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Happy downloading!</p>\n\";}i:5;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. 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The main plugin file and the readme should both be at the root of the <strong>trunk</strong> directory.</p>\n<p>In the case of Feed Styler, here is a screenshot of what my trunk directory consisted of:</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/feed_styler_trunk_directory.gif\" alt=\"Feed Styler Trunk Directory\" /><br />The Trunk Directory Contents</p>\n<h3>9.  Commit the Files to the Repository</h3>\n<p>Right+click the <strong>trunk</strong> directory to bring up the TortoiseSVN context menu.  Select <strong>SVN Commit</strong>.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard13.jpg\" alt=\"Subversion Commit\" /><br />Commit Context Menu</p>\n<p>You will now be presented with a dialog box to enter a log message and to select which files to commit to the trunk.  Type in a brief log message (such as &#8220;Adding my plugin version&#8221;) and select all the files you would like to commit.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard15.jpg\" alt=\"Subversion Commit - Adding Log Message and Files\" /><br />Subversion Commit - Log Messages and Files</p>\n<p>After you are finished, click <strong>OK</strong>.  You will now be prompted to enter a username and password.  The username and password is the same that you use for the WordPress.org Support forums (see Step 1).  </p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard16.jpg\" alt=\"SVN Username and Password\" /><br />Login Screen</p>\n<p>If all goes well, your plugin files should be added.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/trunk_added.jpg\" alt=\"SVN Trunk Added\" /><br />Files Added to the Trunk</p>\n<h3>10.  Tag Your Plugin Release</h3>\n<p>This is where the readme file really comes into play.  In the readme file, there was a spot to add in a stable tag (in my case 1.0.5.0).   You will want to provide a tag that matches the stable tag in the readme file.</p>\n<p>Right+click the <strong>trunk</strong> directory and select TortoiseSVN &raquo; Branch/Tag.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard18.jpg\" alt=\"Branch/Tag Context Menu\" /><br />Adding a Tag Context Menu</p>\n<p>Within the dialog that pops up, type in the path to your tag directory and the version.  In my case, it was:  http://svn.wp-plugins.org/feed-styler/tags/1.0.5.0 </p>\n<p>Also, type in a quick log message that more-or-less says, &#8220;Tagging this release.&#8221;  Hit <strong>OK</strong> when you are finished.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard24.jpg\" alt=\"Adding Plugin Tag\" /><br />Tagging Dialog Box</p>\n<p>If all goes well, the plugin should now be tagged and ready to go.  You may want to update your tags directory (locally) by right+clicking the <strong>tags</strong> directory and clicking <strong>SVN Update</strong>.</p>\n<h3>11.  Make Sure Everything is Accurate at the Repository and the WordPress Plugin Directory</h3>\n<p>There are a few ways to ensure everything went correctly.  The best way is to head to your subversion URL (in my case, http://svn.wp-plugins.org/feed-styler/) and ensure the trunk and tags were uploaded successfully.  </p>\n<p>After committing the initial trunk or tags, the WordPress plugin repository takes about fifteen minutes to update.  After that, head over to your plugin&#8217;s URL at the plugin directory (in my case, http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feed-styler) and see if everything in your readme file is appropriately displayed.  If you need to make changes to the readme file, simply edit it locally and right+click the file and hit &#8220;SVN Commit.&#8221;  </p>\n<p>If all goes well,  you should now see your plugin at the front page of the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/\">WordPress plugin page</a>.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/feed-styler-added2.gif\" alt=\"Plugin Page Added\" /><br />WordPress Plugin Directory</p>\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\n<p>Thank you for reading my tips on getting your plugin listed at the official WordPress plugin directory.  If you have any questions/comments, please feel free to weigh in.  I&#8217;d like to personally thank <a href=\"http://www.thereasoner.com\">Bes Zain</a> for assisting me in taking the screenshots and testing out this tutorial.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:45:17 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:14:\"Ronald Huereca\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:10008:\"<p>With the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\">WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0</a> in full swing, some plugin authors may want to have their plugin listed at the official <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/\">WordPress.org Plugin Directory</a>.  </p>\n<p>Within this post I will go over the steps necessary to get your plugin hosted by WordPress.  This tutorial is for Windows users, but I will link to other tutorials as they become available based on other operating systems.  The WordPress directory uses <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software)\">Subversion</a>, which won&#8217;t be covered in detail here (you don&#8217;t need to know Subversion to follow this tutorial).  The tutorial covers adding a plugin I wrote called Feed Styler into the plugin directory.  I apologize in advance for the plug, but I wanted to provide a real-world step-by-step example of adding a <em>real</em> plugin.</p>\n<h3>1.  Get a WordPress.org Account</h3>\n<p>Get over to the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support/register.php\">WordPress support page</a> and register as a user.  You will need to be registered in order to list your plugin.</p>\n<h3>2.  Add Your Plugin</h3>\n<p>The second step is to <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add/\">add your plugin</a>.  You will need to provide:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your plugin&#8217;s name.</li>\n<li>A one or two sentence plugin description.</li>\n<li>A homepage URI for your plugin (optional).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I recommend always having a dedicated plugin homepage, but that is up to you.  You also want to make sure your plugin is <a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses\">GPL Compatible</a>.</p>\n<h3>3.  Wait for Approval</h3>\n<p>The approval process isn&#8217;t overnight.  The first plugin I added took about a week, and the second took almost two weeks.</p>\n<p>When approved, you will receive an email that says that your plugin has been approved and that you will have access to your subversion repository shortly.  In the case of my plugin, the repository was located at: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/feed-styler/</p>\n<p>You are also instructed to use the same username and password for WordPress.org to access your repository.  </p>\n<h3>4.  Download and Install TortoiseSVN</h3>\n<p>Head over ot the <a href=\"http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads\">TortoiseSVN download page</a> and download the appropriate installer (sorry non-Windows users).  The installation is relatively painless, but it does require a restart.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard06.jpg\" alt=\"TortoiseSVN Installer Complete\" /><br />TortoiseSVN Installer</p>\n<h3>5.  Create a Directory</h3>\n<p>Create a directory somewhat out of the way (but easy to find again) that will hold your repository.  For the purpose of making this tutorial, I just created a folder on my desktop called &#8216;feed styler&#8217;.  </p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/feed_styler_desktop.gif\" alt=\"Empty Directory for Holding Subversion Files\" /></p>\n<h3>6.  Check Out the Repository</h3>\n<p>Navigate to your new folder and right+click to pull up a context menu with the TortoiseSVN options.  What you&#8217;ll be wanting to select is <strong>SVN Checkout</strong>.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/tortoise_context_menu.gif\" alt=\"TortoiseSVN Context Menu\" /><br />TortoiseSVN Context Menu - Checkout</p>\n<p>After selecting <strong>SVN Checkout</strong>, a dialog box will pop up asking for the URL of the repository and the location to store it.  The URL to the repository is the one that was e-mailed to you when your plugin was approved.  The location to store the repository should already be filled out.  After filling in those two pieces of information, simply hit <strong>OK</strong>.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/svn_checkout_folder_location.gif\" alt=\"Checkout Location\" /><br />Subversion Checkout Dialog</p>\n<p>If all goes well, you should now have three directories in your folder called <strong>branches</strong>, <strong>tags</strong>, and <strong>trunk</strong>.</p>\n<h3>7.  Prepare Your Read Me File</h3>\n<p>Prepare your plugin files for being included in the repository.  Usually the only thing you have to do for this step is to prepare a Read Me file that adheres to the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt\">WordPress.org guidelines</a>.  The Read Me creation is straight forward, but WordPress does have a <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/validator/\">readme validator</a> for your convenience. </p>\n<p>Here are some quick tips for preparing your readme file:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/\">appropriate tags</a> when labeling your plugin.</li>\n<li>Store your readme file in your main plugin directory.</li>\n<li>If including screenshots, make sure the screenshots are named screenshot-1, screenshot-2, screenshot-n, etc.</li>\n<li>Use the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/validator/\">readme validator</a> to preview your readme file.</li>\n<li>When providing a stable tag, don&#8217;t be creative.  Use something along the lines of:  Stable tag: 1.0.5.0</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>8.  Copy the Plugin Files to the Trunk Directory</h3>\n<p>Once you have your plugin files in order and a readme file, copy the files to the <strong>trunk</strong> directory.  The main plugin file and the readme should both be at the root of the <strong>trunk</strong> directory.</p>\n<p>In the case of Feed Styler, here is a screenshot of what my trunk directory consisted of:</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/feed_styler_trunk_directory.gif\" alt=\"Feed Styler Trunk Directory\" /><br />The Trunk Directory Contents</p>\n<h3>9.  Commit the Files to the Repository</h3>\n<p>Right+click the <strong>trunk</strong> directory to bring up the TortoiseSVN context menu.  Select <strong>SVN Commit</strong>.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard13.jpg\" alt=\"Subversion Commit\" /><br />Commit Context Menu</p>\n<p>You will now be presented with a dialog box to enter a log message and to select which files to commit to the trunk.  Type in a brief log message (such as &#8220;Adding my plugin version&#8221;) and select all the files you would like to commit.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard15.jpg\" alt=\"Subversion Commit - Adding Log Message and Files\" /><br />Subversion Commit - Log Messages and Files</p>\n<p>After you are finished, click <strong>OK</strong>.  You will now be prompted to enter a username and password.  The username and password is the same that you use for the WordPress.org Support forums (see Step 1).  </p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard16.jpg\" alt=\"SVN Username and Password\" /><br />Login Screen</p>\n<p>If all goes well, your plugin files should be added.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/trunk_added.jpg\" alt=\"SVN Trunk Added\" /><br />Files Added to the Trunk</p>\n<h3>10.  Tag Your Plugin Release</h3>\n<p>This is where the readme file really comes into play.  In the readme file, there was a spot to add in a stable tag (in my case 1.0.5.0).   You will want to provide a tag that matches the stable tag in the readme file.</p>\n<p>Right+click the <strong>trunk</strong> directory and select TortoiseSVN &raquo; Branch/Tag.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard18.jpg\" alt=\"Branch/Tag Context Menu\" /><br />Adding a Tag Context Menu</p>\n<p>Within the dialog that pops up, type in the path to your tag directory and the version.  In my case, it was:  http://svn.wp-plugins.org/feed-styler/tags/1.0.5.0 </p>\n<p>Also, type in a quick log message that more-or-less says, &#8220;Tagging this release.&#8221;  Hit <strong>OK</strong> when you are finished.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/clipboard24.jpg\" alt=\"Adding Plugin Tag\" /><br />Tagging Dialog Box</p>\n<p>If all goes well, the plugin should now be tagged and ready to go.  You may want to update your tags directory (locally) by right+clicking the <strong>tags</strong> directory and clicking <strong>SVN Update</strong>.</p>\n<h3>11.  Make Sure Everything is Accurate at the Repository and the WordPress Plugin Directory</h3>\n<p>There are a few ways to ensure everything went correctly.  The best way is to head to your subversion URL (in my case, http://svn.wp-plugins.org/feed-styler/) and ensure the trunk and tags were uploaded successfully.  </p>\n<p>After committing the initial trunk or tags, the WordPress plugin repository takes about fifteen minutes to update.  After that, head over to your plugin&#8217;s URL at the plugin directory (in my case, http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feed-styler) and see if everything in your readme file is appropriately displayed.  If you need to make changes to the readme file, simply edit it locally and right+click the file and hit &#8220;SVN Commit.&#8221;  </p>\n<p>If all goes well,  you should now see your plugin at the front page of the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/\">WordPress plugin page</a>.</p>\n<p class=\"screenshot\"><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/feed-styler-added2.gif\" alt=\"Plugin Page Added\" /><br />WordPress Plugin Directory</p>\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\n<p>Thank you for reading my tips on getting your plugin listed at the official WordPress plugin directory.  If you have any questions/comments, please feel free to weigh in.  I&#8217;d like to personally thank <a href=\"http://www.thereasoner.com\">Bes Zain</a> for assisting me in taking the screenshots and testing out this tutorial.</p>\";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:33:\"Matt: Podcast: Charleen Mullenweg\";s:4:\"guid\";s:59:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/16/podcast-charleen-mullenweg/\";s:4:\"link\";s:59:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/16/podcast-charleen-mullenweg/\";s:11:\"description\";s:514:\"<p><a href=\"http://photomatt.net/dropbox/2007/06/photomatt-podcast-10.mp3\">Podcast #10 is up with my sister Charleen</a>. We talk about the art of TV shows, covering Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Babylon 5, Veronica Mars, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Alias, Lost, Joss Whedon, and more. This is a long one, clocking in at 12:46, but the file size is only 3.9mb. <a href=\"http://charleen.mullenweg.com/\">Here&#8217;s Charleen&#8217;s blog</a>. Enjoy!</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:35:13 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:514:\"<p><a href=\"http://photomatt.net/dropbox/2007/06/photomatt-podcast-10.mp3\">Podcast #10 is up with my sister Charleen</a>. We talk about the art of TV shows, covering Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Babylon 5, Veronica Mars, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Alias, Lost, Joss Whedon, and more. This is a long one, clocking in at 12:46, but the file size is only 3.9mb. <a href=\"http://charleen.mullenweg.com/\">Here&#8217;s Charleen&#8217;s blog</a>. Enjoy!</p>\";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Weblog Tools Collection: CSS for code: Wrap long lines\";s:4:\"guid\";s:82:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/16/css-for-code-wrap-long-lines/\";s:4:\"link\";s:82:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/16/css-for-code-wrap-long-lines/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1397:\"<p>If you post code on your Wordpress blog, you could use a code beautifier plugin such as <a href=\"http://blog.igeek.info/wp-plugins/igsyntax-hiliter/\">syntax highlighter</a> or you could include your code in &lt;pre&gt; tags. They preserve line breaks, multiple blanks, tabs between words and other formatting commonly used in code. However, in some cases, if body of your blog is narrow(er) or your line of code is really long, it will not wrap and will overflow over your sidebar. You can just hide the overflow but that still will look tacky and not very usable. On performing a little search, I discovered that <a href=\"http://www.longren.org/2006/09/27/wrapping-text-inside-pre-tags/\">Tyler Longren</a> had already come up with a clever hack to solve the problem. If you add the following code to your stylesheet, it will wrap the long lines of code.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\n<code>\n\npre {\n\nÂ    white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */\n\nÂ    white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */\n\nÂ    white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */\n\nÂ    white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */\n\nÂ    word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */\n\n}\n\n</code></pre>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/10/html-css-trick-for-displaying-code.html\">Amit</a> (via <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/wrapping-text-inside-pre-html-tags/\">Lorelle</a>)</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:15:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1397:\"<p>If you post code on your Wordpress blog, you could use a code beautifier plugin such as <a href=\"http://blog.igeek.info/wp-plugins/igsyntax-hiliter/\">syntax highlighter</a> or you could include your code in &lt;pre&gt; tags. They preserve line breaks, multiple blanks, tabs between words and other formatting commonly used in code. However, in some cases, if body of your blog is narrow(er) or your line of code is really long, it will not wrap and will overflow over your sidebar. You can just hide the overflow but that still will look tacky and not very usable. On performing a little search, I discovered that <a href=\"http://www.longren.org/2006/09/27/wrapping-text-inside-pre-tags/\">Tyler Longren</a> had already come up with a clever hack to solve the problem. If you add the following code to your stylesheet, it will wrap the long lines of code.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\n<code>\n\npre {\n\nÂ    white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */\n\nÂ    white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */\n\nÂ    white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */\n\nÂ    white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */\n\nÂ    word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */\n\n}\n\n</code></pre>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/10/html-css-trick-for-displaying-code.html\">Amit</a> (via <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/wrapping-text-inside-pre-html-tags/\">Lorelle</a>)</p>\";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:35:\"Ryan Boren: 2.2.1 Release Candidate\";s:4:\"guid\";s:58:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/16/221-release-candidate/\";s:4:\"link\";s:58:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/16/221-release-candidate/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1257:\"<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a> 2.2.1 is almost ready.  2.2.1 fixes <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.2.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">bugs</a> in widgets, xmlrpc, atom feeds, and other areas.  2.2.1 also addresses security issues found in xmlrpc and phpmailer.  We&#8217;ll have more on that in the release notes.</p>\n<p>A release candidate is available for testing.  Try it out, and drop a comment letting us know if you have any problems with it.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.2.1-RC2.zip\">2.2.1 Release Candidate 2 (zip) </a> md5: 4236127b0f5d2c18457d0cf4dd298141</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.2.1-RC2.tar.gz\">2.2.1 Release Candidate 2 (tar.gz)</a> md5: f1c586d16cb9540806c2b4f2da187f1e</li>\n</ul>\n<p>All changes made since 2.2 can be viewed <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.2&amp;old=&amp;new_path=branches%2F2.2&amp;new=\">here</a>.  A list of all bugs fixed in 2.2.1 is <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.2.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">here</a>.</p>\n<p>Assuming no nasty bugs are discovered in the RC, 2.2.1 should be released within the next couple days.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:34:01 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1257:\"<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a> 2.2.1 is almost ready.  2.2.1 fixes <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.2.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">bugs</a> in widgets, xmlrpc, atom feeds, and other areas.  2.2.1 also addresses security issues found in xmlrpc and phpmailer.  We&#8217;ll have more on that in the release notes.</p>\n<p>A release candidate is available for testing.  Try it out, and drop a comment letting us know if you have any problems with it.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.2.1-RC2.zip\">2.2.1 Release Candidate 2 (zip) </a> md5: 4236127b0f5d2c18457d0cf4dd298141</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.2.1-RC2.tar.gz\">2.2.1 Release Candidate 2 (tar.gz)</a> md5: f1c586d16cb9540806c2b4f2da187f1e</li>\n</ul>\n<p>All changes made since 2.2 can be viewed <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.2&amp;old=&amp;new_path=branches%2F2.2&amp;new=\">here</a>.  A list of all bugs fixed in 2.2.1 is <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.2.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority\">here</a>.</p>\n<p>Assuming no nasty bugs are discovered in the RC, 2.2.1 should be released within the next couple days.</p>\";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 6/16\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/16/wordpress-theme-releases-for-616/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/16/wordpress-theme-releases-for-616/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2005:\"<p><a href=\"http://randaclay.com/archives/new-theme-for-wordpress-bluebird\">Bluebird</a> is a cute 3-column theme with light-blue and chocolate-colored accents designed for 1024Ã—768 resolution.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.gluedideas.com/admin/2007/06/glued-theme-available/\">Glued</a> is a 3-column theme with Web 2.0-style tabs and a professional look.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.garryvandervoort.com/\">Lovecraft</a> is a 3-column, fixed-width (1024px), widget-ready theme.  Both sidebar columns sit on the right side, and the theme displays in yellow, white, and two shade of blue.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.paggu.com/?p=12\">PGreen</a> is a 2-column, fixed-width, widget-ready theme.  The sidebar sits on the right side and shares space with the header.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.wordpress.net/other/left-sidebar/3885/sunshine/\">Sunshine</a> is a 2-column, fixed-width theme dressed up in bright red and yellow colors.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.codescheme.net/2007/06/14/wordpress-theme-triplex/\">Triplex</a> is a 3-column, fixed-width, widget-ready theme with a Web 2.0 feel.  Both sidebar columns sit on the right side.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.unthemed.com/clean-blue/\">Unthemed Clean Blue</a> is a 2-column, minimalist-style theme.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.headsetoptions.org/2007/06/14/envison-3c-3-column-adsense-wordpress-theme/\">Envision 3C</a> is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a blue header and pastel green and white sidebars.  Both sidebar columns sit on the right side, and the theme supports Google Adsense.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.dezzain.com/archives/2007/06/15/dezzain-free-theme-molotone/\">Molotone</a> is a 2-column, widget- and adsense-ready, glossy theme that looks like a version of the WordPress default theme.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.wordpress.net/main-color/yellow/3884/nubricks-10/\">Nubricks</a> is 2-column, fixed-width theme based on the default Kubrick theme.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:45:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2005:\"<p><a href=\"http://randaclay.com/archives/new-theme-for-wordpress-bluebird\">Bluebird</a> is a cute 3-column theme with light-blue and chocolate-colored accents designed for 1024Ã—768 resolution.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.gluedideas.com/admin/2007/06/glued-theme-available/\">Glued</a> is a 3-column theme with Web 2.0-style tabs and a professional look.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.garryvandervoort.com/\">Lovecraft</a> is a 3-column, fixed-width (1024px), widget-ready theme.  Both sidebar columns sit on the right side, and the theme displays in yellow, white, and two shade of blue.