin Name
\nAuthor Adsense
Plugin Page
\nhttp://www.kinkydress.com/php-scripts/author-adsense/
Description
\nThis plugin allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue.
Features
\n- Ability to set ratio of author to admin ads
\n- Default fallback to admin Publisher ID in case authors’ ID is blank
My Review
\nI decided to test this plugin on my technology blog since I am thinking of opening it up to other authors.
Installing the plugin is normal. You can set the admin publisher ID and individual authors can set their IDs in WP-Admin itself, which ensures that there is no messy editing of files.
\nAdmins can set the ratio of how much their ads are displayed to that of author ads. However, one feature lacking is to customize this ratio by user. Currently you’re stuck with a fixed ratio, so you can’t give your better performing users higher preference over others.
\nThis plugin requires editing of your template files. The editing is minor, though I did run into a problem when running multiple ads. Instead of following the instructions on the plugin page, I used the same code for all the ads and it worked perfectly.
\nThis is indeed a very useful tool if you wish to compensate your authors but don’t want to handle the payments yourself, but instead let the authors work talk for itself.
\ne.g. if any author gets major traffic to his/her post, then the revenue that can be got can be really phenomenal.
It also works well on the admins point of view as he can get a cut of the money earned.
\nFor authors it works well because since your displaying your ad, it is Google infact who will be paying you.
\nOverall an easy to use plugin that “pays off”. However, single users would know that it is of no use to them.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:01:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2134:"Plugin Name
\nAuthor Adsense
Plugin Page
\nhttp://www.kinkydress.com/php-scripts/author-adsense/
Description
\nThis plugin allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue.
Features
\n- Ability to set ratio of author to admin ads
\n- Default fallback to admin Publisher ID in case authors’ ID is blank
My Review
\nI decided to test this plugin on my technology blog since I am thinking of opening it up to other authors.
Installing the plugin is normal. You can set the admin publisher ID and individual authors can set their IDs in WP-Admin itself, which ensures that there is no messy editing of files.
\nAdmins can set the ratio of how much their ads are displayed to that of author ads. However, one feature lacking is to customize this ratio by user. Currently you’re stuck with a fixed ratio, so you can’t give your better performing users higher preference over others.
\nThis plugin requires editing of your template files. The editing is minor, though I did run into a problem when running multiple ads. Instead of following the instructions on the plugin page, I used the same code for all the ads and it worked perfectly.
\nThis is indeed a very useful tool if you wish to compensate your authors but don’t want to handle the payments yourself, but instead let the authors work talk for itself.
\ne.g. if any author gets major traffic to his/her post, then the revenue that can be got can be really phenomenal.
It also works well on the admins point of view as he can get a cut of the money earned.
\nFor authors it works well because since your displaying your ad, it is Google infact who will be paying you.
\nOverall an easy to use plugin that “pays off”. However, single users would know that it is of no use to them.
";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Dougal Campbell: WP Tags: Perhaps I spoke too soon…";s:4:"guid";s:74:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/19/wp-tags-perhaps-i-spoke-too-soon";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/19/wp-tags-perhaps-i-spoke-too-soon";s:11:"description";s:728:"\nDoh. I should have caught up on my wp-hackers reading before I made that last post. It appears that we''re going to delay the tags support until version 2.3 in order to have more time to flesh out all the details properly. Instead, it appears that sidebar widgets may become an official core addition in WP 2.2. Stay tuned for more details...\n
\n";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:49:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:728:"\nDoh. I should have caught up on my wp-hackers reading before I made that last post. It appears that we''re going to delay the tags support until version 2.3 in order to have more time to flesh out all the details properly. Instead, it appears that sidebar widgets may become an official core addition in WP 2.2. Stay tuned for more details...\n
\n";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/19";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/19/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0419/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110399429/";s:11:"description";s:1580:"Orange and Maroon Web Effect is two column theme based on the Yahoo! UI for cross browser stability and functionality, 950px wide, has a widgetized sidebar, tested in Safari, Firefox and IE6 and uses official Virginia Tech colors. The theme also has a memorial 04.16.2007 banner.
\nModern Paper is a three column theme ideal for journalism sites.
\nOrganic is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme based a template by Free CSS Templates.
\nSly is a three column, fixed width, widget ready theme.
\nIntraBlog is a subtle, neat and clean, white, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a right sidebar and a professional look. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nWordpress Gray Bird is a 2 column, widget ready theme with a sidebar on the right. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nGreen Delight is a two column, green and white widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:45:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1580:"Orange and Maroon Web Effect is two column theme based on the Yahoo! UI for cross browser stability and functionality, 950px wide, has a widgetized sidebar, tested in Safari, Firefox and IE6 and uses official Virginia Tech colors. The theme also has a memorial 04.16.2007 banner.
\nModern Paper is a three column theme ideal for journalism sites.
\nOrganic is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme based a template by Free CSS Templates.
\nSly is a three column, fixed width, widget ready theme.
\nIntraBlog is a subtle, neat and clean, white, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a right sidebar and a professional look. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nWordpress Gray Bird is a 2 column, widget ready theme with a sidebar on the right. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nGreen Delight is a two column, green and white widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.2 Delayed";s:4:"guid";s:62:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/19/wordpress-22-delayed";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/04/19/wordpress-22-delayed";s:11:"description";s:3729:"\nA while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer "big" new features in each release. The target for WordPress 2.2 was set for around April 23.\n
\n\nOne of the new features in WordPress 2.2 is ''tags''. For any of you who still don''t know what tags are, they are basically keywords that you can put on posts. It''s similar to categories, but the idea is that tags are intended to be more generalized and free-form, and less formal than a category system. When tags appear on your posts or your RSS/Atom feeds, they are marked up in a way that they can be detected by search engines, allowing them to index your content in a more meaningful way, and even allowing you to cross reference data across multiple services which share the same tags. Some of the most popular applications that use tags are Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us.\n
\n\nRecently on the wp-hackers mailing list, there was a flurry of technical discussion about the underlying implementation of the WP tags system. I won''t bore you with the details (see the mailing list archives if you''re interested, it basically started with Knut-Olav Hoven''s post and really took off with Robert Deaton''s proposal, but there were several other related threads, including Matt''s rationale for the first implementation and Ryan''s proposal for a replacement), but the result of the conversation was that the tags system is getting a serious under-the-hood overhaul. The new system is going to be extremely flexible, and will even allow plugins to define their own taxonomies (which basically means that they could have their own private set of tags, separate from the main system or from other plugins). \n
\n\nBut, since these changes have come about so close to the scheduled release date, the developers have decided to push the release back by "a week or two", according to Matt. I have a feeling that this will definitely be worth it in the long run. The improved tags API and underlying database schema are going to open a lot of interesting doors for plugin developers\n
\n\nThis whole process has been a great example of the WordPress development community at work. The decision to implement tags came about because it''s one of the most popular topics on WordPress Ideas, and the re-engineering and subsequent decision to spend more time on it came about because of discussions on one of the mailing lists. That''s how an Open Source project is supposed to work, and it''s great to see the process succeed.\n
\n";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:03:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:3729:"\nA while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer "big" new features in each release. The target for WordPress 2.2 was set for around April 23.\n
\n\nOne of the new features in WordPress 2.2 is ''tags''. For any of you who still don''t know what tags are, they are basically keywords that you can put on posts. It''s similar to categories, but the idea is that tags are intended to be more generalized and free-form, and less formal than a category system. When tags appear on your posts or your RSS/Atom feeds, they are marked up in a way that they can be detected by search engines, allowing them to index your content in a more meaningful way, and even allowing you to cross reference data across multiple services which share the same tags. Some of the most popular applications that use tags are Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us.\n
\n\nRecently on the wp-hackers mailing list, there was a flurry of technical discussion about the underlying implementation of the WP tags system. I won''t bore you with the details (see the mailing list archives if you''re interested, it basically started with Knut-Olav Hoven''s post and really took off with Robert Deaton''s proposal, but there were several other related threads, including Matt''s rationale for the first implementation and Ryan''s proposal for a replacement), but the result of the conversation was that the tags system is getting a serious under-the-hood overhaul. The new system is going to be extremely flexible, and will even allow plugins to define their own taxonomies (which basically means that they could have their own private set of tags, separate from the main system or from other plugins). \n
\n\nBut, since these changes have come about so close to the scheduled release date, the developers have decided to push the release back by "a week or two", according to Matt. I have a feeling that this will definitely be worth it in the long run. The improved tags API and underlying database schema are going to open a lot of interesting doors for plugin developers\n
\n\nThis whole process has been a great example of the WordPress development community at work. The decision to implement tags came about because it''s one of the most popular topics on WordPress Ideas, and the re-engineering and subsequent decision to spend more time on it came about because of discussions on one of the mailing lists. That''s how an Open Source project is supposed to work, and it''s great to see the process succeed.\n
\n";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Lorelle on WP: WordPress 2.2 Delayed";s:4:"guid";s:61:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/wordpress-22-delayed/";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/wordpress-22-delayed/";s:11:"description";s:4746:"
The next major WordPress release was to be April 23rd and Matt Mullenweg has announced a delay.