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.paggu.com/?p=12\">PGreen</a> is a 2-column, fixed-width, widget-ready theme.  The sidebar sits on the right side and shares space with the header.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.wordpress.net/other/left-sidebar/3885/sunshine/\">Sunshine</a> is a 2-column, fixed-width theme dressed up in bright red and yellow colors.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.codescheme.net/2007/06/14/wordpress-theme-triplex/\">Triplex</a> is a 3-column, fixed-width, widget-ready theme with a Web 2.0 feel.  Both sidebar columns sit on the right side.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.unthemed.com/clean-blue/\">Unthemed Clean Blue</a> is a 2-column, minimalist-style theme.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.headsetoptions.org/2007/06/14/envison-3c-3-column-adsense-wordpress-theme/\">Envision 3C</a> is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a blue header and pastel green and white sidebars.  Both sidebar columns sit on the right side, and the theme supports Google Adsense.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.dezzain.com/archives/2007/06/15/dezzain-free-theme-molotone/\">Molotone</a> is a 2-column, widget- and adsense-ready, glossy theme that looks like a version of the WordPress default theme.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.wordpress.net/main-color/yellow/3884/nubricks-10/\">Nubricks</a> is 2-column, fixed-width theme based on the default Kubrick theme.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:55:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Competition 2.0 Updates\";s:4:\"guid\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/15/plugin-competition-20-updates/\";s:4:\"link\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/15/plugin-competition-20-updates/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2541:\"<p>The WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 has been getting a <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/two-contests/\">lot of</a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/two-exciting-wordpress-contests/\">good</a> <a href=\"http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/05/wordpress-plugin-competition-20-for-developers/\">press</a> in the past few weeks and we already have <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\">four interesting and useful plugins</a> announced for the competition. If you are planning to participate, why don&#8217;t you register on the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\">PluginBlog</a> and post your announcement? The last date to submit your plugin is the 31st of July.<br />\nLots of <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/\">new prizes</a> have been announced for the competition including over $700 in prize money from myself, <a href=\"http://ajaydsouza.com/\">Ajay</a>, <a href=\"http://www.jonathanwold.com/\">Jonathan</a> and <a href=\"http://www.blogged-out.com/\">Darren</a>, a <a href=\"http://www.hostgator.com/\">Hostgator</a> sponsored dedicated server for a year, an 8GB iPod Nano from <a href=\"http://imthi.com/\">Imthiaz</a>, more hosting from <a href=\"http://www.pjmommy.com/\">PJMommy</a>, a signed copy of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\">Lorelle&#8217;s new book</a> and a copy of <a href=\"http://blog.taragana.com/\">Angsuman&#8217;s</a> latest Translator Pro.</p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http://photomatt.net\">Matt</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/\">Lorelle</a> and <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=wordpress+plugin+competition+2.0&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">others</a> for helping to promote the competition. <a href=\"http://planetozh.com/blog/\">Oz</a> and Lorelle have also helped me make the PluginBlog more user friendly and clean it up. Ajay is helping me judge the competition and I am having email conversations with at least three other prize sponsors for the competition. I am looking for more sponsors and more plugin authors to participate in the competition. Every dollar you sponsor will go directly to the prize pool, will help WordPress plugin development and will assist me in promoting developers who work hard for the community.</p>\n<p>I can also promise some fame and fortune if you choose to participate as a Plugin Developer in the competition.  <img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /></p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:46:17 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2541:\"<p>The WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 has been getting a <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/two-contests/\">lot of</a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/two-exciting-wordpress-contests/\">good</a> <a href=\"http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/05/wordpress-plugin-competition-20-for-developers/\">press</a> in the past few weeks and we already have <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\">four interesting and useful plugins</a> announced for the competition. If you are planning to participate, why don&#8217;t you register on the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\">PluginBlog</a> and post your announcement? The last date to submit your plugin is the 31st of July.<br />\nLots of <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/\">new prizes</a> have been announced for the competition including over $700 in prize money from myself, <a href=\"http://ajaydsouza.com/\">Ajay</a>, <a href=\"http://www.jonathanwold.com/\">Jonathan</a> and <a href=\"http://www.blogged-out.com/\">Darren</a>, a <a href=\"http://www.hostgator.com/\">Hostgator</a> sponsored dedicated server for a year, an 8GB iPod Nano from <a href=\"http://imthi.com/\">Imthiaz</a>, more hosting from <a href=\"http://www.pjmommy.com/\">PJMommy</a>, a signed copy of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\">Lorelle&#8217;s new book</a> and a copy of <a href=\"http://blog.taragana.com/\">Angsuman&#8217;s</a> latest Translator Pro.</p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http://photomatt.net\">Matt</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/\">Lorelle</a> and <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=wordpress+plugin+competition+2.0&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">others</a> for helping to promote the competition. <a href=\"http://planetozh.com/blog/\">Oz</a> and Lorelle have also helped me make the PluginBlog more user friendly and clean it up. Ajay is helping me judge the competition and I am having email conversations with at least three other prize sponsors for the competition. I am looking for more sponsors and more plugin authors to participate in the competition. Every dollar you sponsor will go directly to the prize pool, will help WordPress plugin development and will assist me in promoting developers who work hard for the community.</p>\n<p>I can also promise some fame and fortune if you choose to participate as a Plugin Developer in the competition.  <img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /></p>\";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/15\";s:4:\"guid\";s:89:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/15/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-615-2/\";s:4:\"link\";s:89:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/15/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-615-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1110:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=384\">Advanced TinyMCE Editor</a> expands the abilities of WordPress&#8217; native TinyMCE editor and doubles the editor&#8217;s available functions to 60, improves existing functionality for handling images, corrects errors in the standard WordPress editor, and makes it easier for maintain and configure the WordPress editor.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.mapelli.info/feed/feed-count-11\">Feed Count</a> provides an alternative to <a href=\"http://www.feedburner.com\">FeedBurner&#8217;s</a> subscribers count chiclet.  Users can customize the CSS style, refresh time, and link.  Feed Count also uses before and after tags and integrates with the WordPress admin panel.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.thumbria.com/feed-master/\">Feed Master</a> is a beta-release plugin that allows blog owners to count the number of subscribers to their blog&#8217;s feed.  Feed Master offers greater personalization of your feed, improved plugin interface, more specific statistics, ability to create feed networks, information about subscribers, and automatically creates a robot.txt file.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:01:49 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1110:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=384\">Advanced TinyMCE Editor</a> expands the abilities of WordPress&#8217; native TinyMCE editor and doubles the editor&#8217;s available functions to 60, improves existing functionality for handling images, corrects errors in the standard WordPress editor, and makes it easier for maintain and configure the WordPress editor.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.mapelli.info/feed/feed-count-11\">Feed Count</a> provides an alternative to <a href=\"http://www.feedburner.com\">FeedBurner&#8217;s</a> subscribers count chiclet.  Users can customize the CSS style, refresh time, and link.  Feed Count also uses before and after tags and integrates with the WordPress admin panel.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.thumbria.com/feed-master/\">Feed Master</a> is a beta-release plugin that allows blog owners to count the number of subscribers to their blog&#8217;s feed.  Feed Master offers greater personalization of your feed, improved plugin interface, more specific statistics, ability to create feed networks, information about subscribers, and automatically creates a robot.txt file.</p>\";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 6/15\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/15/wordpress-theme-releases-for-615/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/15/wordpress-theme-releases-for-615/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3181:\"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to be joining the contributing staff here.  My name is Jim Stitzel, and I&#8217;ve been a blogger for nearly four years.  I cut my blogging teeth in the Xanga community before discovering a much larger blogging community when I &#8220;accidentally&#8221; ran the auto-installation for something called WordPress on my hosted site.  It was the best mistake I&#8217;ve ever made.  Since then, <a href=\"http://shamuswrites.com\">my own website</a> has undergone several iterations and now runs almost entirely on WordPress.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a self-taught coding geek who&#8217;s proficient in HTML/CSS and is learning more and more about PHP everyday.  I&#8217;m a writer by passion (who hopes to one day make a living doing so), but I work as a data analyst at Purdue University in order to pay the bills.  I&#8217;m an avid Halo/Halo 2 fan and a loyal member of the <a href=\"http://tiedtheleader.com\">TTL Gunslingers</a>, where I head up the management of the <a href=\"http://gunslingers.tiedtheleader.com\">news portal</a> (which is also built on WordPress).</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited about the opportunity to contribute here, as well, and hope to add more to this growing community that I&#8217;ve come to love and respect.</p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblogmill.com/BlueMeanie/\">BlueMeanie</a> is a 2-column theme with a clean and simple look.  There is an &#8216;About&#8217; and &#8216;Recent Posts&#8217; space at the top with standard sidebar modules on the right.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.cypherhackz.net/plugins-themes/cypherfs-royale/\">CypherFS Royale</a> is a 2-column built in shades of blue.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://antbag.com/fastway-theme-for-wordpress/\">Fastway</a> is a 3-column, widget-ready theme built in red and grey and surrounded by lots of whitespace.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.performancing.com/themes/announcing-the-photopress-wordpress-theme-for-photoblogs/\">Photopress</a> is a single-column theme that&#8217;s designed with photobloggers in mind who want to focus on the pictures, not the sidebar.  It is ideal for pictures that are 640px wide.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://hitskey.com/wordpress-theme/red-horizon/\">Red Horizon</a> is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with an unconventional-looking header.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.dezzain.com/archives/2007/06/13/dezzain-free-theme-nobus\">Nobus</a> is a 3 column, widget-ready, web 2.0 wordpress theme with good usage of bold type and glossy effect.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.mandarinmusing.com/2007/06/05/themes-update-logistix-3c-and-super-bold-wordpress-themes/\">Superbold</a> is a 2-column, widget-ready, funky-looking Chinatown theme.  Also check out Logistix 3C, an orange, 3-column, widget-ready, professional-looking theme.  Logistix 3C supports adsense.  (Both contain sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://max.limpag.com/2007/06/12/announcing-wp-subdued-wordpress-theme/\">WP-Subdued</a> is a 2-column theme ported for WordPress from the Subdued web template released by Free CSS Templates.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:45:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3181:\"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to be joining the contributing staff here.  My name is Jim Stitzel, and I&#8217;ve been a blogger for nearly four years.  I cut my blogging teeth in the Xanga community before discovering a much larger blogging community when I &#8220;accidentally&#8221; ran the auto-installation for something called WordPress on my hosted site.  It was the best mistake I&#8217;ve ever made.  Since then, <a href=\"http://shamuswrites.com\">my own website</a> has undergone several iterations and now runs almost entirely on WordPress.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a self-taught coding geek who&#8217;s proficient in HTML/CSS and is learning more and more about PHP everyday.  I&#8217;m a writer by passion (who hopes to one day make a living doing so), but I work as a data analyst at Purdue University in order to pay the bills.  I&#8217;m an avid Halo/Halo 2 fan and a loyal member of the <a href=\"http://tiedtheleader.com\">TTL Gunslingers</a>, where I head up the management of the <a href=\"http://gunslingers.tiedtheleader.com\">news portal</a> (which is also built on WordPress).</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited about the opportunity to contribute here, as well, and hope to add more to this growing community that I&#8217;ve come to love and respect.</p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblogmill.com/BlueMeanie/\">BlueMeanie</a> is a 2-column theme with a clean and simple look.  There is an &#8216;About&#8217; and &#8216;Recent Posts&#8217; space at the top with standard sidebar modules on the right.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.cypherhackz.net/plugins-themes/cypherfs-royale/\">CypherFS Royale</a> is a 2-column built in shades of blue.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://antbag.com/fastway-theme-for-wordpress/\">Fastway</a> is a 3-column, widget-ready theme built in red and grey and surrounded by lots of whitespace.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.performancing.com/themes/announcing-the-photopress-wordpress-theme-for-photoblogs/\">Photopress</a> is a single-column theme that&#8217;s designed with photobloggers in mind who want to focus on the pictures, not the sidebar.  It is ideal for pictures that are 640px wide.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://hitskey.com/wordpress-theme/red-horizon/\">Red Horizon</a> is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with an unconventional-looking header.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.dezzain.com/archives/2007/06/13/dezzain-free-theme-nobus\">Nobus</a> is a 3 column, widget-ready, web 2.0 wordpress theme with good usage of bold type and glossy effect.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.mandarinmusing.com/2007/06/05/themes-update-logistix-3c-and-super-bold-wordpress-themes/\">Superbold</a> is a 2-column, widget-ready, funky-looking Chinatown theme.  Also check out Logistix 3C, an orange, 3-column, widget-ready, professional-looking theme.  Logistix 3C supports adsense.  (Both contain sponsored links.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://max.limpag.com/2007/06/12/announcing-wp-subdued-wordpress-theme/\">WP-Subdued</a> is a 2-column theme ported for WordPress from the Subdued web template released by Free CSS Templates.  (Contains sponsored links.)</p>\";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Plugin Releases for 6/14\";s:4:\"guid\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/14/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-615/\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/14/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-615/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1796:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.michaelwales.com/2007/06/show-some-link-love-trackbackers/\">Trackbackers</a> is a plugin that allows you to link back to the domains that send the most trackbacks to you, much like top commenters. It might be a good idea to run some kind of trackback validation or Akismet with this plugin.</p>\n<p><strike>High Keyword density Plugin checks for the user-agent and removes certain common words from the post text accordingly. So when Googlebot visits your page, it wonâ€™t be seeing these words, while your readers can still read your meaningful sentences. I am not sure of the viability or the effectiveness of this plugin but it might be on the border of being Google un-friendly. Please use at your own risk</strike> [EDIT] We choose not to promote this plugin. Please see comments below.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\">AJAX Edit Comments 1.1</a> allows admin and users to edit comments from a post. Users see a countdown timer when editing a comment. Admin can now also edit, delete, and mark as spam from a post without having to go to the admin panel. In other words, any user that leaves a comment on your blog can edit their comments.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.dailyblogtips.com/date-exclusion-wordpress-plugin/\">Date Exclusion Plugin</a> gives the user control over where and when the timestamp should be displayed. You can exclude dates for all the posts, or only on posts older than a few weeks or months and this time span is customizable.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2007/06/12/gmms-google-maps-made-simple-wp-plugin.html\">Google Maps Made Simple Plugin</a> allows a user to add Google Maps to a Wordpress post and allow the user to set the zoom level and the width and the height of the map.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:45:24 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1796:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.michaelwales.com/2007/06/show-some-link-love-trackbackers/\">Trackbackers</a> is a plugin that allows you to link back to the domains that send the most trackbacks to you, much like top commenters. It might be a good idea to run some kind of trackback validation or Akismet with this plugin.</p>\n<p><strike>High Keyword density Plugin checks for the user-agent and removes certain common words from the post text accordingly. So when Googlebot visits your page, it wonâ€™t be seeing these words, while your readers can still read your meaningful sentences. I am not sure of the viability or the effectiveness of this plugin but it might be on the border of being Google un-friendly. Please use at your own risk</strike> [EDIT] We choose not to promote this plugin. Please see comments below.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\">AJAX Edit Comments 1.1</a> allows admin and users to edit comments from a post. Users see a countdown timer when editing a comment. Admin can now also edit, delete, and mark as spam from a post without having to go to the admin panel. In other words, any user that leaves a comment on your blog can edit their comments.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.dailyblogtips.com/date-exclusion-wordpress-plugin/\">Date Exclusion Plugin</a> gives the user control over where and when the timestamp should be displayed. You can exclude dates for all the posts, or only on posts older than a few weeks or months and this time span is customizable.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://stuff.nekhbet.ro/2007/06/12/gmms-google-maps-made-simple-wp-plugin.html\">Google Maps Made Simple Plugin</a> allows a user to add Google Maps to a Wordpress post and allow the user to set the zoom level and the width and the height of the map.</p>\";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:34:\"Dougal Campbell: Another new start\";s:4:\"guid\";s:59:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/06/13/another-new-start\";s:4:\"link\";s:59:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/06/13/another-new-start\";s:11:\"description\";s:1398:\"<div class=\"pull-quote\"><a href=\"http://freeiq.com/\"><img src=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/pics/freiq-logo_beta.jpg\" alt=\"Free IQ - The Marketplace for Ideas\" /></a></div>\n<p>About two weeks ago, I started a new job (which explains at least part of my blogging lull, you see). I\'m working on <a href=\"http://freeiq.com/\">Free IQ</a>, which is a streaming media site for entrepreneurs. There\'s more to it than just the streaming media (you can upload video, audio, <acronym title=\"Portable Document Format\"><span class=\"caps\">PDF</span></acronym> files, PowerPoint presentations, etc.), but I\'m still learning the ins and outs, so I don\'t know the full scope yet.\n</p>\n<p>\nWhen I interviewed, they were favorably impressed by the fact that I\'m a <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a> developer. This is something that our industry is seeing more and more of -- involvement in open source projects is often a good selling point in your resume. Several people have come by to ask me WordPress questions, and more than once I\'ve been asked, \"you\'re the WordPress guy, right?\" I haven\'t actually done anything WP-related, yet, but I think that might come down the pipe one day.\n</p><p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=813&amp;akst_action=share-this\" title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_813\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This</a>\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:19:53 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1398:\"<div class=\"pull-quote\"><a href=\"http://freeiq.com/\"><img src=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/pics/freiq-logo_beta.jpg\" alt=\"Free IQ - The Marketplace for Ideas\" /></a></div>\n<p>About two weeks ago, I started a new job (which explains at least part of my blogging lull, you see). I\'m working on <a href=\"http://freeiq.com/\">Free IQ</a>, which is a streaming media site for entrepreneurs. There\'s more to it than just the streaming media (you can upload video, audio, <acronym title=\"Portable Document Format\"><span class=\"caps\">PDF</span></acronym> files, PowerPoint presentations, etc.), but I\'m still learning the ins and outs, so I don\'t know the full scope yet.\n</p>\n<p>\nWhen I interviewed, they were favorably impressed by the fact that I\'m a <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a> developer. This is something that our industry is seeing more and more of -- involvement in open source projects is often a good selling point in your resume. Several people have come by to ask me WordPress questions, and more than once I\'ve been asked, \"you\'re the WordPress guy, right?\" I haven\'t actually done anything WP-related, yet, but I think that might come down the pipe one day.\n</p><p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=813&amp;akst_action=share-this\" title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_813\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This</a>\n</p>\";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Plugin: Listen Button\";s:4:\"guid\";s:77:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/13/wp-plugin-listen-button/\";s:4:\"link\";s:77:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/13/wp-plugin-listen-button/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1053:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.odiogo.com/listen_button.php\">WP Plugin: Listen Button</a>: Create instant podcasts from your blog text with this plugin from <a href=\"http://odiogo.com/\">Odiogo.com</a>. It creates a &#8220;Listen&#8221; button on your blog that people can click to listen to the text of a post. The content is read by a machine and the voice stream is linked in a flash player format on your blog. The mp3 resides on the Odiogo server and can also be downloaded. <a href=\"http://podcasts.odiogo.com/weblog-tools-collection/podcasts-html.php\">Weblog Tools Collection can now be downloaded in a podcast format</a> with the help of this service. You can do the same for your blog by signing up for their podcast service.</p>\n<p>I am not sure this format makes sense for the staccato delivery of this blog but it might be a cool feature for blogs with longer articles and lesser linked content. At the very least, it is a noveltyÂ  for any blogger that always wanted to hear themselves type or something like that. The service is free as of now.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:15:25 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1053:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.odiogo.com/listen_button.php\">WP Plugin: Listen Button</a>: Create instant podcasts from your blog text with this plugin from <a href=\"http://odiogo.com/\">Odiogo.com</a>. It creates a &#8220;Listen&#8221; button on your blog that people can click to listen to the text of a post. The content is read by a machine and the voice stream is linked in a flash player format on your blog. The mp3 resides on the Odiogo server and can also be downloaded. <a href=\"http://podcasts.odiogo.com/weblog-tools-collection/podcasts-html.php\">Weblog Tools Collection can now be downloaded in a podcast format</a> with the help of this service. You can do the same for your blog by signing up for their podcast service.</p>\n<p>I am not sure this format makes sense for the staccato delivery of this blog but it might be a cool feature for blogs with longer articles and lesser linked content. At the very least, it is a noveltyÂ  for any blogger that always wanted to hear themselves type or something like that. The service is free as of now.</p>\";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Adding Custom WordPress Hooks\";s:4:\"guid\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/13/adding-custom-wordpress-hooks/\";s:4:\"link\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/13/adding-custom-wordpress-hooks/\";s:11:\"description\";s:352:\"<p><a href=\"http://extralogical.net/2007/06/wphooks/\">Adding Custom WordPress Hooks</a>: This migt be an interesting article for Theme and Plugin authors looking to enhance the functionality of their themes and plugins. Though the procedure is not complex, most of the questions I get surrounding plugin  development centers around Wordpress hooks.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:00:21 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:352:\"<p><a href=\"http://extralogical.net/2007/06/wphooks/\">Adding Custom WordPress Hooks</a>: This migt be an interesting article for Theme and Plugin authors looking to enhance the functionality of their themes and plugins. Though the procedure is not complex, most of the questions I get surrounding plugin  development centers around Wordpress hooks.</p>\";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Theme Releases for 6/13\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/13/wordpress-theme-releases-for-613/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/13/wordpress-theme-releases-for-613/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4015:\"<p><a href=\"http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/06/08/bruce/\">Bruce</a> is a three column fluid layout theme that is widget ready with multiple columns at the front page. There is also a cross fader built in. <a href=\"http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/06/08/row/\">Row</a> is a also a three column fluid layout theme in the magazine style with two mini loops displaying two separate categories. Both themes are artsy and designed by Milo.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://biboz.net/dimension/\">Dimension</a> is a two column, somewhat two dimensional theme for Wordpress designed in gray and black.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.garryvandervoort.com/\">Lovecraft</a> is a three column, blocky simple, colorful and widget ready theme for Wordpress. It is Garry&#8217;s first theme.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.connorwilson.com/2007/06/10/introducing_the_ministry_theme_for_wordpress/\">Ministry</a> is a two column, wide, clean and clear theme for Wordpress in shades of lighter blue. The design reminds me of some Drupal themes.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://journal.barleyhut.com/the-gathering-wordpress-theme/\">Gathering</a> has been updated from the inside out. Now it is a modern, subdued theme with two columns, a fixed width, sidebar widgets ready, and will work with Wordpress 2.0 and above.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://mnogo.truden.com/archives/156.html\">Stockholm</a> is a three column, widget ready theme for Wordpress with rounded edges and a very interesting set of header and footer pictures. The screenshot does not do it justice, you have to check out the demo to get the full effect.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.solostream.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-blog-theme-suhweet-10-widgets/\">Suhweet 1.0</a>, <a href=\"http://www.solostream.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-blog-theme-simplicity-10-widgets/\">Simplicity 1.0</a> and <a href=\"http://www.solostream.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-blog-theme-hottie-10-widgets/\">Hottie 1.0</a> are three themes from Solostream. I really, <em>really</em> like Suhweet. Simplicity looks like a modification of Suhweet and Hottie is a two column version. Suhweet has recent and featured articles built in and there is a lot going on in the theme. They all look quite professional. All three have ad spaces built in.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.paggu.com/?p=10\">PDawn</a> is a widget ready, two column, simple and usable theme for Wordpress with a black outer background and a light reading area.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/06/12/harmony-052b-theme-available/\">Harmony</a> is a 2 column, fixed width, widget ready, earthy and brown coloured theme, with a flower header image. It requires Dunstan-like error pages and has been optimised for UTW plugins and Share This.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://wpthemesplugin.com/fourwptp-4-column-widget-ready-wordpress-theme/\">FourWPTP</a> is a four column, somewhat busy theme for Wordpress that is designed on red and gary. It is widget ready. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://board.themevibes.com/wordpress-themes/93-wordpress-theme-natura.html\">Natura</a> is a flowery, dark purple with green edge theme for Wordpress. The header and the edges give it a nice appeal. Also check out <a href=\"http://board.themevibes.com/wordpress-themes/96-wordpress-theme-felix.html\">Felix</a> from the same author. (Contains lots of Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic.php?id=994\">NoMorals</a> is a two column, simplistic theme built on red and gray. (Contains lots of Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.ygosearch.com/seoblog/?p=66\">YGO Assorted</a> is a three column, green clean theme for Wordpress that looks fresh.  (Contains lots of Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p>So are you addicted to these regular theme and plugin postings? Do you like to keep your finger on the Wordpress plugin and theme news?<strike> Would you like to help write these posts and make some money? Please <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/\">contact me</a> with some details on your blogging past</strike></p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:45:16 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4015:\"<p><a href=\"http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/06/08/bruce/\">Bruce</a> is a three column fluid layout theme that is widget ready with multiple columns at the front page. There is also a cross fader built in. <a href=\"http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/06/08/row/\">Row</a> is a also a three column fluid layout theme in the magazine style with two mini loops displaying two separate categories. Both themes are artsy and designed by Milo.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://biboz.net/dimension/\">Dimension</a> is a two column, somewhat two dimensional theme for Wordpress designed in gray and black.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.garryvandervoort.com/\">Lovecraft</a> is a three column, blocky simple, colorful and widget ready theme for Wordpress. It is Garry&#8217;s first theme.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.connorwilson.com/2007/06/10/introducing_the_ministry_theme_for_wordpress/\">Ministry</a> is a two column, wide, clean and clear theme for Wordpress in shades of lighter blue. The design reminds me of some Drupal themes.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://journal.barleyhut.com/the-gathering-wordpress-theme/\">Gathering</a> has been updated from the inside out. Now it is a modern, subdued theme with two columns, a fixed width, sidebar widgets ready, and will work with Wordpress 2.0 and above.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://mnogo.truden.com/archives/156.html\">Stockholm</a> is a three column, widget ready theme for Wordpress with rounded edges and a very interesting set of header and footer pictures. The screenshot does not do it justice, you have to check out the demo to get the full effect.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.solostream.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-blog-theme-suhweet-10-widgets/\">Suhweet 1.0</a>, <a href=\"http://www.solostream.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-blog-theme-simplicity-10-widgets/\">Simplicity 1.0</a> and <a href=\"http://www.solostream.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-blog-theme-hottie-10-widgets/\">Hottie 1.0</a> are three themes from Solostream. I really, <em>really</em> like Suhweet. Simplicity looks like a modification of Suhweet and Hottie is a two column version. Suhweet has recent and featured articles built in and there is a lot going on in the theme. They all look quite professional. All three have ad spaces built in.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.paggu.com/?p=10\">PDawn</a> is a widget ready, two column, simple and usable theme for Wordpress with a black outer background and a light reading area.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/06/12/harmony-052b-theme-available/\">Harmony</a> is a 2 column, fixed width, widget ready, earthy and brown coloured theme, with a flower header image. It requires Dunstan-like error pages and has been optimised for UTW plugins and Share This.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://wpthemesplugin.com/fourwptp-4-column-widget-ready-wordpress-theme/\">FourWPTP</a> is a four column, somewhat busy theme for Wordpress that is designed on red and gary. It is widget ready. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://board.themevibes.com/wordpress-themes/93-wordpress-theme-natura.html\">Natura</a> is a flowery, dark purple with green edge theme for Wordpress. The header and the edges give it a nice appeal. Also check out <a href=\"http://board.themevibes.com/wordpress-themes/96-wordpress-theme-felix.html\">Felix</a> from the same author. (Contains lots of Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic.php?id=994\">NoMorals</a> is a two column, simplistic theme built on red and gray. (Contains lots of Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.ygosearch.com/seoblog/?p=66\">YGO Assorted</a> is a three column, green clean theme for Wordpress that looks fresh.  (Contains lots of Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p>So are you addicted to these regular theme and plugin postings? Do you like to keep your finger on the Wordpress plugin and theme news?<strike> Would you like to help write these posts and make some money? Please <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/\">contact me</a> with some details on your blogging past</strike></p>\";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:18:\"Matt: Schwag Cache\";s:4:\"guid\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/12/schwag-cache/\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/12/schwag-cache/\";s:11:\"description\";s:120:\"<p><a href=\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/11/wordpress-schwag-cache/\">Ryan geo-cached some WordPress goodies</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:10:40 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:120:\"<p><a href=\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/11/wordpress-schwag-cache/\">Ryan geo-cached some WordPress goodies</a>.</p>\";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"bbPress: Meetup Aftermath\";s:4:\"guid\";s:49:\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2007/06/meetup-aftermath/\";s:4:\"link\";s:49:\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2007/06/meetup-aftermath/\";s:11:\"description\";s:468:\"<p>The <a href=\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2007/06/bbpress-meetup/\">meetup yesterday</a> was really enjoyable, lot&#8217;s of good ideas about how bbPress is going to evolve in the future. <a href=\"http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2007/06/12/wwdc-bbpress-meetup-wrap-up/\">Doug Stewart has a pretty thorough write-up of the night</a>, including the movie interlude afterward. Hopefully like R. Kelly, bbPress development will no longer be trapped in the closet.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:24:49 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:468:\"<p>The <a href=\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2007/06/bbpress-meetup/\">meetup yesterday</a> was really enjoyable, lot&#8217;s of good ideas about how bbPress is going to evolve in the future. <a href=\"http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2007/06/12/wwdc-bbpress-meetup-wrap-up/\">Doug Stewart has a pretty thorough write-up of the night</a>, including the movie interlude afterward. Hopefully like R. Kelly, bbPress development will no longer be trapped in the closet.</p>\";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Matt: Flickr Switches to WP\";s:4:\"guid\";s:54:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/12/flickr-switches-to-wp/\";s:4:\"link\";s:54:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/12/flickr-switches-to-wp/\";s:11:\"description\";s:447:\"<p>The <a href=\"http://blog.flickr.com/en\">official Flickr blog</a> has switched from Typepad to become a <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/\">WordPress.com VIP</a> and <a href=\"http://blog.flickr.com/en/2007/06/12/flickr-international-launch/\">introduced some cool language features</a> in the process. We&#8217;re all such big fans of Flickr and their team it&#8217;s been a real pleasure to work with them and have them on WordPress.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:38:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:447:\"<p>The <a href=\"http://blog.flickr.com/en\">official Flickr blog</a> has switched from Typepad to become a <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/\">WordPress.com VIP</a> and <a href=\"http://blog.flickr.com/en/2007/06/12/flickr-international-launch/\">introduced some cool language features</a> in the process. We&#8217;re all such big fans of Flickr and their team it&#8217;s been a real pleasure to work with them and have them on WordPress.</p>\";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:22:\"Dev Blog: Two Contests\";s:4:\"guid\";s:54:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/two-contests/\";s:4:\"link\";s:54:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/two-contests/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1219:\"<p>There are two contests going on in the WordPress community right now. If you&#8217;d like a chance to flex your WordPress skillz and perhaps win a prize and lifelong fame, you should consider dropping your code in the hat.</p>\n<p>The first is the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\">Sandbox Designs competition</a>, which is like a theme competition, but working only with CSS and the highly semantic Sandbox theme. They already have a thousand dollars in prizes, so <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\">check it out</a>.</p>\n<p>Second our friends at Weblog Tools Collection are running a <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/01/wordpress-plugin-competition-started/\">WordPress Plugin competition</a>. They <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\">have a blog</a> to track all the entries, but if you&#8217;re participating don&#8217;t forget to submit your code to the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/\">Plugin directory</a>.</p>\n<p>Both competitions require entries to be under the same GPL license that WordPress is, so regardless of who wins they&#8217;ll make the entire community much richer. (Remember, WordPress itself was written on the base of existing GPL code!)</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:12:40 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1219:\"<p>There are two contests going on in the WordPress community right now. If you&#8217;d like a chance to flex your WordPress skillz and perhaps win a prize and lifelong fame, you should consider dropping your code in the hat.</p>\n<p>The first is the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\">Sandbox Designs competition</a>, which is like a theme competition, but working only with CSS and the highly semantic Sandbox theme. They already have a thousand dollars in prizes, so <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\">check it out</a>.</p>\n<p>Second our friends at Weblog Tools Collection are running a <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/01/wordpress-plugin-competition-started/\">WordPress Plugin competition</a>. They <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\">have a blog</a> to track all the entries, but if you&#8217;re participating don&#8217;t forget to submit your code to the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/\">Plugin directory</a>.</p>\n<p>Both competitions require entries to be under the same GPL license that WordPress is, so regardless of who wins they&#8217;ll make the entire community much richer. (Remember, WordPress itself was written on the base of existing GPL code!)</p>\";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:22:\"Matt: Playstation Blog\";s:4:\"guid\";s:49:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/12/playstation-blog/\";s:4:\"link\";s:49:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/12/playstation-blog/\";s:11:\"description\";s:177:\"<p><a href=\"http://blog.us.playstation.com/\">The Sony Playstation now has a blog</a> and they&#8217;re using WordPress. Hat tip: <a href=\"http://smikwily.com/\">smikwily</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:56:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:177:\"<p><a href=\"http://blog.us.playstation.com/\">The Sony Playstation now has a blog</a> and they&#8217;re using WordPress. Hat tip: <a href=\"http://smikwily.com/\">smikwily</a>.</p>\";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Definitive collection of RSS Tools\";s:4:\"guid\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/12/definitive-collection-of-rss-tools/\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/12/definitive-collection-of-rss-tools/\";s:11:\"description\";s:321:\"<p><a href=\"http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/rss-toolbox/\">The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources</a> from Mashable. Overwhelming at first but the list will be useful later. Flickr also has many such lists of tools and they come in handy when you need a tool and cannot remember the Web 2.0 name for the service.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:00:28 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:321:\"<p><a href=\"http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/rss-toolbox/\">The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources</a> from Mashable. Overwhelming at first but the list will be useful later. Flickr also has many such lists of tools and they come in handy when you need a tool and cannot remember the Web 2.0 name for the service.</p>\";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Weblog Tools Collection: reinvigorate Desktop Analyzer\";s:4:\"guid\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/12/reinvigorate-desktop-analyzer/\";s:4:\"link\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/12/reinvigorate-desktop-analyzer/\";s:11:\"description\";s:771:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.reinvigorate.net/\">reinvigorate Desktop Analyzer</a>: reinvigorate is offering an application that provides real time streaming web events from your blog or website to your desktop. They call this application <a href=\"http://report.reinvigorate.net/snoop\">Snoop</a>. I really <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/06/whosamungus/\">missed this feature</a> that existed in past incarnations of reinvigorate. I have said in the past that I am a sucker for stats and this just tickles the stats funny bone. reinvigorate, if you are not aware, already provides <a href=\"http://www.jonholato.com/2007/05/25/reinvigorate-private-beta-review/\">a whole bunch of analytics</a> that rival Google Analytics in features and performance.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:30:41 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:771:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.reinvigorate.net/\">reinvigorate Desktop Analyzer</a>: reinvigorate is offering an application that provides real time streaming web events from your blog or website to your desktop. They call this application <a href=\"http://report.reinvigorate.net/snoop\">Snoop</a>. I really <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/06/whosamungus/\">missed this feature</a> that existed in past incarnations of reinvigorate. I have said in the past that I am a sucker for stats and this just tickles the stats funny bone. reinvigorate, if you are not aware, already provides <a href=\"http://www.jonholato.com/2007/05/25/reinvigorate-private-beta-review/\">a whole bunch of analytics</a> that rival Google Analytics in features and performance.</p>\";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:64:\"Lorelle on WP: WordPress.com Announces Strong Password Indicator\";s:4:\"guid\";s:89:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/wordpresscom-announces-strong-password-indicator/\";s:4:\"link\";s:89:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/wordpresscom-announces-strong-password-indicator/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3123:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p>In a recent announcement, <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/06/07/how-strong-is-your-password/\" title=\"How Strong is Your WordPress.com Password\">WordPress.com asks &#8220;How Strong is Your Password&#8221;</a>, highlighting a new feature on your password update panel that measures the &#8220;strength&#8221; of your password.</p>\n<p>I recently wrote an article on the Blog Herald called <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/08/protect-your-blog-with-a-solid-password/\" title=\"Protect Your Blog With a Solid Password\">Protect Your Blog With a Solid Password</a>, offering tips and tricks to help create a strong password that is also memorable, and how to deal with all the myriad passwords we seem to accumulate online.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /><br />\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpressdotcom\" rel=\"tag\">wordpressdotcom</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress.com\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress.com</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress.com+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress.com news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=password\" rel=\"tag\">password</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=password+protection\" rel=\"tag\">password protection</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=strong+passwords\" rel=\"tag\">strong passwords</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=protect+your+blog\" rel=\"tag\">protect your blog</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=blog+passwords\" rel=\"tag\">blog passwords</a> <br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:45:34 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:17:\"Lorelle VanFossen\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3123:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p>In a recent announcement, <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/06/07/how-strong-is-your-password/\" title=\"How Strong is Your WordPress.com Password\">WordPress.com asks &#8220;How Strong is Your Password&#8221;</a>, highlighting a new feature on your password update panel that measures the &#8220;strength&#8221; of your password.</p>\n<p>I recently wrote an article on the Blog Herald called <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/08/protect-your-blog-with-a-solid-password/\" title=\"Protect Your Blog With a Solid Password\">Protect Your Blog With a Solid Password</a>, offering tips and tricks to help create a strong password that is also memorable, and how to deal with all the myriad passwords we seem to accumulate online.