Several of the new features, including the addition of tags, has proven to be a little more complex and trouble in the final testing phase than originally thought. They are hard at work fixing things and the announcement of the new release will come soon.
\nThe list of new features and improvements is impressive, though. Here are some highlights of what to expect:
\nI will have more information soon on the new tagging feature, as soon as they finish implementing and finalizing the process. Just to let all the fans of the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin know, they are working hard on making it compatible, allowing easy importing of the tags into the new tagging system.
\nSo far, there is no hard estimate on when the new release will be out as the decision was just made today.
\nCurrently, 216 features, bugs, and fixes are closed on WordPress 2.2 . For more information on what to expect in upcoming versions of WordPress, see the Wordpress Roadmap.
\nFor more news on WordPress, see WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.2 Due Monday, Sponsored WordPress Themes, WordPress.com Splog Fighter, and More.
\nSite Search Tags: wordpress, wordpress news, wordpress release, wordpress version, wordpress 2.2, new wordpress, wordpress update
Copyright Lorelle VanFossen, member of the 9Rules Network Subscribe Via Feedburner Subscribe by Email
The next major WordPress release was to be April 23rd and Matt Mullenweg has announced a delay.
Several of the new features, including the addition of tags, has proven to be a little more complex and trouble in the final testing phase than originally thought. They are hard at work fixing things and the announcement of the new release will come soon.
\nThe list of new features and improvements is impressive, though. Here are some highlights of what to expect:
\nI will have more information soon on the new tagging feature, as soon as they finish implementing and finalizing the process. Just to let all the fans of the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin know, they are working hard on making it compatible, allowing easy importing of the tags into the new tagging system.
\nSo far, there is no hard estimate on when the new release will be out as the decision was just made today.
\nCurrently, 216 features, bugs, and fixes are closed on WordPress 2.2 . For more information on what to expect in upcoming versions of WordPress, see the Wordpress Roadmap.
\nFor more news on WordPress, see WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.2 Due Monday, Sponsored WordPress Themes, WordPress.com Splog Fighter, and More.
\nSite Search Tags: wordpress, wordpress news, wordpress release, wordpress version, wordpress 2.2, new wordpress, wordpress update
Copyright Lorelle VanFossen, member of the 9Rules Network Subscribe Via Feedburner Subscribe by Email
The WP dev team has decided to hold back version 2.2 for at least a week or two from the original date of April 23 while we polish things up. I’ll post an updated release date as soon as we figure out how long everything is going to take. (Which is extra-hard in open source development.)
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:37:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:301:"The WP dev team has decided to hold back version 2.2 for at least a week or two from the original date of April 23 while we polish things up. I’ll post an updated release date as soon as we figure out how long everything is going to take. (Which is extra-hard in open source development.)
";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Alex King: Housekeeping";s:4:"guid";s:48:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/18/housekeeping";s:4:"link";s:48:"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/04/18/housekeeping";s:11:"description";s:3531:"I fixed two issues that have been problems on this site since I launched the new site back in November:
\nThe first issue was a little tricky. I had a pretty good guess what the problem was, but didn’t know where to look to fix it. I mentioned this while chatting with Matt on Monday night and he knew right away what needed to be done.
\nBasically, I use the hooks in the permalinks to create custom URLs on this site to simulate having 2 separate blogs (the main blog and the golf blog). I then use the hooks in the query parsing to route the custom URLs to the proper places. The piece I was missing was also accounting for my custom URLs in the url_to_postid function. There wasn’t a hook in there, so I’ve submitted a patch to add one. I believe this will be accepted for 2.2.
Once I was receiving pingbacks properly again, I hacked up a little script to re-send pingbacks to my own site from posts that I’d added since the re-design. Basically, I just did a query in the database for posts with links to my site, put the pingback function in a loop for those posts and re-sent the pings to my site (just the pings to my site).
If you use custom URLs, you need to account for them in 3 places:
\nurl_to_postid code.I’ve now got all ~200 or so internal pingbacks added in to my site. The dates aren’t right, but you can’t have everything.
The second issue is somewhat moot as it doesn’t exist in the upcoming WP 2.2 codeline, however a small hack around the if have_posts() call in the wp-commentsrss2.php file seems to have fixed it up until I upgrade to 2.2.
These things have bugged me for months but I was busy with other things, I’m very glad to finally have them fixed.\n
\n\n ";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:23:29 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:3531:"I fixed two issues that have been problems on this site since I launched the new site back in November:
\nThe first issue was a little tricky. I had a pretty good guess what the problem was, but didn’t know where to look to fix it. I mentioned this while chatting with Matt on Monday night and he knew right away what needed to be done.
\nBasically, I use the hooks in the permalinks to create custom URLs on this site to simulate having 2 separate blogs (the main blog and the golf blog). I then use the hooks in the query parsing to route the custom URLs to the proper places. The piece I was missing was also accounting for my custom URLs in the url_to_postid function. There wasn’t a hook in there, so I’ve submitted a patch to add one. I believe this will be accepted for 2.2.
Once I was receiving pingbacks properly again, I hacked up a little script to re-send pingbacks to my own site from posts that I’d added since the re-design. Basically, I just did a query in the database for posts with links to my site, put the pingback function in a loop for those posts and re-sent the pings to my site (just the pings to my site).
If you use custom URLs, you need to account for them in 3 places:
\nurl_to_postid code.I’ve now got all ~200 or so internal pingbacks added in to my site. The dates aren’t right, but you can’t have everything.