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /><br />\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpressdotcom\" rel=\"tag\">wordpressdotcom</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress.com\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress.com</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress.com+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress.com news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=password\" rel=\"tag\">password</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=password+protection\" rel=\"tag\">password protection</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=strong+passwords\" rel=\"tag\">strong passwords</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=protect+your+blog\" rel=\"tag\">protect your blog</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=blog+passwords\" rel=\"tag\">blog passwords</a> <br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:34:\"Ryan Boren: WordPress Schwag Cache\";s:4:\"guid\";s:59:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/11/wordpress-schwag-cache/\";s:4:\"link\";s:59:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/11/wordpress-schwag-cache/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4003:\"<p>If you&#8217;re in the Silicon Valley area, grab your <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gps_receiver\">GPSr</a> and navigate to <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=N+37+11.329+W+121+50.846&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.189425,-121.847477&amp;spn=0.003701,0.010042&amp;t=h&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\">N 37Â° 11.329&#8242;, W 121Â° 50.846&#8242;</a>.  There you will find a <a href=\"http://www.geocaching.com/about/\">geocache</a> filled with <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a> schwag.  Two .50 caliber ammo boxes hold WP stickers and t-shirts.  You have your choice of <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/455996447/\">black</a> or <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/522152638/\">red</a> t-shirts.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/541294884/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1114/541294884_73b50e375d.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3422\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" /></a></p>\n<p>To get there, start at the Mockingbird Hill entrance of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaden_Quicksilver_County_Park\">Almaden Quicksilver Park</a> at  <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=N+37+11.594+W+121+50.191&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.193638,-121.836587&amp;spn=0.003436,0.010042&amp;t=h&amp;z=17&amp;om=1\">N 37Â° 11.594&#8242;, W 121Â° 50.191&#8242;</a>. There is a big parking lot here as well as water and restrooms.  Grab a <a href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FParks%20and%20Recreation%2C%20Department%20of%20%28DEP%29%2FAlmadenQuicksilverGuideMap.pdf\">map</a> at the trail head and head out on New Almaden Trail.  Take New Almaden trail approximately 1.4 miles until you reach <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=N+37+11.475+W+121+50.832&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.191245,-121.847042&amp;spn=0.001718,0.005021&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;om=1\">N 37Â° 11.475&#8242;, W 121Â° 50.832&#8242;</a>.  From there, head uphill along an unmarked but well-used trail that runs between New Almaden trail and Randol trail.  There&#8217;s no sign post, but the trail is <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/541395357/\">easy to spot</a>.  Take this trail a quarter mile to get to the cache.  If you want a big hint as to where to look (cheater), <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/541296052/\">this gives it away</a>.  The cache consists of two ammo boxes.  Make sure to check them both.  Shirts are available from S to XXL in both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s sizes.  Please don&#8217;t bankrupt the cache. Take only one shirt per person.  Stickers I have plenty of, so feel free to take extra stickers. Before leaving, make sure everything goes back in the ammo cans and that the cans are fully latched.   From here, you can keep heading uphill for some nice views of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaden_Valley\">Almaden Valley</a>, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley\">Santa Clara Valley</a>, and the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains\">Santa Cruz mountains</a>.  Use your new t-shirt to wipe the sweat from your brow as you climb.</p>\n<p>Beware of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Poison-oak\">Western Poison Oak</a> while on your hike.  It is everywhere.  There are usually plenty of opportunities to observe wildlife.  Be on the watch for deer, wild turkeys, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_quail\">California quail</a>, birds of prey, lots of lizards, and <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_snake\">gopher snakes</a>.  Mountain Lions live in this area, but they are a rare sighting.  I&#8217;ve spotted a few coyotes in nearby parks, but never in Quicksilver.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/sets/72157600340797275/\">Here</a> are some photos of the route you will take, and <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/sets/72157594190334177/\">here</a> are photos from all over Almaden Quicksilver.  Enjoy your hike, and leave a comment on this post if you visit the cache.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:50:39 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4003:\"<p>If you&#8217;re in the Silicon Valley area, grab your <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gps_receiver\">GPSr</a> and navigate to <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=N+37+11.329+W+121+50.846&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.189425,-121.847477&amp;spn=0.003701,0.010042&amp;t=h&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\">N 37Â° 11.329&#8242;, W 121Â° 50.846&#8242;</a>.  There you will find a <a href=\"http://www.geocaching.com/about/\">geocache</a> filled with <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a> schwag.  Two .50 caliber ammo boxes hold WP stickers and t-shirts.  You have your choice of <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/455996447/\">black</a> or <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/522152638/\">red</a> t-shirts.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/541294884/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1114/541294884_73b50e375d.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3422\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" /></a></p>\n<p>To get there, start at the Mockingbird Hill entrance of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaden_Quicksilver_County_Park\">Almaden Quicksilver Park</a> at  <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=N+37+11.594+W+121+50.191&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.193638,-121.836587&amp;spn=0.003436,0.010042&amp;t=h&amp;z=17&amp;om=1\">N 37Â° 11.594&#8242;, W 121Â° 50.191&#8242;</a>. There is a big parking lot here as well as water and restrooms.  Grab a <a href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FParks%20and%20Recreation%2C%20Department%20of%20%28DEP%29%2FAlmadenQuicksilverGuideMap.pdf\">map</a> at the trail head and head out on New Almaden Trail.  Take New Almaden trail approximately 1.4 miles until you reach <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=N+37+11.475+W+121+50.832&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.191245,-121.847042&amp;spn=0.001718,0.005021&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;om=1\">N 37Â° 11.475&#8242;, W 121Â° 50.832&#8242;</a>.  From there, head uphill along an unmarked but well-used trail that runs between New Almaden trail and Randol trail.  There&#8217;s no sign post, but the trail is <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/541395357/\">easy to spot</a>.  Take this trail a quarter mile to get to the cache.  If you want a big hint as to where to look (cheater), <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/541296052/\">this gives it away</a>.  The cache consists of two ammo boxes.  Make sure to check them both.  Shirts are available from S to XXL in both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s sizes.  Please don&#8217;t bankrupt the cache. Take only one shirt per person.  Stickers I have plenty of, so feel free to take extra stickers. Before leaving, make sure everything goes back in the ammo cans and that the cans are fully latched.   From here, you can keep heading uphill for some nice views of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaden_Valley\">Almaden Valley</a>, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley\">Santa Clara Valley</a>, and the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains\">Santa Cruz mountains</a>.  Use your new t-shirt to wipe the sweat from your brow as you climb.</p>\n<p>Beware of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Poison-oak\">Western Poison Oak</a> while on your hike.  It is everywhere.  There are usually plenty of opportunities to observe wildlife.  Be on the watch for deer, wild turkeys, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_quail\">California quail</a>, birds of prey, lots of lizards, and <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_snake\">gopher snakes</a>.  Mountain Lions live in this area, but they are a rare sighting.  I&#8217;ve spotted a few coyotes in nearby parks, but never in Quicksilver.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/sets/72157600340797275/\">Here</a> are some photos of the route you will take, and <a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/ryanboren/sets/72157594190334177/\">here</a> are photos from all over Almaden Quicksilver.  Enjoy your hike, and leave a comment on this post if you visit the cache.</p>\";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:46:\"Lorelle on WP: WordPress News You Need To Know\";s:4:\"guid\";s:72:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-news-you-need-to-know/\";s:4:\"link\";s:72:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/wordpress-news-you-need-to-know/\";s:11:\"description\";s:7988:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress News\"><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\" alt=\"WordPress News\" align=\"right\" /></a>In case you missed it, every Wednesday on the <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/\" title=\"Blog Herald\" rel=\"tag\">Blog Herald</a> I post a summary of the week&#8217;s WordPress news.</p>\n<p>I cover WordPress updates and security releases, troubles and praises with WordPress, WordPress Themes and Plugins news, fixes, and developments, news about WordPress.com, the hottest blogs and posts on WordPress.com, WordPress events, and other events, news, and activities around the WordPress community.</p>\n<p>I also feature a wide range of WordPress tips and tutorials including podcasts, screencasts, and videos. Each week, the post is crammed with a ton of the WordPress news you can use.</p>\n<p>Here are a few of the most recent posts, in case you missed a piece of WordPress news you need to know.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/06/06/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-plugin-and-sandbox-theme-competitions-hot-new-wordpress-plugins-put-post-preview-back-and-stop-blaming-wordpress/\" title=\"WordPress Plugin and Sandbox Theme Competitions, Hot New WordPress Plugins, Put Post Preview Back, and Stop Blaming WordPress\">WordPress Plugin and Sandbox Theme Competitions, Hot New WordPress Plugins, Put Post Preview Back, and Stop Blaming WordPress</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/30/wordpress-wednesday-news-1-million-wordpresscom-blogs-wordpress-22-upgrade-tips-news-on-wordpress-23-wordpress-plugin-competition-and-more/\" title=\"1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, WordPress 2.2 Upgrade Tips, News on WordPress 2.3, WordPress Plugin Competition, and More\">1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, WordPress 2.2 Upgrade Tips, News on WordPress 2.3, WordPress Plugin Competition, and More</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/23/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-22-now-mandatory-wordpresscom-to-break-1-million-blogs-blog-to-wordpress-from-anywhere-and-wordpress-beats-blogger/\" title=\"WordPress 2.2 Now Mandatory, WordPress.com to Break 1 Million Blogs, Blog to WordPress from Anywhere, and WordPress Beats Blogger\">WordPress 2.2 Now Mandatory, WordPress.com to Break 1 Million Blogs, Blog to WordPress from Anywhere, and WordPress Beats Blogger</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/16/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-22-released-top-bloggers-blogging-with-wordpress-more-wordpress-videos-and-wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress 2.2 Released, Top Bloggers Blogging With WordPress, More WordPress Videos, and WordPress News\">WordPress 2.2 Released, Top Bloggers Blogging With WordPress, More WordPress Videos, and WordPress News</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/09/wordpress-wednesday-news-automattic-stats-wordpress-plugin-released-twitter-plugin-and-global-translator-updated-and-lots-of-wordpress-tutorial-videos/\" title=\"Automattic Stats WordPress Plugin Released, Twitter Plugin and Global Translator Updated, and Lots of WordPress Tutorial Videos\">Automattic Stats WordPress Plugin Released, Twitter Plugin and Global Translator Updated, and Lots of WordPress Tutorial Videos</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/02/wordpress-wednesday-news-almost-1-million-wordpresscom-blogs-over-4-million-themes-downloaded-and-you-want-more-news/\" title=\"Almost 1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, Over 4 Million Themes Downloaded, and You Want More News?\">Almost 1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, Over 4 Million Themes Downloaded, and You Want More News?</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/25/wordpress-wednesday-news-4-million-themes-downloaded-wordpress-22-delayed-and-tons-of-new-fun-on-wordpresscom/\" title=\"4 Million Themes Downloaded, WordPress 2.2 Delayed, and Tons of New Fun on WordPress.com\">4 Million Themes Downloaded, WordPress 2.2 Delayed, and Tons of New Fun on WordPress.com</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/18/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-22-due-monday-sponsored-wordpress-themes-wordpresscom-splog-fighter-and-more/\" title=\"WordPress 2.2 Due Monday, Sponsored WordPress Themes, WordPress.com Splog Fighter, and More\">WordPress 2.2 Due Monday, Sponsored WordPress Themes, WordPress.com Splog Fighter, and More</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/11/wordpress-wednesday-news-security-release-hot-tips-for-wordpress-bloggers-and-a-wordpress-plugin-for-your-next-of-kin/\" title=\"Security Release, Hot Tips for WordPress Bloggers, and a WordPress Plugin for Your Next of Kin\">Security Release, Hot Tips for WordPress Bloggers, and a WordPress Plugin for Your Next of Kin</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/04/wordpress-wednesday-new-security-release-updated-wordpressmu-more-wordpress-plugins-and-time-to-get-naked/\" title=\"New Security Release, Updated WordPressMU, More WordPress Plugins, and Time to Get Naked\">New Security Release, Updated WordPressMU, More WordPress Plugins, and Time to Get Naked</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>You can keep updated on with the <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/category/wordpress/feed/\" title=\"Blog Herald WordPress Category RSS Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a>  <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/category/wordpress/feed/\" title=\"Blog Herald WordPress Category RSS Feed\">Blog Herald WordPress Category RSS Feed</a> in your feed reader.</p>\n<p>As part of my work writing these posts every week, I&#8217;m always looking for information, tips, articles to recommend, and events to promote. If you have WordPress information worth sharing, you can contact me via a special email address at &#108;&#111;&#114;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#101;&#111;&#110;&#119;&#111;&#114;&#100;&#112;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#103;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+wednesday\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress wednesday</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+wednesday+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress wednesday news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=blog+herald\" rel=\"tag\">blog herald</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=lorelle+on+wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">lorelle on wordpress</a> <br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:37:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:17:\"Lorelle VanFossen\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:7988:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress News\"><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\" alt=\"WordPress News\" align=\"right\" /></a>In case you missed it, every Wednesday on the <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/\" title=\"Blog Herald\" rel=\"tag\">Blog Herald</a> I post a summary of the week&#8217;s WordPress news.</p>\n<p>I cover WordPress updates and security releases, troubles and praises with WordPress, WordPress Themes and Plugins news, fixes, and developments, news about WordPress.com, the hottest blogs and posts on WordPress.com, WordPress events, and other events, news, and activities around the WordPress community.</p>\n<p>I also feature a wide range of WordPress tips and tutorials including podcasts, screencasts, and videos. Each week, the post is crammed with a ton of the WordPress news you can use.</p>\n<p>Here are a few of the most recent posts, in case you missed a piece of WordPress news you need to know.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/06/06/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-plugin-and-sandbox-theme-competitions-hot-new-wordpress-plugins-put-post-preview-back-and-stop-blaming-wordpress/\" title=\"WordPress Plugin and Sandbox Theme Competitions, Hot New WordPress Plugins, Put Post Preview Back, and Stop Blaming WordPress\">WordPress Plugin and Sandbox Theme Competitions, Hot New WordPress Plugins, Put Post Preview Back, and Stop Blaming WordPress</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/30/wordpress-wednesday-news-1-million-wordpresscom-blogs-wordpress-22-upgrade-tips-news-on-wordpress-23-wordpress-plugin-competition-and-more/\" title=\"1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, WordPress 2.2 Upgrade Tips, News on WordPress 2.3, WordPress Plugin Competition, and More\">1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, WordPress 2.2 Upgrade Tips, News on WordPress 2.3, WordPress Plugin Competition, and More</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/23/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-22-now-mandatory-wordpresscom-to-break-1-million-blogs-blog-to-wordpress-from-anywhere-and-wordpress-beats-blogger/\" title=\"WordPress 2.2 Now Mandatory, WordPress.com to Break 1 Million Blogs, Blog to WordPress from Anywhere, and WordPress Beats Blogger\">WordPress 2.2 Now Mandatory, WordPress.com to Break 1 Million Blogs, Blog to WordPress from Anywhere, and WordPress Beats Blogger</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/16/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-22-released-top-bloggers-blogging-with-wordpress-more-wordpress-videos-and-wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress 2.2 Released, Top Bloggers Blogging With WordPress, More WordPress Videos, and WordPress News\">WordPress 2.2 Released, Top Bloggers Blogging With WordPress, More WordPress Videos, and WordPress News</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/09/wordpress-wednesday-news-automattic-stats-wordpress-plugin-released-twitter-plugin-and-global-translator-updated-and-lots-of-wordpress-tutorial-videos/\" title=\"Automattic Stats WordPress Plugin Released, Twitter Plugin and Global Translator Updated, and Lots of WordPress Tutorial Videos\">Automattic Stats WordPress Plugin Released, Twitter Plugin and Global Translator Updated, and Lots of WordPress Tutorial Videos</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/02/wordpress-wednesday-news-almost-1-million-wordpresscom-blogs-over-4-million-themes-downloaded-and-you-want-more-news/\" title=\"Almost 1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, Over 4 Million Themes Downloaded, and You Want More News?\">Almost 1 Million WordPress.com Blogs, Over 4 Million Themes Downloaded, and You Want More News?</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/25/wordpress-wednesday-news-4-million-themes-downloaded-wordpress-22-delayed-and-tons-of-new-fun-on-wordpresscom/\" title=\"4 Million Themes Downloaded, WordPress 2.2 Delayed, and Tons of New Fun on WordPress.com\">4 Million Themes Downloaded, WordPress 2.2 Delayed, and Tons of New Fun on WordPress.com</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/18/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordpress-22-due-monday-sponsored-wordpress-themes-wordpresscom-splog-fighter-and-more/\" title=\"WordPress 2.2 Due Monday, Sponsored WordPress Themes, WordPress.com Splog Fighter, and More\">WordPress 2.2 Due Monday, Sponsored WordPress Themes, WordPress.com Splog Fighter, and More</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/11/wordpress-wednesday-news-security-release-hot-tips-for-wordpress-bloggers-and-a-wordpress-plugin-for-your-next-of-kin/\" title=\"Security Release, Hot Tips for WordPress Bloggers, and a WordPress Plugin for Your Next of Kin\">Security Release, Hot Tips for WordPress Bloggers, and a WordPress Plugin for Your Next of Kin</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/04/04/wordpress-wednesday-new-security-release-updated-wordpressmu-more-wordpress-plugins-and-time-to-get-naked/\" title=\"New Security Release, Updated WordPressMU, More WordPress Plugins, and Time to Get Naked\">New Security Release, Updated WordPressMU, More WordPress Plugins, and Time to Get Naked</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>You can keep updated on with the <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/category/wordpress/feed/\" title=\"Blog Herald WordPress Category RSS Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a>  <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/category/wordpress/feed/\" title=\"Blog Herald WordPress Category RSS Feed\">Blog Herald WordPress Category RSS Feed</a> in your feed reader.</p>\n<p>As part of my work writing these posts every week, I&#8217;m always looking for information, tips, articles to recommend, and events to promote. If you have WordPress information worth sharing, you can contact me via a special email address at &#108;&#111;&#114;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#101;&#111;&#110;&#119;&#111;&#114;&#100;&#112;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#103;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+wednesday\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress wednesday</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+wednesday+news\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress wednesday news</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=blog+herald\" rel=\"tag\">blog herald</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=lorelle+on+wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">lorelle on wordpress</a> <br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Weblog Tools Collection: 11 Jobs\";s:4:\"guid\";s:61:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/10/11-jobs/\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/10/11-jobs/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2069:\"<p><a href=\"http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?q=blogger\">11 Jobs</a>: I was writing an article/paper on social media and blogger jobs and by some unknown quirk of fate, I decided to search Monster for jobs with the word &#8220;blogger&#8221; in the title. It returned 11 jobs (!?!!?). The number of results left me dumbfounded. Is corporate America really that naiive? Is blogging still a fad that cool CEOs just happen to do when they feel like berating their closest competitor? Is blogging a niche that only matters if you happen to be in an industry that directly benefits from it? Are we, as a community of bloggers, doing enough to tell the corporate world that blogging is important, useful and finally a very powerful and personal means of communicating directly with your customers? I believe that much of corporate America still thinks that blogging and bloggers provide a slight competitive advantage and nothing more. There are some people making an independant (spelled entrepreneurial) living on blogging but I think the benefits are lost in translation.