The second issue is somewhat moot as it doesn’t exist in the upcoming WP 2.2 codeline, however a small hack around the if have_posts() call in the wp-commentsrss2.php file seems to have fixed it up until I upgrade to 2.2.
These things have bugged me for months but I was busy with other things, I’m very glad to finally have them fixed.\n
\n\n ";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: APAD: Live Comment Preview";s:4:"guid";s:79:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/18/apad-live-comment-preview/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110136318/";s:11:"description";s:1724:"Plugin Name:
\nLive Comment Preview
Plugin Page:
\nhttp://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/LiveCommentPreview
Description:
\nLive Comment Preview is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
\nReview:
\nLive Comment Preview is not a necessary plugin for your blog, but it is definitely one which enhances your user experience a great deal.
\nIt performs the simple job of displaying a preview while the commenter is typing the comment. It thus provides a simple method for the user to check how his comment will appear on your blog.
\nThe installation of the plugin is extremely easy; all you have to do is upload the plugin and activate it. You may need to manually add code to your theme file, if it lacks the necessary code.
\nHowever, the true power of the plugin is released if you customize its output to display exactly as the comment would appear on the blog. This will require you to add some CSS to your style.css. You can go one step further as to decide what exactly displays to the visitor.
\nThe only caveat is a slight slowdown in loading time. Additionally, it can cause a minor flickering on the screen as the user types his/her comments out.
\nWill end this review with a small tip. Add the code manually, just before the textarea (the box in which the comment is typed out) of your comment. This ensures that the commenter will see the comment as he/she is typing it out. Placing it below the textarea or the submit button has a greater chance of the live preview not being visible.
Plugin Name:
\nLive Comment Preview
Plugin Page:
\nhttp://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/LiveCommentPreview
Description:
\nLive Comment Preview is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
\nReview:
\nLive Comment Preview is not a necessary plugin for your blog, but it is definitely one which enhances your user experience a great deal.
\nIt performs the simple job of displaying a preview while the commenter is typing the comment. It thus provides a simple method for the user to check how his comment will appear on your blog.
\nThe installation of the plugin is extremely easy; all you have to do is upload the plugin and activate it. You may need to manually add code to your theme file, if it lacks the necessary code.
\nHowever, the true power of the plugin is released if you customize its output to display exactly as the comment would appear on the blog. This will require you to add some CSS to your style.css. You can go one step further as to decide what exactly displays to the visitor.
\nThe only caveat is a slight slowdown in loading time. Additionally, it can cause a minor flickering on the screen as the user types his/her comments out.
\nWill end this review with a small tip. Add the code manually, just before the textarea (the box in which the comment is typed out) of your comment. This ensures that the commenter will see the comment as he/she is typing it out. Placing it below the textarea or the submit button has a greater chance of the live preview not being visible.
Comment Email Responder provides a simple method to automatically email commenters whenever the blog’s administrator responds to their comments.
\nComment Rankings displays stars in a post’s comments next to the comment’s author. Each star represented 10 comments that the author had made on the blog so far.
\nList Subpages with Description lists a Wordpress Page’s subpages in an unordered list with a description of each one.
\nBlock Countries uses the IP2Country database to easily enable you to block certain countries from your blog.
\nAvailability Calendar and Booking Management provides property booking management functionality to the administration area of Wordpress and can output a fully customisable availability calendar, as well as public and private RSS and iCal feeds.
\nDF FileConf is a plugin to be used when you are moving your blog to a different url. DF FileConf prevents the configuration update until you are confident that your changes are correct.
\nhiClip Webcam Plugin allows you to record and publish video/audio with your webcam in Wordpress admin panel. (Page in German)
\nDDay allows you to set unlimited event countdowns to or countups from an event. (Page in French)
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:30:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1871:"Comment Email Responder provides a simple method to automatically email commenters whenever the blog’s administrator responds to their comments.
\nComment Rankings displays stars in a post’s comments next to the comment’s author. Each star represented 10 comments that the author had made on the blog so far.
\nList Subpages with Description lists a Wordpress Page’s subpages in an unordered list with a description of each one.
\nBlock Countries uses the IP2Country database to easily enable you to block certain countries from your blog.
\nAvailability Calendar and Booking Management provides property booking management functionality to the administration area of Wordpress and can output a fully customisable availability calendar, as well as public and private RSS and iCal feeds.
\nDF FileConf is a plugin to be used when you are moving your blog to a different url. DF FileConf prevents the configuration update until you are confident that your changes are correct.
\nhiClip Webcam Plugin allows you to record and publish video/audio with your webcam in Wordpress admin panel. (Page in German)
\nDDay allows you to set unlimited event countdowns to or countups from an event. (Page in French)
";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/18";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/18/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0418/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/110125303/";s:11:"description";s:3079:"Cubes is a two column, fluid width, blue theme with big fonts.
\n2Colours is a WordPress theme designed with a three column fixed layout magazine style. Three mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. Additional footer, Sweet titles and flickr RSS support built in.
\nQPwilm is a three column, widget ready theme in shades of blue, white and gray.
\nAqueous Plus is a highly customizable, two column theme with sidebar widget support and auto update features.
\nHatschimi is a two colummn widget ready WordPress theme with a nice pattern in the background, a drawing of the face of the mysterious ancient creature Hatschimi.
\nIndependance Day is a clean 2 column red, white, and blue theme.
\nMinimal Web 2.0 is a Black, white, and blue theme, with 2 columns. (Contains Credit/Sponsored Link)
\nDubai is a blue, fixed width, widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nRockin Clouds is a two column, widget ready, WordPress theme with blue and white colors with orange highlights (Contains Sponsored Links).
\nReallyRealEstate is a two column, fixed width, blue and white theme. (Contains Sponsored Links).
\nJsasuke is a three column, widget ready, red, green and black theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nPlain2 is a two column, fixed width, blue and white, widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nDeserted is a new black, brown, rust, and grey colored, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a right sidebar and a beautiful nature header image. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nAbacus is a Web 2.0 style, widget-ready, two column and fixed width theme with awesome header,stylish colors and BIG FONTS. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nSeaCliff is a sleek, two column blue theme with configurable style and navigation and support for widgets. (Contains Sponsored Links)
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:15:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3079:"Cubes is a two column, fluid width, blue theme with big fonts.
\n2Colours is a WordPress theme designed with a three column fixed layout magazine style. Three mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. Additional footer, Sweet titles and flickr RSS support built in.
\nQPwilm is a three column, widget ready theme in shades of blue, white and gray.
\nAqueous Plus is a highly customizable, two column theme with sidebar widget support and auto update features.
\nHatschimi is a two colummn widget ready WordPress theme with a nice pattern in the background, a drawing of the face of the mysterious ancient creature Hatschimi.
\nIndependance Day is a clean 2 column red, white, and blue theme.
\nMinimal Web 2.0 is a Black, white, and blue theme, with 2 columns. (Contains Credit/Sponsored Link)
\nDubai is a blue, fixed width, widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nRockin Clouds is a two column, widget ready, WordPress theme with blue and white colors with orange highlights (Contains Sponsored Links).
\nReallyRealEstate is a two column, fixed width, blue and white theme. (Contains Sponsored Links).