</p>\n<p>I break because I know that <a href=\"http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/\">there</a> <a href=\"http://direct2dell.com/one2one/default.aspx\">are</a> <a href=\"http://news.com.com/8300-10784_3-7-0.html?categoryId=1109\">many</a> <a href=\"http://www.buzzmachine.com/\">important</a> <a href=\"http://channel9.msdn.com/\">blogs</a> in the blogosphere. Some of these get the requisite amount of interest and attention that they deserve from their corporate beneficiaries. However, when will it become important to recruit talented folks that can help those important blogs become that much better or start a new blog to <a href=\"http://walmartingacrossamerica.com/\">communicate <span>real </span>intent</a> and direction to their customers? When will corporate America realize that a good blogger is just as much of a catch as a good programmer or a fine marketing exec?</p>\n<p>Blogging is mainstream, folks. Wake up and smell the eyeballs and opinions. Your company will be that much better for it.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:15:32 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2069:\"<p><a href=\"http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?q=blogger\">11 Jobs</a>: I was writing an article/paper on social media and blogger jobs and by some unknown quirk of fate, I decided to search Monster for jobs with the word &#8220;blogger&#8221; in the title. It returned 11 jobs (!?!!?). The number of results left me dumbfounded. Is corporate America really that naiive? Is blogging still a fad that cool CEOs just happen to do when they feel like berating their closest competitor? Is blogging a niche that only matters if you happen to be in an industry that directly benefits from it? Are we, as a community of bloggers, doing enough to tell the corporate world that blogging is important, useful and finally a very powerful and personal means of communicating directly with your customers? I believe that much of corporate America still thinks that blogging and bloggers provide a slight competitive advantage and nothing more. There are some people making an independant (spelled entrepreneurial) living on blogging but I think the benefits are lost in translation.</p>\n<p>I break because I know that <a href=\"http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/\">there</a> <a href=\"http://direct2dell.com/one2one/default.aspx\">are</a> <a href=\"http://news.com.com/8300-10784_3-7-0.html?categoryId=1109\">many</a> <a href=\"http://www.buzzmachine.com/\">important</a> <a href=\"http://channel9.msdn.com/\">blogs</a> in the blogosphere. Some of these get the requisite amount of interest and attention that they deserve from their corporate beneficiaries. However, when will it become important to recruit talented folks that can help those important blogs become that much better or start a new blog to <a href=\"http://walmartingacrossamerica.com/\">communicate <span>real </span>intent</a> and direction to their customers? When will corporate America realize that a good blogger is just as much of a catch as a good programmer or a fine marketing exec?</p>\n<p>Blogging is mainstream, folks. Wake up and smell the eyeballs and opinions. Your company will be that much better for it.</p>\";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Ryan Boren: GNOME goes WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:57:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/10/gnome-goes-wordpress/\";s:4:\"link\";s:57:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/10/gnome-goes-wordpress/\";s:11:\"description\";s:608:\"<p><a href=\"http://perkypants.org/blog/\">Jeff</a> dropped a note mentioning that <a href=\"http://www.gnome.org/\">GNOME</a> has gone with <a href=\"http://mu.wordpress.org/\">WordPress Âµ</a> on <a href=\"http://blogs.gnome.org/\">blogs.gnome.org</a>.  I used to contribute bits and pieces to GNOME before being consumed by WordPress full time.  I found out about WordPress through some GNOME developers.   I took some of the GNOME philosophy with me to WordPress and found that Matt shared much of it.  So I&#8217;m glad to see GNOME using WP and hope they will be as happy with it as I have been with GNOME.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:37:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:608:\"<p><a href=\"http://perkypants.org/blog/\">Jeff</a> dropped a note mentioning that <a href=\"http://www.gnome.org/\">GNOME</a> has gone with <a href=\"http://mu.wordpress.org/\">WordPress Âµ</a> on <a href=\"http://blogs.gnome.org/\">blogs.gnome.org</a>.  I used to contribute bits and pieces to GNOME before being consumed by WordPress full time.  I found out about WordPress through some GNOME developers.   I took some of the GNOME philosophy with me to WordPress and found that Matt shared much of it.  So I&#8217;m glad to see GNOME using WP and hope they will be as happy with it as I have been with GNOME.</p>\";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Lorelle on WP: James Farmer Takes on Edublogs.org Full-Time\";s:4:\"guid\";s:84:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/james-farmer-takes-on-edublogsorg-full-time/\";s:4:\"link\";s:84:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/james-farmer-takes-on-edublogsorg-full-time/\";s:11:\"description\";s:6219:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress News\"><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\" alt=\"WordPress News\" align=\"right\" /></a>It is with great joy that I announce that <a href=\"http://incsub.org/blog/2007/and-the-big-news-is\" title=\"And the big news isâ€¦\">James Farmer</a> of legendary <a href=\"http://www.edublogs.org\" title=\"Edublogs\" rel=\"tag\">Edublogs</a> and all its associated free blog services, is leaving his work with <a href=\"http://theage.com.au/\" title=\"The Age\">The Age</a> and going full-time to Edublogs.org.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Today I handed in my notice at The Age and come July 1st Iâ€™ll be working 100% for myself, the majority of the time on Edublogs and the rest doing consultancy, speaking, design &amp; development for education, media and community projects.</p>\n<p>Iâ€™ve always wanted to work for myself, and Edublogs is allowing me to do that. There are currently over 76,000 blogs on the sites and over 1100 new ones every week (well, each week or for the last three weeks at least), add to that the initial success of Edublogs Premium and some extensions Iâ€™ve got for that coming along with a couple of other ideas, and Iâ€™m aiming to turn it into a fully sustainable business within the next six months.</p></blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/edublogs.png\" alt=\"Edublogs logo\" align=\"left\" />I&#8217;ve admired James for a long time. He was so impressed with <a href=\"http://mu.wordpress.org/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"WordPressMU\">WordPressMU</a>, the WordPress multi-user version which <a href=\"http://www.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"WordPress.com\">WordPress.com</a> is based upon, that he was the first to put WordPressMU into action with Edublogs.org, bringing free blogs to teachers and educators and creating a community with a common theme: <em>education</em>.</p>\n<p>According to James, it is now the largest educational blogging site on the web. I say it&#8217;s the largest <em>educational community</em> on the web today. That&#8217;s quite an achievement in two years.</p>\n<p>I have written about <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/04/edublogsorg-providing-free-blogs-to-educators-and-students/\" title=\"Edublogs - Providing Free Blogs to Educators and Students\">Edublogs and James Farmer</a> <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/\" title=\"The Future of Education is in the Blogs\">many times</a> over the past two years and I&#8217;m totally thrilled he is making this huge leap of faith and giving his talented all to Edublogs. You will do well, my friend, I have no doubt.</p>\n<p>As part of his last hurrah on The Age, James wrote <a href=\"http://blogs.theage.com.au/media/archives/2007/06/comment_is_twee.html\" title=\"The Age - Comment is Twee\">Comment is Twee</a>, a scathing and cynical, but honest, look at the issues of blog comments.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Honestly, I&#8217;ve had enough.</p>\n<p>Enough of the flaming, the trolling, the moderation, the spam, the &#8216;who&#8217;s-got-more&#8217; syndrome, the inanity and the sheer stupidity behind allowing them on sites like theage.com.au.</p>\n<p>They devalue our content, insult much of our readership, piss off our advertisers, waste massive amounts of our time and place us at an enormous legal risk.</p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also perhaps the least web-savvy thing we, as a large media organisation, should be doing. They&#8217;re yesterday&#8217;s online communication forums, they&#8217;re twee.</p>\n<p>This, needs revisiting. Let&#8217;s get rid of them now.</p></blockquote>\n<p>In the end, he sums up what I say almost every day, to my students, clients, groups, and to you: <em>Make your comments count</em>.</p>\n<p>Good luck, James. We&#8217;ll be cheering for you!</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=james+farmer\" rel=\"tag\">james farmer</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=edublogs\" rel=\"tag\">edublogs</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=edublogs.org\" rel=\"tag\">edublogs.org</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpressmu\" rel=\"tag\">wordpressmu</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=educational+blogs\" rel=\"tag\">educational blogs</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=educational+blogging\" rel=\"tag\">educational blogging</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=free+blogs+for+teachers\" rel=\"tag\">free blogs for teachers</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=free+blogs+for+students\" rel=\"tag\">free blogs for students</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=education\" rel=\"tag\">education</a> <br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:54:57 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:17:\"Lorelle VanFossen\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:6219:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress News\"><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\" alt=\"WordPress News\" align=\"right\" /></a>It is with great joy that I announce that <a href=\"http://incsub.org/blog/2007/and-the-big-news-is\" title=\"And the big news isâ€¦\">James Farmer</a> of legendary <a href=\"http://www.edublogs.org\" title=\"Edublogs\" rel=\"tag\">Edublogs</a> and all its associated free blog services, is leaving his work with <a href=\"http://theage.com.au/\" title=\"The Age\">The Age</a> and going full-time to Edublogs.org.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Today I handed in my notice at The Age and come July 1st Iâ€™ll be working 100% for myself, the majority of the time on Edublogs and the rest doing consultancy, speaking, design &amp; development for education, media and community projects.</p>\n<p>Iâ€™ve always wanted to work for myself, and Edublogs is allowing me to do that. There are currently over 76,000 blogs on the sites and over 1100 new ones every week (well, each week or for the last three weeks at least), add to that the initial success of Edublogs Premium and some extensions Iâ€™ve got for that coming along with a couple of other ideas, and Iâ€™m aiming to turn it into a fully sustainable business within the next six months.</p></blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/edublogs.png\" alt=\"Edublogs logo\" align=\"left\" />I&#8217;ve admired James for a long time. He was so impressed with <a href=\"http://mu.wordpress.org/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"WordPressMU\">WordPressMU</a>, the WordPress multi-user version which <a href=\"http://www.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"WordPress.com\">WordPress.com</a> is based upon, that he was the first to put WordPressMU into action with Edublogs.org, bringing free blogs to teachers and educators and creating a community with a common theme: <em>education</em>.</p>\n<p>According to James, it is now the largest educational blogging site on the web. I say it&#8217;s the largest <em>educational community</em> on the web today. That&#8217;s quite an achievement in two years.</p>\n<p>I have written about <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/04/edublogsorg-providing-free-blogs-to-educators-and-students/\" title=\"Edublogs - Providing Free Blogs to Educators and Students\">Edublogs and James Farmer</a> <a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/\" title=\"The Future of Education is in the Blogs\">many times</a> over the past two years and I&#8217;m totally thrilled he is making this huge leap of faith and giving his talented all to Edublogs. You will do well, my friend, I have no doubt.</p>\n<p>As part of his last hurrah on The Age, James wrote <a href=\"http://blogs.theage.com.au/media/archives/2007/06/comment_is_twee.html\" title=\"The Age - Comment is Twee\">Comment is Twee</a>, a scathing and cynical, but honest, look at the issues of blog comments.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Honestly, I&#8217;ve had enough.</p>\n<p>Enough of the flaming, the trolling, the moderation, the spam, the &#8216;who&#8217;s-got-more&#8217; syndrome, the inanity and the sheer stupidity behind allowing them on sites like theage.com.au.</p>\n<p>They devalue our content, insult much of our readership, piss off our advertisers, waste massive amounts of our time and place us at an enormous legal risk.</p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also perhaps the least web-savvy thing we, as a large media organisation, should be doing. They&#8217;re yesterday&#8217;s online communication forums, they&#8217;re twee.</p>\n<p>This, needs revisiting. Let&#8217;s get rid of them now.</p></blockquote>\n<p>In the end, he sums up what I say almost every day, to my students, clients, groups, and to you: <em>Make your comments count</em>.</p>\n<p>Good luck, James. We&#8217;ll be cheering for you!</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=james+farmer\" rel=\"tag\">james farmer</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=edublogs\" rel=\"tag\">edublogs</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=edublogs.org\" rel=\"tag\">edublogs.org</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpressmu\" rel=\"tag\">wordpressmu</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=educational+blogs\" rel=\"tag\">educational blogs</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=educational+blogging\" rel=\"tag\">educational blogging</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=free+blogs+for+teachers\" rel=\"tag\">free blogs for teachers</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=free+blogs+for+students\" rel=\"tag\">free blogs for students</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=education\" rel=\"tag\">education</a> <br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:17:\"Matt: Alex Shiels\";s:4:\"guid\";s:44:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/10/alex-shiels/\";s:4:\"link\";s:44:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/10/alex-shiels/\";s:11:\"description\";s:186:\"<p>Alex Shiels, known as zem in Textpattern, <a href=\"http://thresholdstate.com/threshold/4318/a-new-job\">is joining Automattic</a>. He&#8217;s our first troublemaker from Australia.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:32:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:186:\"<p>Alex Shiels, known as zem in Textpattern, <a href=\"http://thresholdstate.com/threshold/4318/a-new-job\">is joining Automattic</a>. He&#8217;s our first troublemaker from Australia.</p>\";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:55:\"Weblog Tools Collection: 50 signs youâ€™re a blogaholic\";s:4:\"guid\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/10/50-signs-you%e2%80%99re-a-blogaholic/\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/10/50-signs-you%e2%80%99re-a-blogaholic/\";s:11:\"description\";s:353:\"<p><a href=\"http://jonathandeamer.com/2007/06/10/50-signs-you-blog-too-much/\">50 signs youâ€™re a blogaholic </a>: I stay away from these normally but Jonathan blames the last few on Weblogtoolscollection, so I had to check them out. <img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /></p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:00:16 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:353:\"<p><a href=\"http://jonathandeamer.com/2007/06/10/50-signs-you-blog-too-much/\">50 signs youâ€™re a blogaholic </a>: I stay away from these normally but Jonathan blames the last few on Weblogtoolscollection, so I had to check them out. <img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /></p>\";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Andy Skelton: Riding to WordCamp\";s:4:\"guid\";s:56:\"http://andy.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/riding-to-wordcamp/\";s:4:\"link\";s:56:\"http://andy.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/riding-to-wordcamp/\";s:11:\"description\";s:417:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://2007.wordcamp.org/\">WordCamp 2007</a> is coming up! Instead of flying to San Francisco, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http://skeltoac.com/2007/06/09/less-whim-more-plan/\">planning a motorcycle trip</a> around the country. I hope to meet other bloggers along the way. Please take a look at the trip plans and let me know if you think we can meet up somewhere along the way.</p>\n</div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:05:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Andy\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:417:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://2007.wordcamp.org/\">WordCamp 2007</a> is coming up! Instead of flying to San Francisco, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http://skeltoac.com/2007/06/09/less-whim-more-plan/\">planning a motorcycle trip</a> around the country. I hope to meet other bloggers along the way. Please take a look at the trip plans and let me know if you think we can meet up somewhere along the way.</p>\n</div>\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Theme Releases for 6/08\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/08/wordpress-theme-releases-for-608/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/08/wordpress-theme-releases-for-608/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3600:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/06/07/pride-wordpress-theme/\">Pride</a> is a three column, hybrid, rounded edge, lighweight, blue and yellow theme for Wordpress that is very Blogger-esque. The theme elements have a comic like quality and looks very polished. Pride is authored by Small Potato and is released under the GPL.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.jauhari.net/themes/prosumer\">Prosumer</a> is a three column, widget ready, white background, somewhat bare theme for Wordpress  by  Jauhari. The &#8220;somewhat bare&#8221;ness of the theme is made up by the nicely placed accent graphics  and the smooth flow of the theme.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.michelfortin.com/clean-copy-right-and-full-wordpress-themes/\">Clean Copy</a> is a widget ready, two column, well spaced out, somewhat light theme for Wordpress with blue and white colors and five random header graphics.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/05/29/silkstream/\">SilkStream</a> is a dark, three column, blue on black theme from Milo. It is  widget ready, has a sideblog , recent comments, related posts and flickr RSS.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/2007/05/31/spiritual-journal-3-column-free-wordpress-theme-release/\">Spiritual Journey</a> is a three column, left and right sidebar, widget ready theme for Wordpress with a journal feel. It also uses FamFamFam icons.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/3588/daleri-selection-10/\">Daleri Selection</a> is a fixed-width (990px) wide theme which can have 2 or 3 columns - or a combination of 2 and 3 columns. It is simple, useful, not very advanced - but hopefully well coded. The theme is also somewhat square.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.copyblogger.com/the-copyblogger-theme-for-wordpress/\">CopyBlogger</a> is a two column, highly visible, expansive theme for Wordpress based on Cutline. It was the original theme for <a href=\"http://www.copyblogger.com/the-copyblogger-theme-for-wordpress/\">CopyBlogger</a> that Chris developed.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/06/01/why-dont-you-theme/\">WhyDontYou</a> is a three column, fluid width, widget ready, dark blue and colorful theme for Wordpress. It requires Dunstan-like error pages and UTW plugins.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.paggu.com/?p=6\">PBlue</a> is a three column widget enabled theme for Wordpress with big fonts and a a flower image towards the right of the top banner. The three columns use different but similar background colors. The theme is based on blue and black colors. (Contains Sposored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.headsetoptions.org/2007/05/16/gathering-3c-free-clean-adsense-ready-wp-theme/\">Gathering 3C</a> is a three column, white and black, fixed width, widget ready, right sidebar theme for Wordpress. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://jquindlen.com/blog/2007/05/31/wordpress-theme-myisland-wordpress-theme/\">MyIsland</a> is a two column, rounded edge theme for Wordpress that is slightly different from the rest of the pack. It has an old school LJ like feel. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://board.themevibes.com/wordpress-themes/83-wordpress-theme-simply-blue.html\">Simply Blue</a> is a two column, smooth, light blue, striped background, somewhat different theme for Wordpress. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://jquindlen.com/blog/2007/06/02/wordpress-theme-fieldscape-wordpress-theme/\">FieldScape</a> is a three column, AdSense ready wordpress theme with the header image of a field. It is dark and has rounded corners. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:00:23 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3600:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/06/07/pride-wordpress-theme/\">Pride</a> is a three column, hybrid, rounded edge, lighweight, blue and yellow theme for Wordpress that is very Blogger-esque. The theme elements have a comic like quality and looks very polished. Pride is authored by Small Potato and is released under the GPL.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.jauhari.net/themes/prosumer\">Prosumer</a> is a three column, widget ready, white background, somewhat bare theme for Wordpress  by  Jauhari. The &#8220;somewhat bare&#8221;ness of the theme is made up by the nicely placed accent graphics  and the smooth flow of the theme.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.michelfortin.com/clean-copy-right-and-full-wordpress-themes/\">Clean Copy</a> is a widget ready, two column, well spaced out, somewhat light theme for Wordpress with blue and white colors and five random header graphics.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://milo.peety-passion.com/2007/05/29/silkstream/\">SilkStream</a> is a dark, three column, blue on black theme from Milo. It is  widget ready, has a sideblog , recent comments, related posts and flickr RSS.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/2007/05/31/spiritual-journal-3-column-free-wordpress-theme-release/\">Spiritual Journey</a> is a three column, left and right sidebar, widget ready theme for Wordpress with a journal feel. It also uses FamFamFam icons.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/3588/daleri-selection-10/\">Daleri Selection</a> is a fixed-width (990px) wide theme which can have 2 or 3 columns - or a combination of 2 and 3 columns. It is simple, useful, not very advanced - but hopefully well coded. The theme is also somewhat square.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.copyblogger.com/the-copyblogger-theme-for-wordpress/\">CopyBlogger</a> is a two column, highly visible, expansive theme for Wordpress based on Cutline. It was the original theme for <a href=\"http://www.copyblogger.com/the-copyblogger-theme-for-wordpress/\">CopyBlogger</a> that Chris developed.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/06/01/why-dont-you-theme/\">WhyDontYou</a> is a three column, fluid width, widget ready, dark blue and colorful theme for Wordpress. It requires Dunstan-like error pages and UTW plugins.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.paggu.com/?p=6\">PBlue</a> is a three column widget enabled theme for Wordpress with big fonts and a a flower image towards the right of the top banner. The three columns use different but similar background colors. The theme is based on blue and black colors. (Contains Sposored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.headsetoptions.org/2007/05/16/gathering-3c-free-clean-adsense-ready-wp-theme/\">Gathering 3C</a> is a three column, white and black, fixed width, widget ready, right sidebar theme for Wordpress. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://jquindlen.com/blog/2007/05/31/wordpress-theme-myisland-wordpress-theme/\">MyIsland</a> is a two column, rounded edge theme for Wordpress that is slightly different from the rest of the pack. It has an old school LJ like feel. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://board.themevibes.com/wordpress-themes/83-wordpress-theme-simply-blue.html\">Simply Blue</a> is a two column, smooth, light blue, striped background, somewhat different theme for Wordpress. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://jquindlen.com/blog/2007/06/02/wordpress-theme-fieldscape-wordpress-theme/\">FieldScape</a> is a three column, AdSense ready wordpress theme with the header image of a field. It is dark and has rounded corners. (Contains Sponsored Links)</p>\";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:23:\"bbPress: bbPress Meetup\";s:4:\"guid\";s:47:\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2007/06/bbpress-meetup/\";s:4:\"link\";s:47:\"http://bbpress.org/blog/2007/06/bbpress-meetup/\";s:11:\"description\";s:658:\"<p>As Matt <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/08/wwdc-bbpress-meetup/\">points out</a>, he and I will be at San Francisco&#8217;s Chaat Cafe for the first (EV4R!) <a href=\"http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/204012/\">bbPress meetup</a> on the evening of Monday, June 11th.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to meet <a href=\"http://bbpulp.org/\">Sam Bauers</a> and <a href=\"http://literalbarrage.org/blog/\">Doug Stewart</a> (who are the catalysts for the meetup) in person and all of the rest of you who can make it.</p>\n<p>w00t!</p>\n<p>Perhaps more excitingly, this blog (and bbPress itself) will see much more frequent updates in the near future.  Good times ahead.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:50:01 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:8:\"mdawaffe\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:658:\"<p>As Matt <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/08/wwdc-bbpress-meetup/\">points out</a>, he and I will be at San Francisco&#8217;s Chaat Cafe for the first (EV4R!) <a href=\"http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/204012/\">bbPress meetup</a> on the evening of Monday, June 11th.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to meet <a href=\"http://bbpulp.org/\">Sam Bauers</a> and <a href=\"http://literalbarrage.org/blog/\">Doug Stewart</a> (who are the catalysts for the meetup) in person and all of the rest of you who can make it.</p>\n<p>w00t!</p>\n<p>Perhaps more excitingly, this blog (and bbPress itself) will see much more frequent updates in the near future.  Good times ahead.</p>\";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:31:\"Matt: Pixelodeon in Los Angeles\";s:4:\"guid\";s:58:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/08/pixelodeon-in-los-angeles/\";s:4:\"link\";s:58:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/08/pixelodeon-in-los-angeles/\";s:11:\"description\";s:443:\"<p>I&#8217;m heading down to Los Angeles for <a href=\"http://pixelodeonfest.com/\">Pixelodeon</a>, a two day online film festival. WordPress will have a small booth with myself, <a href=\"http://mdawaffe.com\">Micheal Adams</a>, and <a href=\"http://glenda.wordpress.com/\">Glenda Bautista</a>, so if you&#8217;re a WP user loop by and say hi. We&#8217;ll have stickers and such. I&#8217;m told I&#8217;ll be speaking at 4 PM tomorrow, as well.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:46:28 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:443:\"<p>I&#8217;m heading down to Los Angeles for <a href=\"http://pixelodeonfest.com/\">Pixelodeon</a>, a two day online film festival. WordPress will have a small booth with myself, <a href=\"http://mdawaffe.com\">Micheal Adams</a>, and <a href=\"http://glenda.wordpress.com/\">Glenda Bautista</a>, so if you&#8217;re a WP user loop by and say hi. We&#8217;ll have stickers and such. I&#8217;m told I&#8217;ll be speaking at 4 PM tomorrow, as well.</p>\";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"Matt: WWDC bbPress Meetup\";s:4:\"guid\";s:52:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/08/wwdc-bbpress-meetup/\";s:4:\"link\";s:52:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/08/wwdc-bbpress-meetup/\";s:11:\"description\";s:274:\"<p>Come meet myself, <a href=\"http://bbpress.org\">bbPress</a> and WP hacker Michael Adams, Doug Stewart, Sam Bauers, at the <a href=\"http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/204012/\">WWDC bbPress meetup on Monday</a>. I can&#8217;t RSVP yet because I&#8217;m locked out of Yahoo.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:45:49 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:274:\"<p>Come meet myself, <a href=\"http://bbpress.org\">bbPress</a> and WP hacker Michael Adams, Doug Stewart, Sam Bauers, at the <a href=\"http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/204012/\">WWDC bbPress meetup on Monday</a>. I can&#8217;t RSVP yet because I&#8217;m locked out of Yahoo.</p>\";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:46:\"Lorelle on WP: Two Exciting WordPress Contests\";s:4:\"guid\";s:72:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/two-exciting-wordpress-contests/\";s:4:\"link\";s:72:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/two-exciting-wordpress-contests/\";s:11:\"description\";s:6182:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress News\"><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\" alt=\"WordPress News\" align=\"right\" /></a>We haven&#8217;t had an exciting WordPress contest in a while and now there are two. One hosted by <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/\" title=\"Weblog Tools Collection\">Weblog Tools Collection</a> for WordPress Plugins and the other for WordPress Themes designed with the <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/\" title=\"Sandbox\">Sandbox WordPress Theme</a>.</p>\n<h3>WordPress Plugins Competition</h3>\n<p><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/24/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-20/\" title=\"Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2.0\">Weblog Tools Collection announced the &#8220;WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0&#8243;</a>. It <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/01/wordpress-plugin-competition-started/\" title=\"Wordpress Plugin Competition Started\">began June 1</a> and runs to July 31.</p>\n<p>Contestants are challenged to produce new WordPress Plugins and submit them through the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\" title=\"Plugin Competition Blog\">Plugin Competition Blog</a>. For those following the exciting new Plugins, the blog will feature them as they are released.</p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/\" title=\"Contact Form\">Contact Form</a> for questions and sponsorships (some <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/\" title=\"Plugin Competition Prizes\">great prizes</a> will be awarded), and a list of the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/24/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-20/\" title=\"Preliminary Rules\">Preliminary Rules</a> for entering the competition.</p>\n<p>You may think that <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/a-month-of-wordpress-plugins/\" title=\"A Month of WordPress Plugins from Lorelle on WordPress\">every WordPress Plugin</a> that can be developed has been developed. That&#8217;s not true. I featured some great ideas in <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/wanted-wordpress-plugins-for-me/\" title=\"WordPress Plugins for Me\">&#8220;Wanted: WordPress Plugins for Me&#8221;</a> and I know there are still plenty of good ideas out there that would make great Plugins.</p>\n<p>You also don&#8217;t have to reinvent the wheel. There are a number of WordPress Plugins which are no longer being supported which can be recreated even better with new code and powerful functions. Why not rebuilt the wheel instead of reinventing it.</p>\n<h3>Sandbox WordPress Theme Competition</h2>\n<p><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/31/announcing-the-sandbox-designs-competition/\" title=\"The Sandbox Designs Competition Announced\">The Sandbox Designs Competition</a> was announced last week, asking WordPress Theme designers to challenge themselves to designing a new Theme with the <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/\" title=\"Sandbox\">Sandbox WordPress Theme</a>.</p>\n<p>The Sandbox Theme is the latest in powerful WordPress Themes. It is WordPress Widget enabled and features a &#8220;blank template&#8221; with a LOT of customization features and excellent CSS structuring. </p>\n<p>I use it on <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress\">here on my WordPress.com blog</a>. </p>\n<p>Like many such competitions, the key is to use the architecture in place and focus only on the CSS stylesheet for your design elements. I love contests like this. The creativity explodes!</p>\n<p>There is a lot of information on <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/details/how-to-submit/\" title=\"How to submit\">how to submit</a> your entry, the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/details/official-rules/\" title=\"Official Rules\">Official Rules</a>, a list of <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/results/participants/\" title=\"list of sandbox Designs Competition Participants\">competition participants</a> page, and more on the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\" title=\"The Sandbox Designs Competition\">The Sandbox Designs Competition</a> site. </p>\n<p>I expect this summer to be filled with WordPress creativity. Don&#8217;t you?</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+themes\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress themes</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+plugins\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress plugins</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+contest\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress contest</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+competiton\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress competiton</a> </p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a><br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:59:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:17:\"Lorelle VanFossen\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:6182:\"<div class=\"snap_preview\"><p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/\" title=\"WordPress News\"><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\" alt=\"WordPress News\" align=\"right\" /></a>We haven&#8217;t had an exciting WordPress contest in a while and now there are two. One hosted by <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/\" title=\"Weblog Tools Collection\">Weblog Tools Collection</a> for WordPress Plugins and the other for WordPress Themes designed with the <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/\" title=\"Sandbox\">Sandbox WordPress Theme</a>.</p>\n<h3>WordPress Plugins Competition</h3>\n<p><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/24/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-20/\" title=\"Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2.0\">Weblog Tools Collection announced the &#8220;WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0&#8243;</a>. It <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/01/wordpress-plugin-competition-started/\" title=\"Wordpress Plugin Competition Started\">began June 1</a> and runs to July 31.</p>\n<p>Contestants are challenged to produce new WordPress Plugins and submit them through the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\" title=\"Plugin Competition Blog\">Plugin Competition Blog</a>. For those following the exciting new Plugins, the blog will feature them as they are released.</p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/\" title=\"Contact Form\">Contact Form</a> for questions and sponsorships (some <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/plugin-competition-prizes/\" title=\"Plugin Competition Prizes\">great prizes</a> will be awarded), and a list of the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/24/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-20/\" title=\"Preliminary Rules\">Preliminary Rules</a> for entering the competition.</p>\n<p>You may think that <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/a-month-of-wordpress-plugins/\" title=\"A Month of WordPress Plugins from Lorelle on WordPress\">every WordPress Plugin</a> that can be developed has been developed. That&#8217;s not true. I featured some great ideas in <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/wanted-wordpress-plugins-for-me/\" title=\"WordPress Plugins for Me\">&#8220;Wanted: WordPress Plugins for Me&#8221;</a> and I know there are still plenty of good ideas out there that would make great Plugins.</p>\n<p>You also don&#8217;t have to reinvent the wheel. There are a number of WordPress Plugins which are no longer being supported which can be recreated even better with new code and powerful functions. Why not rebuilt the wheel instead of reinventing it.</p>\n<h3>Sandbox WordPress Theme Competition</h2>\n<p><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/31/announcing-the-sandbox-designs-competition/\" title=\"The Sandbox Designs Competition Announced\">The Sandbox Designs Competition</a> was announced last week, asking WordPress Theme designers to challenge themselves to designing a new Theme with the <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/\" title=\"Sandbox\">Sandbox WordPress Theme</a>.</p>\n<p>The Sandbox Theme is the latest in powerful WordPress Themes. It is WordPress Widget enabled and features a &#8220;blank template&#8221; with a LOT of customization features and excellent CSS structuring. </p>\n<p>I use it on <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress\">here on my WordPress.com blog</a>. </p>\n<p>Like many such competitions, the key is to use the architecture in place and focus only on the CSS stylesheet for your design elements. I love contests like this. The creativity explodes!</p>\n<p>There is a lot of information on <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/details/how-to-submit/\" title=\"How to submit\">how to submit</a> your entry, the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/details/official-rules/\" title=\"Official Rules\">Official Rules</a>, a list of <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/results/participants/\" title=\"list of sandbox Designs Competition Participants\">competition participants</a> page, and more on the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\" title=\"The Sandbox Designs Competition\">The Sandbox Designs Competition</a> site. </p>\n<p>I expect this summer to be filled with WordPress creativity. Don&#8217;t you?</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/sig.gif\" alt=\"\" /><img src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/9rules.gif\" alt=\"Member of the 9Rules Blogging Network\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><b>Site Search Tags:</b> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+themes\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress themes</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+plugins\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress plugins</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+contest\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress contest</a>, <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/index.php?s=wordpress+competiton\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress competiton</a> </p>\n<p><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/rss.png\" alt=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\" /></a> <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/feed/\" title=\"Feed on Lorelle on WordPress\">Subscribe</a>  <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LorelleOnWordpress\" title=\"Feedburner Lorelle on WordPress Feed\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feedburnericon.gif\" alt=\"Feedburner icon\" />Via Feedburner</a>  <a href=\"http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=182399\" title=\"Lorelle on WordPress - full site feed email subscription\"><img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/email.gif\" alt=\"\" />Subscribe by Email</a><br /><a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/about/\" title=\"Copyright Protected by Brent and Lorelle VanFossen\">Copyright Lorelle VanFossen</a>, member of the <a href=\"http://9rules.com/\" title=\"Member of 9Rules Blogging Network\">9Rules Network</a>, and author of <a href=\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/\" title=\"Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen\"><em>Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won\'t Tell You About Blogging</em></a>.</font></p>\n</div>\";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Weblog Tools Collection: How important is search?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:77:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/08/how-important-is-search/\";s:4:\"link\";s:77:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/08/how-important-is-search/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3109:\"<p>Very important! If you have noticed, I wrote up a small heat map to be displayed in the sidebar and on the main search page of this blog. The search and data collection process is a slightly intelligent and tries to match up search terms and group them by usage. It then chooses all searches performed within the past 24 hours and displays them in a heatmap sorted by propensity of the search phrase. The 24 hour time period keeps the search phases in the heatmap turned over regularly and retains the interest of returning visitors.</p>\n<p>Why did I do this? I put it together because I believe that there is a lot of power (and thus clicks, pageviews, eyeballs) in searches. I had noticed the <a href=\"http://techcrunch-swicki.eurekster.com/\">Eurekster Swiki</a> on TechCrunch and was impressed by the power of the system. I tried to emulate it on weblogtoolscollection.com with little success. To be fair, we have nowhere near the numbers of <a href=\"http://techcrunch.com\">TechCrunch</a> (TechCrunch has approximately fifteen to twenty times the traffic of this blog) and the Eurekster sWiki for this blog did not catch on. I still wanted to know what people were searching for so I knew what my readers are looking to find. So to make a long story short, I added some code to my customized search engine to capture the search data and then spit it out in a heat map format that is easy visualize. I like the results that came out of this little test and apparently so do you.</p>\n<p>Here are some statistics on running the heatmap for a 48 hour period following the introduction. Now bear in mind that I have no data on searches performed from <em>before</em> I put in the heat maps except for daily traffic data to the search page:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately 2000 searches were performed</li>\n<li>This resulted in 3500 pageviews</li>\n<li>There were a few less than 2400 exits from these 3500 pages (this is an approximation from Google Analytics by using bounce rates, I have no empirical proof of this)</li>\n<li>The search page was often in the top 20 requested pages on this blog during those 24 hours</li>\n<li>The search pages&#8217; traffic is a little more than half the organic referrals from search engines to the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/wordpress-templates-wordpress-skins-wordpress-themes/\">Wordpress Templates</a> category of this blog.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I would like to release this code as a plugin but I really cannot do so in its current form. It is custom hacked for this blog and makes use of its peculiar data structures. I am trying to come up with a search heat map plugin that works in a default Wordpress install but that will take a little time to complete. In conclusion, there is a lot of power in searches. A useful search tool coupled with a way to organize and understand search patterns can really add to the user experience and can really affect traffic numbers. So, what are you waiting for? Click on one of the popular seach terms on the right and check it out!</p>\n<p>PS: What do you think? Also, what do you think I should call it?</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:31:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3109:\"<p>Very important! If you have noticed, I wrote up a small heat map to be displayed in the sidebar and on the main search page of this blog. The search and data collection process is a slightly intelligent and tries to match up search terms and group them by usage. It then chooses all searches performed within the past 24 hours and displays them in a heatmap sorted by propensity of the search phrase. The 24 hour time period keeps the search phases in the heatmap turned over regularly and retains the interest of returning visitors.</p>\n<p>Why did I do this? I put it together because I believe that there is a lot of power (and thus clicks, pageviews, eyeballs) in searches. I had noticed the <a href=\"http://techcrunch-swicki.eurekster.com/\">Eurekster Swiki</a> on TechCrunch and was impressed by the power of the system. I tried to emulate it on weblogtoolscollection.com with little success. To be fair, we have nowhere near the numbers of <a href=\"http://techcrunch.com\">TechCrunch</a> (TechCrunch has approximately fifteen to twenty times the traffic of this blog) and the Eurekster sWiki for this blog did not catch on. I still wanted to know what people were searching for so I knew what my readers are looking to find. So to make a long story short, I added some code to my customized search engine to capture the search data and then spit it out in a heat map format that is easy visualize. I like the results that came out of this little test and apparently so do you.</p>\n<p>Here are some statistics on running the heatmap for a 48 hour period following the introduction. Now bear in mind that I have no data on searches performed from <em>before</em> I put in the heat maps except for daily traffic data to the search page:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately 2000 searches were performed</li>\n<li>This resulted in 3500 pageviews</li>\n<li>There were a few less than 2400 exits from these 3500 pages (this is an approximation from Google Analytics by using bounce rates, I have no empirical proof of this)</li>\n<li>The search page was often in the top 20 requested pages on this blog during those 24 hours</li>\n<li>The search pages&#8217; traffic is a little more than half the organic referrals from search engines to the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/category/wordpress-templates-wordpress-skins-wordpress-themes/\">Wordpress Templates</a> category of this blog.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I would like to release this code as a plugin but I really cannot do so in its current form. It is custom hacked for this blog and makes use of its peculiar data structures. I am trying to come up with a search heat map plugin that works in a default Wordpress install but that will take a little time to complete. In conclusion, there is a lot of power in searches. A useful search tool coupled with a way to organize and understand search patterns can really add to the user experience and can really affect traffic numbers. So, what are you waiting for? Click on one of the popular seach terms on the right and check it out!</p>\n<p>PS: What do you think? Also, what do you think I should call it?</p>\";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Plugin Releases for 6/08\";s:4:\"guid\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/08/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-628/\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/08/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-628/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1745:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archive/2007/05/31/wpcssstreamliner_css_optimizat\">WP CSS-Streamliner</a>: Streamline and optimize and compress your CSS file with this Wordpress plugin to improve your blog&#8217;s performance.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.websitehostingiq.net/blogroll-page-plugin/\">Blogroll Page Plugin</a>: Publish your blogroll on a page rather than your sidebar with this plugin.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.turkhitbox.com/wordpress-seo/dofollow-trackbacks-plugin.html\">Do Follow Trackback</a>: Use this plugin to show linky love to other bloggers that actually link to you when they send you a trackback. Much like the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/06/01/wp-plugin-trackback-validator/\">trackback validator</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/\">Excerpt Editor Update</a>: Tweak and pamper your excerpts to your hearts&#8217; content with this editor. This update includes bufixes, better security and classier code. Get it, classier &#8230;? never mind!</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/\">WP-Simpleviewer</a>: Incorporate SimpleViewer Flash galleries into Wordpress. For those that are not aware of <a href=\"http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/\">SimpleViewer</a>, it is a free and ersatile Flash based image display application. It helps build <a href=\"http://www.airtightinteractive.com/photos/\">beautiful and smooth galleries</a>. This plugin is also an entrant into the Wordpress Theme Competition 2.0.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://johannesries.de/webwork/wp-filemanager/\">WP-Filemanager</a>: Highly versatile file management plugin for Wordpress that will allow you to change, delete, upload and organize files on your blog.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:45:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1745:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archive/2007/05/31/wpcssstreamliner_css_optimizat\">WP CSS-Streamliner</a>: Streamline and optimize and compress your CSS file with this Wordpress plugin to improve your blog&#8217;s performance.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.websitehostingiq.net/blogroll-page-plugin/\">Blogroll Page Plugin</a>: Publish your blogroll on a page rather than your sidebar with this plugin.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.turkhitbox.com/wordpress-seo/dofollow-trackbacks-plugin.html\">Do Follow Trackback</a>: Use this plugin to show linky love to other bloggers that actually link to you when they send you a trackback. Much like the <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/06/01/wp-plugin-trackback-validator/\">trackback validator</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/\">Excerpt Editor Update</a>: Tweak and pamper your excerpts to your hearts&#8217; content with this editor. This update includes bufixes, better security and classier code. Get it, classier &#8230;? never mind!</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://wp-simpleviewer.fuggi82.de/\">WP-Simpleviewer</a>: Incorporate SimpleViewer Flash galleries into Wordpress. For those that are not aware of <a href=\"http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/\">SimpleViewer</a>, it is a free and ersatile Flash based image display application. It helps build <a href=\"http://www.airtightinteractive.com/photos/\">beautiful and smooth galleries</a>. This plugin is also an entrant into the Wordpress Theme Competition 2.0.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://johannesries.de/webwork/wp-filemanager/\">WP-Filemanager</a>: Highly versatile file management plugin for Wordpress that will allow you to change, delete, upload and organize files on your blog.</p>\";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:77:\"WordPress Podcast: Episode 25: WordPress.com goes over a million and WordCamp\";s:4:\"guid\";s:92:\"http://wp-community.org/2007/06/07/episode-25-wordpresscom-goes-over-a-million-and-wordcamp/\";s:4:\"link\";s:92:\"http://wp-community.org/2007/06/07/episode-25-wordpresscom-goes-over-a-million-and-wordcamp/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4371:\"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"4\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">03:38</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong>WordPress.com goes over 1 million blogs</strong><br />\n<a href=\"http://wordpress.com/\" class=\"extlink\"> WordPress.com</a> recently saw the creation of their millionth blog. That&#8217;s exceptional growth by anyone&#8217;s standard, and congratulations go out to everyone at <a href=\"http://automattic.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Automattic</a> for working so hard to make Wordpress.com the success that it is.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">06:22</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong>Movable Type 4 (re)embraces Open Source</strong><br />\n<a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/\" class=\"extlink\"> SixApart</a> recently announced that <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.com/mt4/\" class=\"extlink\">Movable Type 4</a> will be <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source\" class=\"extlink\">Open Source Software</a> and released under <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl\" class=\"extlink\">GPL</a>, yet they&#8217;ll charge for it?! Aaron and I agree that this is <a href=\"http://technosailor.com/five-things-movabletype-learned-from-bilbo-baggins/\" class=\"extlink\">too little, too late</a> for the WordPress predecessor.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">12:32</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong>Unless you&#8217;re running WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.10, your blog is vulnerable!</strong><br />\nAaron recently reacted to <a href=\"http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/articles/article-230507/\" class=\"extlink\">an unscientific survey</a> with <a href=\"http://technosailor.com/98-of-wordpress-blogs-vulnerable/\" class=\"extlink\">his own unscientific survey</a>, finding that most blogs are behind on updating their installations of WordPress to <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\" class=\"extlink\">the most recent version</a>, making their blogs extremely vulnerable to attack or hijacking.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">18:14</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong><a href=\"http://2007.wordcamp.org/\" class=\"extlink\">WordCamp San Francisco 2007</a> is nearing and appears to lack organization</strong><br />\n<a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\" class=\"extlink\"> Matt Mullenweg</a> may have wanted WordCamps organized all over the world, but Aaron and I would settle for the one actually being organized. A little more than a month away, and there&#8217;s no R.S.V.P. list or agenda. As much as we appreciate Automattic organizing the conference, we&#8217;re voicing the concerns of a lot of people when we voice our frustrations over the seeming lack of organization and advance information.We also talked about our plans to hold a session on podcasting and record an episode there.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">27:19</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Weblog Tools Collection</a> holds <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\" class=\"extlink\">2nd Annual Plug-In Competition</a> and <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\" class=\"extlink\">Sandbox Design Competition</a></strong><br />\nOne of our favorite blogging tools sources, Weblog Tools Collection, has begun running two competitions nearly concurrently. The 2nd annual competition for WordPress plug-ins ends July 31st and features some nifty prizes, and the Sandbox Design Competition makes its first appearance, ends 12:00 AM (GMT), Sunday, July 29, 2007 and offers some nice chucks o&#8217;change.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">32:30</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Feedback, comments and questions:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.jeraldsheets.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Jerald Sheets</a> corrects us on the use of the phrase &#8220;ripped off&#8221; when it comes to the GPL.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://ericulous.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Eric Genkisan</a> corrects us on his <a href=\"http://ericulous.com/2007/05/16/wp-plugin-genki-youtube-comments/\" class=\"extlink\">Genki YouTube Comments plug-in</a>, saying that it works even on other people&#8217;s video, which doesn&#8217;t make us very happy.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.remotesensingtools.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Daniel</a> got to thinking about Aaron&#8217;s idea for an RSS-only blog (which was the idea anyway) and shared his thoughts on the subject. (We didn&#8217;t understand it all, but it was all very intriguing. Was he suggesting the end of branding?)</li>\n</ul>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</table>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:37:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:17:\"Charles Stricklin\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4371:\"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"4\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">03:38</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong>WordPress.com goes over 1 million blogs</strong><br />\n<a href=\"http://wordpress.com/\" class=\"extlink\"> WordPress.com</a> recently saw the creation of their millionth blog. That&#8217;s exceptional growth by anyone&#8217;s standard, and congratulations go out to everyone at <a href=\"http://automattic.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Automattic</a> for working so hard to make Wordpress.com the success that it is.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">06:22</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong>Movable Type 4 (re)embraces Open Source</strong><br />\n<a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/\" class=\"extlink\"> SixApart</a> recently announced that <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.com/mt4/\" class=\"extlink\">Movable Type 4</a> will be <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source\" class=\"extlink\">Open Source Software</a> and released under <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl\" class=\"extlink\">GPL</a>, yet they&#8217;ll charge for it?! Aaron and I agree that this is <a href=\"http://technosailor.com/five-things-movabletype-learned-from-bilbo-baggins/\" class=\"extlink\">too little, too late</a> for the WordPress predecessor.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">12:32</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong>Unless you&#8217;re running WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.10, your blog is vulnerable!</strong><br />\nAaron recently reacted to <a href=\"http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/articles/article-230507/\" class=\"extlink\">an unscientific survey</a> with <a href=\"http://technosailor.com/98-of-wordpress-blogs-vulnerable/\" class=\"extlink\">his own unscientific survey</a>, finding that most blogs are behind on updating their installations of WordPress to <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\" class=\"extlink\">the most recent version</a>, making their blogs extremely vulnerable to attack or hijacking.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">18:14</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong><a href=\"http://2007.wordcamp.org/\" class=\"extlink\">WordCamp San Francisco 2007</a> is nearing and appears to lack organization</strong><br />\n<a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\" class=\"extlink\"> Matt Mullenweg</a> may have wanted WordCamps organized all over the world, but Aaron and I would settle for the one actually being organized. A little more than a month away, and there&#8217;s no R.S.V.P. list or agenda. As much as we appreciate Automattic organizing the conference, we&#8217;re voicing the concerns of a lot of people when we voice our frustrations over the seeming lack of organization and advance information.We also talked about our plans to hold a session on podcasting and record an episode there.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">27:19</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">News: <strong><a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Weblog Tools Collection</a> holds <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/\" class=\"extlink\">2nd Annual Plug-In Competition</a> and <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\" class=\"extlink\">Sandbox Design Competition</a></strong><br />\nOne of our favorite blogging tools sources, Weblog Tools Collection, has begun running two competitions nearly concurrently. The 2nd annual competition for WordPress plug-ins ends July 31st and features some nifty prizes, and the Sandbox Design Competition makes its first appearance, ends 12:00 AM (GMT), Sunday, July 29, 2007 and offers some nice chucks o&#8217;change.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">32:30</td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Feedback, comments and questions:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.jeraldsheets.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Jerald Sheets</a> corrects us on the use of the phrase &#8220;ripped off&#8221; when it comes to the GPL.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://ericulous.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Eric Genkisan</a> corrects us on his <a href=\"http://ericulous.com/2007/05/16/wp-plugin-genki-youtube-comments/\" class=\"extlink\">Genki YouTube Comments plug-in</a>, saying that it works even on other people&#8217;s video, which doesn&#8217;t make us very happy.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.remotesensingtools.com/\" class=\"extlink\">Daniel</a> got to thinking about Aaron&#8217;s idea for an RSS-only blog (which was the idea anyway) and shared his thoughts on the subject. (We didn&#8217;t understand it all, but it was all very intriguing. Was he suggesting the end of branding?)</li>\n</ul>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</table>\";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"Weblog Tools Collection: GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/07/gamerz-wordpress-plugins-updated/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/07/gamerz-wordpress-plugins-updated/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1408:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/2007/06/01/lesters-chan-wordpress-plugins-june-2007-update/\">GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated</a>: Lester (GaMerZ) has updated most of his plugins to work with Wordpress 2.2 Some of the updates are bugfixes while others have new and requested features.</p>\n<blockquote><p> WP-Polls now features multiple options, future poll scheduling, poll data log mining and some parts of the admin backend are now AJAXed. WP-PageNavi has been revamp in terms of looks and options as you can see at the bottom of this page, it features digg style design navigation with the use of style sheet and now almost all the options can be set in â€œWP-Admin -&gt; Options -&gt; PageNaviâ€. There are some new features in WP-Ban, like banned by referrers url, banned by specific IP range, exclude a specific IP from being banned and the ability to preview banned message. He has also added a scheduler to WP-DBManager, the ability to optimize, backup, backup and email the database dump file after X number of days/weeks/months. There is also a new Repair Database feature.</p></blockquote>\n<p>We use Lester&#8217;s WP-Postratings on this blog and judging from user reviews, the plugin works remarkably well. Lester has been involved with Wordpress plugin development for quite a while and he writes good stuff. Remember to send a quick Thank You to him if you use his plugins.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:45:16 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1408:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/2007/06/01/lesters-chan-wordpress-plugins-june-2007-update/\">GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated</a>: Lester (GaMerZ) has updated most of his plugins to work with Wordpress 2.2 Some of the updates are bugfixes while others have new and requested features.</p>\n<blockquote><p> WP-Polls now features multiple options, future poll scheduling, poll data log mining and some parts of the admin backend are now AJAXed. WP-PageNavi has been revamp in terms of looks and options as you can see at the bottom of this page, it features digg style design navigation with the use of style sheet and now almost all the options can be set in â€œWP-Admin -&gt; Options -&gt; PageNaviâ€. There are some new features in WP-Ban, like banned by referrers url, banned by specific IP range, exclude a specific IP from being banned and the ability to preview banned message. He has also added a scheduler to WP-DBManager, the ability to optimize, backup, backup and email the database dump file after X number of days/weeks/months. There is also a new Repair Database feature.</p></blockquote>\n<p>We use Lester&#8217;s WP-Postratings on this blog and judging from user reviews, the plugin works remarkably well. Lester has been involved with Wordpress plugin development for quite a while and he writes good stuff. Remember to send a quick Thank You to him if you use his plugins.</p>\";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"Weblog Tools Collection: How strong is your password?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:81:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/07/how-strong-is-your-password/\";s:4:\"link\";s:81:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/07/how-strong-is-your-password/\";s:11:\"description\";s:722:\"<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/06/07/how-strong-is-your-password/\">How strong is your password?</a> Even though this post from Donncha on the Wordpress.com blog might have been written for the benefit of Wordpress.com users, I believe that this is <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/2006/06/07/whoops-2/\">highly relevant for ALL bloggers</a>. I could not find a Wordpress plugin for the <a href=\"http://phiras.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/password-strength-meter-a-jquery-plugin/\">password strength meter</a> without JQuery but that would be a very useful tool to have. Remember, the weakest link in our security chain is the common stuff we tend to overlook. Please make sure your password is not easily guessable.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:30:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:722:\"<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/06/07/how-strong-is-your-password/\">How strong is your password?</a> Even though this post from Donncha on the Wordpress.com blog might have been written for the benefit of Wordpress.com users, I believe that this is <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/2006/06/07/whoops-2/\">highly relevant for ALL bloggers</a>. I could not find a Wordpress plugin for the <a href=\"http://phiras.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/password-strength-meter-a-jquery-plugin/\">password strength meter</a> without JQuery but that would be a very useful tool to have. Remember, the weakest link in our security chain is the common stuff we tend to overlook. Please make sure your password is not easily guessable.</p>\";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:21:\"Matt: WP Contributors\";s:4:\"guid\";s:48:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/07/wp-contributors/\";s:4:\"link\";s:48:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/07/wp-contributors/\";s:11:\"description\";s:232:\"<p><a href=\"http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-22-source-code-worth-1-million/\">Lloyd has a great post about all the people who contributed to WordPress 2.2</a>, thank you! Open source is about so much more than code and licenses.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:54:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:232:\"<p><a href=\"http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-22-source-code-worth-1-million/\">Lloyd has a great post about all the people who contributed to WordPress 2.2</a>, thank you! Open source is about so much more than code and licenses.</p>\";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:15:\"Matt: CNN on WP\";s:4:\"guid\";s:42:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/07/cnn-on-wp/\";s:4:\"link\";s:42:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/07/cnn-on-wp/\";s:11:\"description\";s:708:\"<p>Many of you have written in that <a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/\">CNN&#8217;s new Political Ticker</a> blog is on WordPress. We know! They&#8217;re part of our <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/\">VIP program</a> which allowed them to launch quickly and serve <strong>millions of pageviews</strong> with no problems. The team there has launched dozens of blogs on the system, including ones for Fortune.com and CNN Money and is a real pleasure to work with. To the extent blogs are going to have an impact on the 2008 election they need to be able to reach millions of people in a short period of time without problems, I hope that WordPress.com provides that platform for folks.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:10:36 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:708:\"<p>Many of you have written in that <a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/\">CNN&#8217;s new Political Ticker</a> blog is on WordPress. We know! They&#8217;re part of our <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/\">VIP program</a> which allowed them to launch quickly and serve <strong>millions of pageviews</strong> with no problems. The team there has launched dozens of blogs on the system, including ones for Fortune.com and CNN Money and is a real pleasure to work with. To the extent blogs are going to have an impact on the 2008 election they need to be able to reach millions of people in a short period of time without problems, I hope that WordPress.com provides that platform for folks.</p>\";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:11:\"Matt: MT OS\";s:4:\"guid\";s:38:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/07/mt-os/\";s:4:\"link\";s:38:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/06/07/mt-os/\";s:11:\"description\";s:630:\"<p>I am settled back from Greece and quite a bit happened while I was unplugged. I want to belatedly congratulate the <a href=\"http://movabletype.com/\">Movable Type</a> team for <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.com/mt4/mt4_answers.html\">committing</a> toÂ  <a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html\">GPL</a> for MT4, and wish them best of luck in rebuilding their developer community. The news has been <a href=\"http://s.technorati.com/movable%20type%20open%20source\">written about</a> nearly everywhere, rightly so; <a href=\"http://justagirlintheworld.com/2007/06/06/sixapart-creates-a-buzz/\">Lisa has a blog round-up</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:23:45 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:630:\"<p>I am settled back from Greece and quite a bit happened while I was unplugged. I want to belatedly congratulate the <a href=\"http://movabletype.com/\">Movable Type</a> team for <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.com/mt4/mt4_answers.html\">committing</a> toÂ  <a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html\">GPL</a> for MT4, and wish them best of luck in rebuilding their developer community. The news has been <a href=\"http://s.technorati.com/movable%20type%20open%20source\">written about</a> nearly everywhere, rightly so; <a href=\"http://justagirlintheworld.com/2007/06/06/sixapart-creates-a-buzz/\">Lisa has a blog round-up</a>.</p>\";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:38:\"Ryan Boren: Sandbox Design Competition\";s:4:\"guid\";s:63:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/06/sandbox-design-competition/\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/06/06/sandbox-design-competition/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1031:\"<p>Last week, <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/\">Scott</a> <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/31/announcing-the-sandbox-designs-competition/\">announced</a> the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\">Sandbox Designs Competition</a>.  I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how this competition turns out.  A good-looking style on top of the semantic, <a href=\"http://microformats.org/\">microformaty</a> goodness of <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/\">Sandbox</a> might make for a good theme to bundle with <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a>.  And I&#8217;m sure the <a href=\"http://automattic.com/\">Automattic</a> crew will find some favorites from the competition to include on <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/\">WordPress.com</a>.  Consider <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/results/participants/\">participating in</a> or <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/sponsors/how-to-sponsor/\">sponsoring</a> the competition and help bring some new designs to the WP community while getting some good exposure.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:42:58 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1031:\"<p>Last week, <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/\">Scott</a> <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/05/31/announcing-the-sandbox-designs-competition/\">announced</a> the <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/\">Sandbox Designs Competition</a>.  I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how this competition turns out.  A good-looking style on top of the semantic, <a href=\"http://microformats.org/\">microformaty</a> goodness of <a href=\"http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/\">Sandbox</a> might make for a good theme to bundle with <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a>.  And I&#8217;m sure the <a href=\"http://automattic.com/\">Automattic</a> crew will find some favorites from the competition to include on <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/\">WordPress.com</a>.  Consider <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/results/participants/\">participating in</a> or <a href=\"http://www.sndbx.org/sponsors/how-to-sponsor/\">sponsoring</a> the competition and help bring some new designs to the WP community while getting some good exposure.</p>\";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"Wordlog: MovableType: 3 Years Too Late?