\nJsasuke is a three column, widget ready, red, green and black theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nPlain2 is a two column, fixed width, blue and white, widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nDeserted is a new black, brown, rust, and grey colored, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a right sidebar and a beautiful nature header image. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nAbacus is a Web 2.0 style, widget-ready, two column and fixed width theme with awesome header,stylish colors and BIG FONTS. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nSeaCliff is a sleek, two column blue theme with configurable style and navigation and support for widgets. (Contains Sponsored Links)
";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Matt: Cumulative Advantage";s:4:"guid";s:53:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/17/cumulative-advantage/";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/17/cumulative-advantage/";s:11:"description";s:457:"Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? An interesting series of tests where they show that commercial success is mostly a function of chance and early adoption, not quality. I wonder if the same holds true for software and websites? (Youtube?)
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:22:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:457:"Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? An interesting series of tests where they show that commercial success is mostly a function of chance and early adoption, not quality. I wonder if the same holds true for software and websites? (Youtube?)
";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Matt: Vista, SSD, and Sound";s:4:"guid";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/17/vista-ssd-and-sound/";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/17/vista-ssd-and-sound/";s:11:"description";s:3149:"So I managed to snag a 32gb flash solid state drive. (Here’s a picture.) I personally think SSDs are the future and a computer sold with a regular hard disk in five years will seem as quaint as selling one with a tape drive is today. However the technology is still really early, as evidenced by the difficulty I had obtaining one, the cost, and the relatively small storage size (larger sizes are promised or announced, but only 32GB is commercially available). 32gb is more than enough for my primary HD, as anything heavy I can store on a cheap and slow SATA drive or on the network.
\nI spend a lot of time on my desktop, so I’m fairly sensitive to the speed of things there. I year or so ago I upgraded to a Western Digital 10k Raptor SATA drive and I was pleasantly surprised by the speed boost, more than I normally get from upgrading the CPU. So I thought the SSD would be a nice chance to refresh my desktop and also do a clean install of Windows Vista, which I’ve had laying around. I decided not to touch the CPU, memory, or graphics card, which are a FX-55, 4gb, and Radeon X800 respectively. Installing the SSD was easy, I just needed an IDE converter because it is laptop size.
First off, I like Vista better than Windows XP. There are just a lot of little things, like when you press Windows + M it minimizes windows on both monitors, that are a lot more polished. Also, thanks to the SSD, install and boot times are incredibly fast. Launching programs also feels snappier. The visual effects seem fine on my slightly-old video card, and in general everything feels great. There is also a benefit to wiping the OS and starting with a fresh, I probably had some cruft accumulated before which may have contributed to a slowdown. I don’t know if Vista is worth an upgrade, but if you’re going to start fresh I would go for it.
\nI have run into two problem, one large and one small. First, about 24 hours after I had set things up, I came back to the computer and it said it had rebooted to recover from a “blue screen” error. I have no idea what caused this, but it hasn’t happened since.
\nMore importantly though, something is seriously wrong with the sound. System sounds, and playing music through iTunes or Windows Media sounds great… for about 5 minutes. At some seemingly random point all the sound switches to this really awful distortion which is painful to the ear. When this happens I have to close the application that was playing sound, be it a Youtube video in Firefox or an MP3 in Windows Media, and restart the application for any sound on the computer to return to normal. This sucks. I’m just using the standard nForce sound card built into my motherboard, nothing fancy, and according to Vista it can’t find a better driver for it. I’ve googled around a lot but can’t find anyone with a similar problem, but if I figure out a fix I’ll update this entry to help future net searchers.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:20:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:3149:"So I managed to snag a 32gb flash solid state drive. (Here’s a picture.) I personally think SSDs are the future and a computer sold with a regular hard disk in five years will seem as quaint as selling one with a tape drive is today. However the technology is still really early, as evidenced by the difficulty I had obtaining one, the cost, and the relatively small storage size (larger sizes are promised or announced, but only 32GB is commercially available). 32gb is more than enough for my primary HD, as anything heavy I can store on a cheap and slow SATA drive or on the network.
\nI spend a lot of time on my desktop, so I’m fairly sensitive to the speed of things there. I year or so ago I upgraded to a Western Digital 10k Raptor SATA drive and I was pleasantly surprised by the speed boost, more than I normally get from upgrading the CPU. So I thought the SSD would be a nice chance to refresh my desktop and also do a clean install of Windows Vista, which I’ve had laying around. I decided not to touch the CPU, memory, or graphics card, which are a FX-55, 4gb, and Radeon X800 respectively. Installing the SSD was easy, I just needed an IDE converter because it is laptop size.
First off, I like Vista better than Windows XP. There are just a lot of little things, like when you press Windows + M it minimizes windows on both monitors, that are a lot more polished. Also, thanks to the SSD, install and boot times are incredibly fast. Launching programs also feels snappier. The visual effects seem fine on my slightly-old video card, and in general everything feels great. There is also a benefit to wiping the OS and starting with a fresh, I probably had some cruft accumulated before which may have contributed to a slowdown. I don’t know if Vista is worth an upgrade, but if you’re going to start fresh I would go for it.
\nI have run into two problem, one large and one small. First, about 24 hours after I had set things up, I came back to the computer and it said it had rebooted to recover from a “blue screen” error. I have no idea what caused this, but it hasn’t happened since.
\nMore importantly though, something is seriously wrong with the sound. System sounds, and playing music through iTunes or Windows Media sounds great… for about 5 minutes. At some seemingly random point all the sound switches to this really awful distortion which is painful to the ear. When this happens I have to close the application that was playing sound, be it a Youtube video in Firefox or an MP3 in Windows Media, and restart the application for any sound on the computer to return to normal. This sucks. I’m just using the standard nForce sound card built into my motherboard, nothing fancy, and according to Vista it can’t find a better driver for it. I’ve googled around a lot but can’t find anyone with a similar problem, but if I figure out a fix I’ll update this entry to help future net searchers.
";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Lorelle on WP: April 30: A Day of Silence on the Blogosphere";s:4:"guid";s:85:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/april-30-a-day-of-silence-on-the-blogosphere/";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/april-30-a-day-of-silence-on-the-blogosphere/";s:11:"description";s:1587:"According to OneDayBlogSilence.com:
\n\nSilence can say more then a thousand words.
\nThis day shall unite us all about this unbelievable painful & shocking event and show some respect and love to those who lost their loved ones.
\nOn April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor towards the victims of Virginia. 33 died at the US college massacre.
\nThe Blogosphere is in deep mourning.
\nAll you have to do is spread the word about it and post the graphic on your blog on 30th April 2007. No words and no comments. Just respect and empathy.
Having lived in the Middle East where people die every day, through the actions of governments, terrorists believing this will change things, and people fed up with living who want to take innocents with them when they go, and watching a world choose violence as a method of communication and interaction, I hope this day of silence will be extended to all those who die needlessly and for the ones who never get such tributes around the world.
\nUpdate: Here is my opinion on this event: Silence is a Memoriam, Not a Reason to Stop Blogging.
\n
According to OneDayBlogSilence.com:
\n\nSilence can say more then a thousand words.
\nThis day shall unite us all about this unbelievable painful & shocking event and show some respect and love to those who lost their loved ones.
\nOn April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor towards the victims of Virginia. 33 died at the US college massacre.
\nThe Blogosphere is in deep mourning.
\nAll you have to do is spread the word about it and post the graphic on your blog on 30th April 2007. No words and no comments. Just respect and empathy.
Having lived in the Middle East where people die every day, through the actions of governments, terrorists believing this will change things, and people fed up with living who want to take innocents with them when they go, and watching a world choose violence as a method of communication and interaction, I hope this day of silence will be extended to all those who die needlessly and for the ones who never get such tributes around the world.
\nUpdate: Here is my opinion on this event: Silence is a Memoriam, Not a Reason to Stop Blogging.
\n
Name:
\nSnap Shots Plugin (Formery Snap Preview Anywhere)
Plugin Page:
\nSnap Shots Plugin
\n
Description:
\nThis plugin, now in version 1.3, lets you display small thumbnails for your linked pages. This plugin received a lot of attention since it first was released and has been downloaded over 10,000 times. Snap Shots is currently also available on Wordpress.com
Features:
\nChangelog Version 1.3:
\nFuture Plans:
\nReview
\nInstallation is as simple as downloading the plugin, uploading it to your wp-content/plugins folder (the plugin comes in its own folder, the complete folder should be uploaded), and activating it through your admin interface. You will also need to signup for Snap Shots and generate the code. In the code you will find a 32-digit parameter that follows key=. This will be needed for configuring the display. Once you find this code and add it in the admin, you should be all set. The plugin takes care of everything else and you should be able to hover your mouse above any link on your blog and see the Snap Shot.
It seems that Snap Shots are a matter of taste. A lot of people like them and continue to use them while some have felt that the hover boxes are distractions or just do not belong on blogs. I can see where this would be really useful for theme authors who want to display small screenshots of their linked themes without cluttering up the whole page. Photo blogs can also make good use of this plugin.
\nIf you like the previews, this plugin is the way to add them to your Wordpress blog!
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:15:18 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:3010:"Name:
\nSnap Shots Plugin (Formery Snap Preview Anywhere)
Plugin Page:
\nSnap Shots Plugin
\n
Description:
\nThis plugin, now in version 1.3, lets you display small thumbnails for your linked pages. This plugin received a lot of attention since it first was released and has been downloaded over 10,000 times. Snap Shots is currently also available on Wordpress.com
Features:
\nChangelog Version 1.3:
\nFuture Plans:
\nReview
\nInstallation is as simple as downloading the plugin, uploading it to your wp-content/plugins folder (the plugin comes in its own folder, the complete folder should be uploaded), and activating it through your admin interface. You will also need to signup for Snap Shots and generate the code. In the code you will find a 32-digit parameter that follows key=. This will be needed for configuring the display. Once you find this code and add it in the admin, you should be all set. The plugin takes care of everything else and you should be able to hover your mouse above any link on your blog and see the Snap Shot.
It seems that Snap Shots are a matter of taste. A lot of people like them and continue to use them while some have felt that the hover boxes are distractions or just do not belong on blogs. I can see where this would be really useful for theme authors who want to display small screenshots of their linked themes without cluttering up the whole page. Photo blogs can also make good use of this plugin.
\nIf you like the previews, this plugin is the way to add them to your Wordpress blog!
";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Akismet: MyBulletinBoard";s:4:"guid";s:51:"http://blog.akismet.com/2007/04/16/mybulletinboard/";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://blog.akismet.com/2007/04/16/mybulletinboard/";s:11:"description";s:350:"MyBulletinBoard now has an Akismet mod. I think the non-blog implementations of WordPress now outnumber the blog ones, it’s obvious that web spam is a very prevalent problem and I’m excited about all this new data coming from so many sources.
\nMyBulletinBoard now has an Akismet mod. I think the non-blog implementations of WordPress now outnumber the blog ones, it’s obvious that web spam is a very prevalent problem and I’m excited about all this new data coming from so many sources.
\nBuilding a better blogosphere, I was interviewed for the Sydney Morning Herald a few weeks back.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:34:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:208:"Building a better blogosphere, I was interviewed for the Sydney Morning Herald a few weeks back.
";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 04/16";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/16/wordpress-theme-releases-for-04116/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/109451463/";s:11:"description";s:2125:"Orange Cut is a Wordpress theme with stripes and blood oranges in the background with support for Simple Tagging and WordPress widgets.
\nTarski 1.4 is the latest version of the theme, now compatible with WPMU. Tarski is a two column, flexible, widget ready theme with inbuilt support for custom header images.
\nBlogging Simply is a simple, imageless, widget-ready, fluid, 3-column design. It’s beauty lies in its simplicity and soothing colors.
\nNewfangled is a new sleek, neat and clean, Fixed width, 3 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a left sidebar and a right sidebar. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\n3cWPTP is a 3 column blue and green widget ready theme with support for several plugins. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nCarbonated is a red, blue and white, fixed width, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a left sidebar. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\njSherina is a clean two column widget ready theme with a right sidebar. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nMuhummad Mubin Ahmed has released four Sponsored Themes named Ascetic Japan, Neon Buzz, Cool Forest, Abstract Green and Blunge.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:00:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2125:"Orange Cut is a Wordpress theme with stripes and blood oranges in the background with support for Simple Tagging and WordPress widgets.
\nTarski 1.4 is the latest version of the theme, now compatible with WPMU. Tarski is a two column, flexible, widget ready theme with inbuilt support for custom header images.
\nBlogging Simply is a simple, imageless, widget-ready, fluid, 3-column design. It’s beauty lies in its simplicity and soothing colors.
\nNewfangled is a new sleek, neat and clean, Fixed width, 3 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a left sidebar and a right sidebar. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\n3cWPTP is a 3 column blue and green widget ready theme with support for several plugins. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nCarbonated is a red, blue and white, fixed width, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a left sidebar. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\njSherina is a clean two column widget ready theme with a right sidebar. (Contains Sponsored Links)
\nMuhummad Mubin Ahmed has released four Sponsored Themes named Ascetic Japan, Neon Buzz, Cool Forest, Abstract Green and Blunge.
";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/16";s:4:"guid";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/16/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-04116/";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/109446959/";s:11:"description";s:1833:"Wordpress Plugin for Bengali Wordpressians allows you to write in Unijoy, Phonetic and Plain English mode.
\nCategory Order by Usage allows you to order categories based on the number of posts that they contain.
\nLogin Anywhere allows you to insert a login form anywhere in your blog (header, sidebar, etc.) by adding a function call to wherever you want the code to be generated. If the user is logged in, it will give them the option to logout.
\nTrackback List creates two functions that can be used to display the list of sites that link to your post (or page).
\nWith FAQ-Tastic you can make single page FAQs or an index Page with a question list linking to answer Pages.
\nEnhanced Contact Form adds a contact form to your site. Inbuilt spam protection and ability to send CCs.
\nNoIndex Feed prevents Yahoo! and Google from indexing a feed by adding a noindex meta tag to a feed.
\nMint Popular Posts uses information recorded by the Mint stats program (paid) to output a list of the most popular posts.
\npost2pdf converts all your posts in pdf files ready to download.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:45:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1833:"Wordpress Plugin for Bengali Wordpressians allows you to write in Unijoy, Phonetic and Plain English mode.
\nCategory Order by Usage allows you to order categories based on the number of posts that they contain.
\nLogin Anywhere allows you to insert a login form anywhere in your blog (header, sidebar, etc.) by adding a function call to wherever you want the code to be generated. If the user is logged in, it will give them the option to logout.
\nTrackback List creates two functions that can be used to display the list of sites that link to your post (or page).