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:68:\"http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/06/06/movabletype-3-years-too-late/\";s:4:\"link\";s:68:\"http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/06/06/movabletype-3-years-too-late/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3898:\"<p>Movable Type is going open source. Yup. <a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2007/06/movable-type-4-beta.html\">MovableType 4 Beta has been announced</a> and the plans are to make it a fully GPL-ed, open source product. The announcement says:</p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;we wanted to explain why weâ€™ve made this massive investment in Movable Type and its community. The truth is, Movable Type is how Six Apart got started, and one of those ideas that motivated us from the very beginning is that weâ€™ve <strong>got a mission</strong>.</p></blockquote>\n<p>And then the rest of the post does nothing to explain <em>clearly</em> why they&#8217;ve made this massive investment. The rest of post explains how blogging empowers ordinary people, and that their mission is to get blogging to the masses. It also explains the role of Vox, LiveJournal and TypePad in the Six Apart world. A free version of MT was always available for personal use. So why make it open source? That&#8217;s the answer I was looking for, and did not find.</p>\n<p>I still clearly remember the day Mena announced <a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/about/corner/2004/05/its_about_time.html\">the new pricing structure for MovableType</a>. A day later, I wrote up a post on <a href=\"http://carthik.net/blog/vault/2004/05/14/movabletype-to-wordpress/\">how to move from Movable Type to WordPress</a>. Then, the exodus began - with famous users, like <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org\">Mark Pilgrim</a>, <a href=\"http://molly.com\">Molly</a>, and so many others shifting to WordPress. Those were busy days on the #wordpress IRC channel. The number of opinion-leading bloggers who used MT started declining, and most of the new bloggers who came after chose WordPress. While there is no reliable count of the number of WordPress Vs. Movable Type users, I dare say more folks use WordPress than MT. </p>\n<p>At the time of the announcement of the new pricing structure, the rationale was:</p>\n<blockquote><p>In preventing web hosts from offering Movable Type for a fee, we had to put a pretty strict blanket clause on our licenses to cover all cases when compensation was earned. Buying a commercial license to perform services was a bit backwards, but at the time, it was the only way we felt we could control the situation.</p></blockquote>\n<p>So the new pricing structure intended to let personal users continue to use MT while stifling other commercial entities from &#8220;profiting&#8221; from their product. How has this changed today? Today, not many commercial entities offer MT installations, I suppose. There is no evident mass-interest, and so they probably are no longer a significant threat.</p>\n<p>Some answers can be found at the <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/\">Movable Type open source page</a>. They say the reason for an open source release is as simple as that the users asked for it. They asked for it en-masse just about 3 years ago. So though it sounds like a valid reason, I suspect that is not all there is to it. Whatever the reasons behind the change of mind, I welcome it. WordPress needs competition. I just wish the <a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2007/06/movable-type-4-beta.html\">MT 4 Beta announcement</a> wasn&#8217;t so wishy-washy. Did they make a mistake in announcing their pricing structure earlier? Did they realize that releasing their flagship product as an open source product will revitalize their mind share? Did they do this for business reasons - if so, what is the rationale behind that move? The MT back-and-forth would make for a very interesting case study of open source products vs. products with a variable price structure. It&#8217;s a case study in the making, and I can&#8217;t wait for the results. Time will tell which worked better for them - I hope Six Apart will share the numbers and the experience in a transparent fashion.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:43:28 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Carthik\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3898:\"<p>Movable Type is going open source. Yup. <a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2007/06/movable-type-4-beta.html\">MovableType 4 Beta has been announced</a> and the plans are to make it a fully GPL-ed, open source product. The announcement says:</p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;we wanted to explain why weâ€™ve made this massive investment in Movable Type and its community. The truth is, Movable Type is how Six Apart got started, and one of those ideas that motivated us from the very beginning is that weâ€™ve <strong>got a mission</strong>.</p></blockquote>\n<p>And then the rest of the post does nothing to explain <em>clearly</em> why they&#8217;ve made this massive investment. The rest of post explains how blogging empowers ordinary people, and that their mission is to get blogging to the masses. It also explains the role of Vox, LiveJournal and TypePad in the Six Apart world. A free version of MT was always available for personal use. So why make it open source? That&#8217;s the answer I was looking for, and did not find.</p>\n<p>I still clearly remember the day Mena announced <a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/about/corner/2004/05/its_about_time.html\">the new pricing structure for MovableType</a>. A day later, I wrote up a post on <a href=\"http://carthik.net/blog/vault/2004/05/14/movabletype-to-wordpress/\">how to move from Movable Type to WordPress</a>. Then, the exodus began - with famous users, like <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org\">Mark Pilgrim</a>, <a href=\"http://molly.com\">Molly</a>, and so many others shifting to WordPress. Those were busy days on the #wordpress IRC channel. The number of opinion-leading bloggers who used MT started declining, and most of the new bloggers who came after chose WordPress. While there is no reliable count of the number of WordPress Vs. Movable Type users, I dare say more folks use WordPress than MT. </p>\n<p>At the time of the announcement of the new pricing structure, the rationale was:</p>\n<blockquote><p>In preventing web hosts from offering Movable Type for a fee, we had to put a pretty strict blanket clause on our licenses to cover all cases when compensation was earned. Buying a commercial license to perform services was a bit backwards, but at the time, it was the only way we felt we could control the situation.</p></blockquote>\n<p>So the new pricing structure intended to let personal users continue to use MT while stifling other commercial entities from &#8220;profiting&#8221; from their product. How has this changed today? Today, not many commercial entities offer MT installations, I suppose. There is no evident mass-interest, and so they probably are no longer a significant threat.</p>\n<p>Some answers can be found at the <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/\">Movable Type open source page</a>. They say the reason for an open source release is as simple as that the users asked for it. They asked for it en-masse just about 3 years ago. So though it sounds like a valid reason, I suspect that is not all there is to it. Whatever the reasons behind the change of mind, I welcome it. WordPress needs competition. I just wish the <a href=\"http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2007/06/movable-type-4-beta.html\">MT 4 Beta announcement</a> wasn&#8217;t so wishy-washy. Did they make a mistake in announcing their pricing structure earlier? Did they realize that releasing their flagship product as an open source product will revitalize their mind share? Did they do this for business reasons - if so, what is the rationale behind that move? The MT back-and-forth would make for a very interesting case study of open source products vs. products with a variable price structure. It&#8217;s a case study in the making, and I can&#8217;t wait for the results. Time will tell which worked better for them - I hope Six Apart will share the numbers and the experience in a transparent fashion.</p>\";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:64:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Global Variables and the WordPress Loop\";s:4:\"guid\";s:93:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/06/global-variables-and-the-wordpress-loop/\";s:4:\"link\";s:93:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/06/global-variables-and-the-wordpress-loop/\";s:11:\"description\";s:7558:\"<p><em>My name is Ronald Huereca and am a new author here at WLTC.  I come from a technical and business background with a degree in EET and a MS in Business Administration.  I hope to share with the WTLC readers some of little intricacies of WordPress, whether it be theme or plugin related.  I have written a few plugins, one called <a href=\"http://www.devlounge.net/extras/feed-styler\">Feed Styler</a> and the other <a href=\"http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\">Ajax Edit Comments</a>.  I currently write for my <a href=\"http://www.ronalfy.com\">personal blog</a>, the <a href=\"http://www.raproject.com\">Reader Appreciation Project</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.devlounge.net\">Devlounge</a>.  I am open to any and all feedback, so if there is something you&#8217;d like to see me write about, please let me know.</em></p>\n<p>When coding a WordPress plugin, one thing that must be quickly mastered is that of the WordPress loop and global variables.  Once mastered, a plugin author can tell which global variables are accessible, and which are not.</p>\n<p>With certain WordPress <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference\" title=\"WordPress Action Reference\">Action</a> and <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference\" title=\"WordPress Filters Reference\">Filters</a>, it&#8217;s easier to tell where within the loop certain code is executed. Sometimes, however, you don&#8217;t want to use an action or filter and want to simply have a template tag that is called from within the loop. When doing this, you want to make sure you know exactly what global variables you are trying to access and what result you&#8217;d like to achieve.</p>\n<p>Within this post, I will dissect the WordPress loop so that you might have a better understanding of what variables are available to be called by template tags of functions called from within the WordPress loop.</p>\n<h2>The WordPress Loop</h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop\">WordPress loop</a> is the loop that displays the posts on a particular page and also the comments if on a single post.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/wordpress_loop.gif\" alt=\"WordPress Loop Diagram\" /></p>\n<p>Within your default <tt>index.php</tt> theme file, the loop  begins when you see this code:</p>\n<blockquote><p><code>&lt;?php if (have_posts()) : ?&gt;<br />\n&lt;?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?&gt;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>The two functions <tt>have_posts()</tt> and <tt>the_post()</tt> are both property functions that access methods within the <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query\">WP_Query class</a>.</p>\n<p>The <tt>have_posts</tt> function checks to see if the current post number is less than the number of posts you choose to display in the Admin panel.  The loop will then continue until the current post number reachers the maximum number of posts you have decided to show.</p>\n<p>If you were to dissect <tt>the_post</tt> function, you would find that it searches for the global variable <tt>$post</tt>.  The <tt>the_post</tt> function gets the first post (and subsequent posts through each loop iteration), and sets up the post data (author, multi-page, etc).  This data is assigned to the <tt>$post</tt> variable globally, so you may access it as well.</p>\n<p>After <tt>the_post()</tt> has been called, you have access to a multitude of <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags\">template tags</a> and <a href=\"http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/02/25/wordpress-global-variables/\">global variables</a>.  Below are some examples of template tags that are now available:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author\">the_author</a>: Retrieves the author&#8217;s name.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_title\">the_title</a>: Displays the title of the current post.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content\">the_content</a>: Displays the contents of the post.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink\">the_permalink</a>: Displays the URL for the post in the form of a permalink.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_ID\">the_ID</a>:Displays the post ID.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Listed below are the global variable equivalents of each of those template tags:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global variable <tt>authordata</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p><code>global $authordata;<br />\necho $authordata-&gt;display_name;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>The <tt>authordata</tt> global can also access: nickname, last_name, first_name, ID, user_email, user_url, user_login, description, and several others.</li>\n<li>Global variable <tt>post</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p><code>global $post;<br />\necho $post-&gt;post_title;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>The <tt>post</tt> global can also access: ID, post_author, post_date, post_excerpt, comment_count, and several others.</li>\n<li>Global variable <tt>post</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p> <code>global $post;<br />\necho $post-&gt;post_content;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>Keep in mind that accessing the content this way is accessing the unfiltered and untouched post content.  This is useful if you wanted to manipulate the content to your liking instead of WordPress having a say in the content appearance.</li>\n<li>There is no quick global access, but all <tt>the_permalink</tt> function does is echo out the results of the function <tt>get_permalink</tt> with the assumption that the <tt>$id</tt> variable is set.</li>\n<li>Global variable <tt>id</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p> <code>global $id;<br />\necho $id;</code></p></blockquote>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>A Template Tag Example</h3>\n<p>Say you made a custom template tag called <tt>get_my_trackback</tt> that was to do something everytime a trackback was detected within the comments loop.  You would place the function call within the <tt>foreach</tt> comments loop in the <tt>comments.php</tt> template file. This example assumes that you are on a single post using the <tt>single.php</tt> template file.</p>\n<blockquote><p><code>&lt;?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?&gt;<br />\nget_my_trackback();<br />\n&lt;?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?&gt;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>Within this <tt>get_my_trackback</tt> function, you can do something like:</p>\n<blockquote><p><code>function get_my_trackback() {<br />\nglobal $comment;<br />\nif (empty($comment)) { return; }<br />\nif ($comment-&gt;comment_type != \'comment\') {<br />\n//do trackback stuff<br />\n}<br />\n}<br />\n</code></p></blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/comments_loop.gif\" alt=\"WordPress Comments Loop Diagram\" /></p>\n<p>The <tt>comment</tt> global allows you to access the comment database fields so you can do just about anything regarding the comment. Please notice that the global variable is not assumed to be set. You always want to make sure the variable has a value before proceeding so that errors are minimal.</p>\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\n<p>Within this post the WordPress loop was dissected and global variables explained so that you may access them from a template tag in an include file or a WordPress plugin. If you have any questions, comments, or additions, please feel free to weigh in.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:00:12 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:14:\"Ronald Huereca\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:7558:\"<p><em>My name is Ronald Huereca and am a new author here at WLTC.  I come from a technical and business background with a degree in EET and a MS in Business Administration.  I hope to share with the WTLC readers some of little intricacies of WordPress, whether it be theme or plugin related.  I have written a few plugins, one called <a href=\"http://www.devlounge.net/extras/feed-styler\">Feed Styler</a> and the other <a href=\"http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\">Ajax Edit Comments</a>.  I currently write for my <a href=\"http://www.ronalfy.com\">personal blog</a>, the <a href=\"http://www.raproject.com\">Reader Appreciation Project</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.devlounge.net\">Devlounge</a>.  I am open to any and all feedback, so if there is something you&#8217;d like to see me write about, please let me know.</em></p>\n<p>When coding a WordPress plugin, one thing that must be quickly mastered is that of the WordPress loop and global variables.  Once mastered, a plugin author can tell which global variables are accessible, and which are not.</p>\n<p>With certain WordPress <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference\" title=\"WordPress Action Reference\">Action</a> and <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference\" title=\"WordPress Filters Reference\">Filters</a>, it&#8217;s easier to tell where within the loop certain code is executed. Sometimes, however, you don&#8217;t want to use an action or filter and want to simply have a template tag that is called from within the loop. When doing this, you want to make sure you know exactly what global variables you are trying to access and what result you&#8217;d like to achieve.</p>\n<p>Within this post, I will dissect the WordPress loop so that you might have a better understanding of what variables are available to be called by template tags of functions called from within the WordPress loop.</p>\n<h2>The WordPress Loop</h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop\">WordPress loop</a> is the loop that displays the posts on a particular page and also the comments if on a single post.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/wordpress_loop.gif\" alt=\"WordPress Loop Diagram\" /></p>\n<p>Within your default <tt>index.php</tt> theme file, the loop  begins when you see this code:</p>\n<blockquote><p><code>&lt;?php if (have_posts()) : ?&gt;<br />\n&lt;?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?&gt;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>The two functions <tt>have_posts()</tt> and <tt>the_post()</tt> are both property functions that access methods within the <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query\">WP_Query class</a>.</p>\n<p>The <tt>have_posts</tt> function checks to see if the current post number is less than the number of posts you choose to display in the Admin panel.  The loop will then continue until the current post number reachers the maximum number of posts you have decided to show.</p>\n<p>If you were to dissect <tt>the_post</tt> function, you would find that it searches for the global variable <tt>$post</tt>.  The <tt>the_post</tt> function gets the first post (and subsequent posts through each loop iteration), and sets up the post data (author, multi-page, etc).  This data is assigned to the <tt>$post</tt> variable globally, so you may access it as well.</p>\n<p>After <tt>the_post()</tt> has been called, you have access to a multitude of <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags\">template tags</a> and <a href=\"http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/02/25/wordpress-global-variables/\">global variables</a>.  Below are some examples of template tags that are now available:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author\">the_author</a>: Retrieves the author&#8217;s name.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_title\">the_title</a>: Displays the title of the current post.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content\">the_content</a>: Displays the contents of the post.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink\">the_permalink</a>: Displays the URL for the post in the form of a permalink.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_ID\">the_ID</a>:Displays the post ID.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Listed below are the global variable equivalents of each of those template tags:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global variable <tt>authordata</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p><code>global $authordata;<br />\necho $authordata-&gt;display_name;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>The <tt>authordata</tt> global can also access: nickname, last_name, first_name, ID, user_email, user_url, user_login, description, and several others.</li>\n<li>Global variable <tt>post</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p><code>global $post;<br />\necho $post-&gt;post_title;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>The <tt>post</tt> global can also access: ID, post_author, post_date, post_excerpt, comment_count, and several others.</li>\n<li>Global variable <tt>post</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p> <code>global $post;<br />\necho $post-&gt;post_content;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>Keep in mind that accessing the content this way is accessing the unfiltered and untouched post content.  This is useful if you wanted to manipulate the content to your liking instead of WordPress having a say in the content appearance.</li>\n<li>There is no quick global access, but all <tt>the_permalink</tt> function does is echo out the results of the function <tt>get_permalink</tt> with the assumption that the <tt>$id</tt> variable is set.</li>\n<li>Global variable <tt>id</tt> can be used.  You could call it in a function using this code:<br />\n<blockquote><p> <code>global $id;<br />\necho $id;</code></p></blockquote>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>A Template Tag Example</h3>\n<p>Say you made a custom template tag called <tt>get_my_trackback</tt> that was to do something everytime a trackback was detected within the comments loop.  You would place the function call within the <tt>foreach</tt> comments loop in the <tt>comments.php</tt> template file. This example assumes that you are on a single post using the <tt>single.php</tt> template file.</p>\n<blockquote><p><code>&lt;?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?&gt;<br />\nget_my_trackback();<br />\n&lt;?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?&gt;</code></p></blockquote>\n<p>Within this <tt>get_my_trackback</tt> function, you can do something like:</p>\n<blockquote><p><code>function get_my_trackback() {<br />\nglobal $comment;<br />\nif (empty($comment)) { return; }<br />\nif ($comment-&gt;comment_type != \'comment\') {<br />\n//do trackback stuff<br />\n}<br />\n}<br />\n</code></p></blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/06/comments_loop.gif\" alt=\"WordPress Comments Loop Diagram\" /></p>\n<p>The <tt>comment</tt> global allows you to access the comment database fields so you can do just about anything regarding the comment. Please notice that the global variable is not assumed to be set. You always want to make sure the variable has a value before proceeding so that errors are minimal.</p>\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\n<p>Within this post the WordPress loop was dissected and global variables explained so that you may access them from a template tag in an include file or a WordPress plugin. If you have any questions, comments, or additions, please feel free to weigh in.</p>\";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Movable Type Open Source Project\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/05/movable-type-open-source-project/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/05/movable-type-open-source-project/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1169:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/\">Movable Type Open Source Project</a>: I know I had read this news a couple of times today but it obviously did not sink in until now. The light in my brain finally flickered on when I read through the <a href=\"http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/movable_type_40.php\">RWW</a> post in detail. Moveable Type announced the long awaited Version 4 of their publishing platform and along with that came the announcement that they would release a GPL&#8217;d Open Source version of their software in Q3 2007. That is a significant decision considering some of the past tribulations of the platform and in my mind validates the dual revenue model of Open Source Software based companies. According to the MTOS website, they are really committed to the commercial version of MT and are just replying to customers&#8217; repeated requests for an Open Source version.</p>\n<p>This sounds like a highly calculated business decision. 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