\nWith FAQ-Tastic you can make single page FAQs or an index Page with a question list linking to answer Pages.
\nEnhanced Contact Form adds a contact form to your site. Inbuilt spam protection and ability to send CCs.
\nNoIndex Feed prevents Yahoo! and Google from indexing a feed by adding a noindex meta tag to a feed.
\nMint Popular Posts uses information recorded by the Mint stats program (paid) to output a list of the most popular posts.
\npost2pdf converts all your posts in pdf files ready to download.
";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Matt: NYC Meetup Pictures";s:4:"guid";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/16/nyc-meetup-pictures/";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://photomatt.net/2007/04/16/nyc-meetup-pictures/";s:11:"description";s:194:"Photos from the Meetup in NYC are up now. It was really enjoyable, NY has a really great group of WP folks.
";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:29:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:194:"Photos from the Meetup in NYC are up now. It was really enjoyable, NY has a really great group of WP folks.
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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.†Luke 4: 18-19
\r\n\r\n\r\n“Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.†Isaiah 1:17
\r\n\r\n\r\n“…[W]hatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.†Matthew 25:40\r\n\r\n
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In the winter of 2005, a small group of Christians in Boston and Cambridge began to meet to share the connection of faith and justice in their lives. We had each come to believe that the power to live out God’s mission in the world must come from Christians embracing social engagement, community and personal faith together. From these meetings grew the Boston Faith and Justice Network. In the summer of 2006, we kicked off our first set of action teams with a worship event at Tremont Temple.In the spring of 2006, justice-minded Christians gathered in homes around Boston to chart out a few courses of immediate action. Two topics emerged over and over again, and these issues evolved into our two current Action Teams: Global Poverty and Youth and Education.
\r\nGlobal Poverty
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Half the world — nearly 3 billion people — live on less than $2 a day.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the world''s poorest 48 countries (a quarter of the world''s nations) is less than the wealth of the world''s 3 richest individuals.
\r\nAccording to Unicef, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty.
\r\n\r\nShocked? We were. In addition to adopting and promoting the United Nations'' Millennium Development Goals, the Global Poverty Team focuses on ways Boston area Christians can reduce their consumption of needed world resources as well as ways to positively impact the lives of people and communities in developing\r\nnations. This action team meets monthly to analyze these issues from two perspectives:\r\n
Youth & Education\r\n\r\nA sad truth exists in Greater Boston with regards to education: Urban students in are performing far below state and national standards.\r\n\r\nConsider these startling statistics (click on them to read more):\r\n
The Youth and Education Team focuses on one central question:
\r\nWhat does it mean to be a community of Christians supporting all youth in learning and reaching their full potential?
\r\nThis action team meets monthly to discuss key issues related to education in Boston and coordinate community research meetings with local stakeholders in education: Emmanuel Gospel Center (Boston Education Collaborative), Boston Parent Organizing Network, Stand for Children, and the Black Ministerial Alliance (Education Action Project).\r\nEach member of the Youth and Education Action Team is encouraged to get involved in the life of at least one young person in Greater Boston, preferably who attends one of the public schools. We believe that educating young people is always a holistic project, with as much care for the body and spirit as for the the mind. We believe urban youth deserve an education at least on par with that of suburban youth, and that Christians must speak up on issues of inequality in the education system.
\r\nIf you''re interested in making a difference in the education of youth in Boston, or if you''d simply like to learn more, contact Lisa Brewer at faborama [at] yahoo [dot] com.
\r\nHere are some things I''ve been wrestling with lately.
This might be obvious, but the person of Christ is our model in service and ministry.
\r\nFrom John 1:
\r\nThe Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
\r\nHow can we “dwell among†our neighbors as fellow travelers in order to see transformation in their lives?
\r\nOr, consider this passage from Philippians 2:
\r\nYour attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus left the “success†and “greatness†of living in community with God and the Holy Spirit in Heaven to become one of us so that he could exemplify the redeemed life and continue to unveil God''s reign. How can we deny our ideas of “success†and “greatness†to take on the very nature of servants with the people we encounter?
\r\nI think we see Jesus meeting people on their turf – Zacchaeus, for example – to walk with them as they experienced life transformation. I’m convinced that we need to seriously consider how we more effectively and compassionately walk with people as they begin to trust Christ and let Him help them up out of the bondage they are experiencing.
\r\nI would suggest that little life transformation can happen with people outside of the context of relationship. Can we really chunk gospel seeds from afar and expect people''s lives to change? If this was possible, wouldn''t God have done this with us? Are we willing to, on some level, “become flesh†with people in order that they might experience holistic transformation in their lives?
\r\nFurthermore, can we begin to see our neighbors more for their assets than for their needs? To a large degree, these are people who have something to offer this world and desire dignity and purpose, but many of them have never been told they have worth and something to offer.
\r\nJesus did this, though, didn’t he? I love the story of Zacchaeus, a conniving and broken man. He was in a tree searching for Jesus, not unlike many people we come in contact with. Jesus didn’t scold him immediately for his previous actions, but said, in a sing-songy voice, I''m sure, “I’m-a-comin’ to your house to-day.†It was in the context of sharing a meal – one of the most intimate activities in the ancient world – that Jesus challenged Zacchaeus about a “different way.†He acknowledged Zacchaeus’ worth. He maintained his dignity. And as a result, life transformation occurred.
\r\nI am praying for more Christ-like eyes to see all people -- rich, middle-class, and poor -- with his eyes.
\r\nWill you join me in this prayer and on this journey?
\r\n— Steve H.
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Recently, someone expressed their fear that if we "focus too much on social justice, we''ll lose the proclamation of the gospel." This person''s concern was authentic and heart-felt, and I tried my best to communicate why I believe justice for the oppressed is at the very heart of our Heavenly Father, using verses like Deuteronomy 15, the book of Amos, etc. Back in March, many of us were convicted of exactly why the Christian is obligated to serve those who are broken and marginalized, genuinely working for their "freedom from bondage." Retired Gordon-Conwell professor Dr. Steven Mott spoke at a BFJN event on "Jesus and Justice." Mott worked from Jesus'' reading from the scroll in the temple in Luke 4:18-19, revealing what that reading would have meant to the Jews to whom he was speaking.\r\n\r\nJesus'' mission statement at the outset of his ministry (which was read from Isaiah 61:1-2) -- much like the book of Isaiah -- was dripping with "social justice" language. Mott said Christians have often translated Jesus'' words as being metaphorical for spiritual blindness or oppression, which Mott acknowledges is a part of it. But the undeniable translation of the passage, Mott proposes, is that Christ''s mission of restoring humanity to God included not only spiritual salvation and eternal life, but physical redemption and release from oppressive chains. (in fact, here''s an interesting fact: Jesus doesn''t quote in Luke 4 the one part of Isaiah 61 that is completely spiritual/emotional -- "bind up the brokenhearted") We, the people of God, are to follow Christ into the world, fighting for those in oppression and serving those in need. This is Christ''s heart.\r\nBlogs:
\r\n\r\nWhat I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.\r\nI had never read this short passage, or maybe my eyes skipped past it. Maybe I didn''t want to read it. But recently, for perhaps the first time, I read it.\r\n\r\n
There''s a harried tone in Paul''s writing. The status quo is gone. The kingdom of Christ is breaking in. Christ''s return is soon, relatively speaking. This verse is a call away from becoming "engrossed" in this old world. In, but not of. This verse challenges the American "virtue" (or curse?) of ownership -- if I worked for it, it''s mine. In the "already but not yet" kingdom of Christ, this world is not our home and our home (and car, and books, and money, and clothes...) is not ours.\r\n\r\nIs there a more pertinent message for North American Christians today? Haven''t many of us truly been trying to serve "both God and mammon (stuff)"? What would Christ tell some of us if we asked him what else we could do to "get in good" with him? Would we like his response, or would we walk away dejected, like the young ruler, because we are very wealthy?\r\n\r\n-- Steve ', '1 Cor. 7:29-31', 0, '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '1-cor-729-31', '', '', '2007-02-26 10:06:35', '2007-02-26 15:06:35', '', 0, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?p=29', 0, '', '', 0),
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Please join us for the next event in our film series on global poverty and injustice for a screening & discussion of Long Night''s Journey Into Day, a documentary on truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa and a 2000 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Documentary.\r\n\r\n7 pm Friday, March 9th, 2007\r\nHope Fellowship Church\r\nPorter Square\r\n16 Beech Street\r\nCambridge , MA 02140\r\n\r\nLong Night''s Journey Into Day reveals a South Africa trying to forge a lasting peace after 40 years of government by the most notorious system of racial segregation since Nazi Germany. The documentary studies South Africa''s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the post-apartheid, democratic government to consider amnesty for perpetrators of crimes committed under apartheid''s reign. Long Night''s Journey Into Day tracks the human drama of just a handful of the 10,000 requests for amnesty that came before the TRC. In exchange for absolute truth about their activities and human rights abuses, perpetrators could earn amnesty for the crimes they committed before apartheid collapsed in 1994.\r\n\r\nWith commentary by the Bishop Desmond Tutu, the film raises some of the most profound moral and ethical questions facing the church & the world today — questions about justice, truth, forgiveness, redemption, and the ability of brutalized and brutalizing individuals to subsequently coexist.\r\n\r\nSee http://www.irisfilms.org/longnight/ for more info', 'FREE Documentary Showing Friday!', 0, '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'free-documentary-showing-friday', '', '', '2007-03-05 16:06:24', '2007-03-05 21:06:24', '', 0, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?p=34', 0, '', '', 0),
(30, 1, '2007-02-03 14:26:26', '2007-02-03 19:26:26', 'When we think of educating people about poverty we must first understand that we don’t have the answers ourselves. No church ministry, non-profit program, or government legislation has the power to end the poverty and injustice we see in the world. Only Jesus and His transforming kingdom have that kind of power.\r\n\r\nSo we seek to understand Jesus first, becoming humble students of the Bible, our own experiences, and those who have come before us. As we learn more about Jesus we see his heart for others, especially the poor.\r\n\r\nWe also seek to understand God''s Kingdom. In learning more about His kingdom, and experiencing it ourselves, we hope to look back and understand the complex reasons for the poverty and injustice we see in the world.\r\n\r\nWhat we learn motivates us to action; to follow Jesus with our whole lives, and to advance His kingdom. In doing so, we hope to transform ourselves, the Church, greater Boston and the world.\r\n\r\nBack to Mission & Values ', 'Church Education', 0, '', 'static', 'open', 'open', '', 'church-education', '', '', '2007-02-03 23:58:17', '2007-02-04 04:58:17', '', 2, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?page_id=30', 0, '', '', 0),
(31, 1, '2007-02-04 00:40:21', '2007-02-04 05:40:21', 'Theology\r\nThe Bible\r\nEvil and the Justice of God, N.T. Wright\r\nSimply Christian, N.T. Wright\r\nIntroducing Liberation Theology, Leonardo Boff\r\nBody Politics, John Howard Yoder\r\n\r\nFaith & Justice\r\nGod''s Politics, Jim Wallis\r\nThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Shane Claiborne\r\nRich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Ron Sider\r\nThe Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Ron Sider\r\nThe Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God''s Call to Justice, Mark Labberton\r\nSimpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective, Michael Schut\r\nKingdom Works: True Stories About God and His People in Inner City America, Bart Campolo\r\nCompassion: Reflection on the Christian Life, Henri Nouwen\r\nEverybody Wants to Change the World, Tony Campolo & Gordon Aeschliman\r\nRevolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving Our Cities, Tony Campolo\r\nThe Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day\r\n\r\nPoverty\r\nRachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, Jonathan Kozol\r\nA Framework for Understanding Poverty, Ruby K. Payne\r\nThe End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs\r\nThe Working Poor: Invisible in America, David Shipler\r\nNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Eherenreich\r\n\r\nIf you have additional suggestions for books on faith and justice, let us know!\r\n\r\nBack to Resources Page', 'Book Suggestions', 0, '', 'static', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'book-suggestions', '', '', '2007-02-04 01:17:33', '2007-02-04 06:17:33', '', 21, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?page_id=31', 0, '', '', 0),
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Did you know that there are still 27 million slaves in the world – TODAY?
\r\n\r\nDid you know that there are abolitionists working around the world – TODAY?
\r\n\r\nThe Boston Faith & Justice Network and the Graduate School Christian Fellowships of Harvard invite you to learn more about England''s abolition movement 200 years ago in hopes that we will all be inspired to end the suffering in our world — TODAY.
\r\n\r\nPLUS SEE A FREE, first-run, opening night, major FILM, Amazing Grace: The Epic Story of William Wilberforce! (click on the image to the right to watch a movie trailer and find out more).
\r\n\r\nJoin us at Kendall Square Theater on Friday night, at 6:45 pm for an OPENING NIGHT screening of Amazing Grace. RSVP to jose_maeso [at] ksg07 [dot] harvard [dot] edu by 9 pm, Wednesday, February 21 to reserve a seat. Then join us at a Kendall Square restaurant immediately following to discuss the film and its implications for our lives.
\r\n\r\nAgain, here''s all the pertinent information:
\r\n\r\nMovie: Amazing Grace
\r\nDate: Friday, Feb. 23
\r\nTime: 6:45pm (please arrive 10-15 minutes early)
\r\nWhere: Kendall Square Cinema (directions and link to map below)
\r\nRSVP: By Wed at 9pm to jose_maeso [at] ksg07 [dot] harvard [dot] edu.
\r\nSponsored by: The Boston Faith & Justice Network and the Boston Graduate Christian Fellowship
\r\n\r\nPUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DIRECTIONS: Take the Red Line towards the Kendall/MIT stop. Upon exiting the stop you will see the Marriot Hotel. Go through the lobby of the Marriot Hotel to Broadway. With the Marriot behind you facing Broadway St., make a left and walk down Broadway until you pass over the train tracks. After crossing the train tracks stay on your right until you see Kendall Square on your right. Walk all the way across the Kendall Square courtyard, passing the Blue Room and UPS Store through an arch at which time you will be on Binney St. At that time you will be facing the Kendall Square Garage. The theater is to the left of the garage.
\r\n\r\nA typical reading of this passage might lead us to think that setting our minds and hearts on things above means to remember our eternal destinies and the transience of life on earth. To focus on the promise of glory in heaven and the joy of being with God. That is an apt reading.Yet, there is another.\r\n\r\nI went to a missions conference in 2004. When I saw that this text was the focus of the keynote, I expected another sermon on the delights of eternity and heaven and remembering how brief our current life is and how we should look ahead to our permanent home. I was wrong. The speaker instead interpreted "set your minds on things above" as focusing on things of eternity, here. He then showed us a powerpoint of Africans in poverty, pointing out that these images depicted eternal matters. That consistent with Scripture, God''s heart was for the poor and the marginalized, the hurting and the destitute. By "setting our minds on things above," it meant being here on earth but investing in people, God''s children. Lifting up the poor. His heart hurt for them, hurt for the oppressed. He was a bringer of justice, and as His children, we were to be be as well. We were not off the hook in merely looking forward to heaven. We were to bring God''s kingdom (justice and mercy) to earth. \r\n\r\nI left the conference a bit shocked but empowered. I wanted to set my mind and heart on things above. All I had to do was look around me.\r\n\r\n— Evelyn Hsieh', 'Eternity Now', 0, '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'eternity-now', '', '', '2007-03-15 07:51:37', '2007-03-15 12:51:37', '', 0, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?p=36', 0, '', '', 0), (37, 1, '2007-03-27 13:12:34', '2007-03-27 18:12:34', 'Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. - Colossians 3:1-4.
When: April 13, 7 p.m.\r\n\r\nLocation: Hope Fellowship Church, Cambridge\r\nOn April 13, Robert Zachritz will be sharing with us about advocating on issues of global poverty. He will be talking about how we should approach this as Christians and also go in-depth about issues of aid, trade, and debt.\r\n\r\nRobert Zachritz\r\n\r\nAs Senior Policy Advisor, Mr. Zachritz''s primary areas of focus for World Vision include Global AIDS, Food Security, International Food Aid, and the Congressional Appropriations process. Prior to joining World Vision in 2003, Bob worked for almost fifteen years within the U.S. Congress for both Republican and Democratic Members of Congress. Most recently, he served as Rules Committee Associate and foreign policy advisor for former Representative Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio).', 'Senior Policy for World Vision to Speak', 0, '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'senior-policy-for-world-vision-to-speak', '', '', '2007-04-02 07:34:15', '2007-04-02 12:34:15', '', 0, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?p=37', 0, '', '', 0);
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(40, 1, '2007-04-13 20:41:46', '2007-04-14 01:41:46', 'Boston Faith & Justice Network''s Global Poverty Films presents:\r\nBlack Gold (click here to watch the trailer)\r\nFriday, April 21, 3:30 pm\r\nHarvard Law School, 1563 Mass Ave,\r\nCambridge, 02138 Pound 107\r\n \r\nFrom the New York Times: \r\n \r\n\r\nBlack Gold tells an unresolved modern version of the age-old David and Goliath story.\r\nBy Stephen Holden\r\n \r\n"The giants in this case are multinational corporations that control the worldwide coffee market. The heroic little guy, Tadesse Meskela, represents the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-op Union, which encompasses 74 co-ops in southern Ethiopia. That country, the birthplace of coffee, produces some of the highest-quality beans in the world...\r\n \r\n\r\nInstead of wielding a slingshot, [Mr. Meskela] works circuitously by eliminating many of the middlemen who drive up the price of coffee and bypassing commodities exchanges to sell his product directly to buyers. His cause has been embraced by the fair-trade movement, which is working to bring so-called fairly traded commodities like chocolate and bananas, as well as coffee, to increasing numbers of American grocery stores."\r\n \r\nJoin us Friday to learn and respond to the reality that we coffee drinkers of the western world pay $3-$5 for our high-priced espresso drinks - while the crushingly poor farmers producing those espresso beans barely make ends meet. \r\n \r\nEven if you can''t make the film, check out info & potential actions at Oxfam.', '"Black Gold" Documentary to show Friday, April 21', 0, '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'black-gold-documentary-to-show-friday-april-21-2', '', '', '2007-04-13 20:49:17', '2007-04-14 01:49:17', '', 0, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?p=40', 0, '', '', 0), (41, 1, '2007-04-13 20:50:13', '2007-04-14 01:50:13', 'Boston Faith & Justice Network''s Global Poverty Films presents:\r\nBlack Gold (click here to watch the trailer)\r\nSaturday, April 21, 3:30 pm\r\nHarvard Law School, 1563 Mass Ave,\r\nCambridge, 02138 Pound 107\r\n\r\nFrom the New York Times:\r\n
Black Gold tells an unresolved modern version of the age-old David and Goliath story.\r\nBy Stephen Holden\r\n\r\n"The giants in this case are multinational corporations that control the worldwide coffee market. The heroic little guy, Tadesse Meskela, represents the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-op Union, which encompasses 74 co-ops in southern Ethiopia. That country, the birthplace of coffee, produces some of the highest-quality beans in the world...\r\nInstead of wielding a slingshot, [Mr. Meskela] works circuitously by eliminating many of the middlemen who drive up the price of coffee and bypassing commodities exchanges to sell his product directly to buyers. His cause has been embraced by the fair-trade movement, which is working to bring so-called fairly traded commodities like chocolate and bananas, as well as coffee, to increasing numbers of American grocery stores."\r\nJoin us Friday to learn and respond to the reality that we coffee drinkers of the western world pay $3-$5 for our high-priced espresso drinks - while the crushingly poor farmers producing those espresso beans barely make ends meet.\r\n\r\nEven if you can''t make the film, check out info & potential actions at Oxfam.', '"Black Gold" Documentary to show Friday, April 21', 0, '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'black-gold-documentary-to-show-friday-april-21', '', '', '2007-04-16 14:53:54', '2007-04-16 19:53:54', '', 0, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?p=41', 0, '', '', 0), (42, 1, '2007-04-29 22:00:34', '2007-04-30 03:00:34', '
\r\n\r\nby Evelyn Hsieh \r\n\r\nI am currently working with Massachusetts Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice- we seek to educate and mobilize people of faith around issues directly affecting working families.\r\n\r\nOne of our current initiatives deals with Smithfield Meat Products and their workers. Smithfield produces pork products that are distributed around the country, and is one of the biggest pork producers in the USA. Unfortunately, it also has a bad track record of treating its workers in one of its largest plants in Tar Heel, NC. Faith communities from North Carolina to Boston are rallying behind these oppressed workers.\r\n\r\nThe National Labor Board has continually cited Smithfield for intimidating and threatening its workers if they indicated interest in unionizing, refusing to pay employees for work, and physically harming employees. A federal appeals court found that the company had intimidated and harassed employees looking to organize.\r\n\r\nWorking a pork processing plant is dangerous work; the process as much as 32,000 hogs a day and 2000 an hour. Human Rights Watch has cited Smithfield for violating international human rights standards.\r\n\r\nWhat can we do?\r\n\r\nYou can start by not purchasing Smithfield pork products, visiting the website, asking grocers to pull Smithfield products off their shelves, and praying for the workers there.\r\n\r\n(info taken from Human Rights Watch report "Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers'' Rights in U.S Meat and Poultry Plants," and UFCW materials).\r\n\r\nFor more information, please visit www.smithfieldjustice.com ', 'JobLog: Advocating for Workers'' Justice', 0, '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'joblog-advocating-for-workers-justice', '', '', '2007-05-24 07:17:37', '2007-05-24 12:17:37', '', 0, 'http://www.bostonfaithjustice.org/?p=42', 0, '', '', 0),
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