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  1. The Road To Automation

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:31 pm MDT

    When WordPress 2.3 was released into the wild, one of the new features was an update notification which told you when there was a new version of WordPress or a plugin available for download. This was possible thanks to the API service called api.wordpress.org. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of attending WordCamp Dallas

  2. NFL on WordPress

    → Matt Mullenweg | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:43 am MDT

    The new NFL blogs are on WordPress and hosted on VIP. Check out this info and video about it.

  3. 1000 things I’ve learned about blogging from OJB

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 6 Sep 2008 | 3:31 pm MDT

    1000 things I’ve learned about blogging from the Online Journalism Blog.: An interesting and long-ish list of lessons that the author (I could not figure out who wrote this article from their list of authors. I am assuming it was Paul Bradshaw. Multi-author blogs really, really need to think about adding the name of the

  4. Twitter Tools 1.5b3

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:39 pm MDT

    I’ve got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release is just the same as 1.5b2, but fixes the duplicate custom field issue for people running WordPress 2.6+. Hopefully this will be ready for a full [...]

  5. WordPress 2.6.x “Duplicate Custom Field” Issue

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 6 Sep 2008 | 10:09 am MDT

    This is an explanation of a solution to a specific problem with one of my plugins, but the issue is larger and should be understood by all WordPress plugin developers. Posting the write-up here with the hope it will be useful. The issue is a change in the activity happening in the save_post hook. I’d probably [...]

  6. WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/06

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:51 am MDT

    Vipers Video Quicktags Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the

  7. WordPress Theme Releases for 09/05

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 5 Sep 2008 | 10:52 am MDT

    Live Three column, green, yellow and white widget ready theme Multi Header Two column theme with 39 inbuilt headers Eco Nature Two column WordPress theme based on the colors of nature Vistalicious Vistalicious is a clean theme with two columns and a green flavored background. It is advertising ready and easily customizable. If you are new to WordPress themes, you might want to

  8. Martha Stewart on WP

    → Matt Mullenweg | 4 Sep 2008 | 7:27 pm MDT

    “As my blog has grown in popularity, we realized we were ready to switch to a platform offering more programming options. After careful research, that new platform will be Wordpress, which we hope to launch tomorrow with an exciting photo gallery from my most recent trip to Mexico.” — Martha Stewart. Ms. Stewart was [...]

  9. Child Themes for WordPress: A pictorial introduction for beginners

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 4 Sep 2008 | 4:46 pm MDT

    How to make a “child theme” for WordPress. A pictorial introduction for beginners: Demetris has put together a comprehensive, step by step pictorial instruction set for creating your own Child Themes for WordPress. He assures me that the set of instructions are easy to follow. Child themes are WordPress themes that behave like parent themes (or

  10. WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/04

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:11 pm MDT

    OpenX Plugin Integrate OpenX on your blog Auto Blogroll This plug-in makes easier for website links exchange, you only need to set up pr value minimum limit at background, to achieve link exchange without need of manual check in front. Facebook Badge With the Facelook Plugin you can easily display a facebook Badge in the Sider Bar of your on

  11. Do You Remember Your First Blog Post? If You Do, You Could Win!

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:02 pm MDT

    Liz Strauss is holding the “Bring Back That ‘Brand New’ Blogging Feeling Event” contest and giving you a chance to win a premium WordPress Theme from Blog Design Studio and a copy of her ebook. Whether you win or not, it’s a chance to really push your blogging creativity. The challenge is to take a picture [...]

  12. WordCamp Birmingham

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 4 Sep 2008 | 6:43 am MDT

    WordCamp Birmingham September 27-28, 2008

    If you haven’t already heard, WordCamp Birmingham is coming up on September 27 & 28, 2008. [...]



  13. Blogs Offer Communication, Information, and Connections During Disasters

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 3 Sep 2008 | 12:54 pm MDT

    Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today just called me from Northern Louisiana to report that he and his family have survived the evacuation from their home in Shreveport, Louisiana, though Hurricane Gustav appears to have done more damage where they evacuated to rather than where they left from. Jonathan and I were both victims of Hurricane Katrina [...]

  14. WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/03

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:58 am MDT

    XCache Object Cache Plugin for WordPress 2.5+ The object-cache plugin is a bit of code added to WordPress which communicates with a caching service in order to reduce the number of database queries it needs to make when building your pages. Together, this helps reduce the CPU load on your web server. Paopaobing Smiley plugin Funny and cute

  15. Day in Davao

    → Matt Mullenweg | 3 Sep 2008 | 2:00 am MDT

    Arriving in Davao from Manila, dinner, and drinks.

  16. Social Media Bible Podcast

    → Matt Mullenweg | 2 Sep 2008 | 4:22 pm MDT

    The Social Media Bible Podcast interview.

  17. In Philippines

    → Matt Mullenweg | 2 Sep 2008 | 4:18 pm MDT

    Landed in the Philippines a few hours ago. Looking forward to meeting WordPress users in Davao and Manila! In other news, the immigration/customs forms here are sponsored by a booze company. Smartly, though, they use carbon copy so you don’t have to write the exact same thing twice, like you do in the US.

  18. Better Image Detection

    → Gravatar Blog | 2 Sep 2008 | 3:30 pm MDT

    Just a quick note on a subtle improvement… In the past when you have uploaded an image to gravatar.com that was not a png, jpeg, or gif, we presented you with a big fat error page (which nobody, ourselves included, likes to see.)  So as of now we do some back end trickery to attempt to [...]

  19. First Look At WordPress 2.7

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 2 Sep 2008 | 5:56 am MDT

    Although tentatively scheduled for November, WordPress 2.7 looks to be as big of a release since WordPress 2.5, perhaps even bigger. Before reading the rest of this post, please keep in mind that what you see in the following screenshots is by no means a representation of the final product. Also keep in mind that

  20. WordPress Theme Releases for 09/02

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 2 Sep 2008 | 5:53 am MDT

    Keep It Simple Two columns, widget ready, elegant theme. Fat Mary Fat Mary is a green-like, three column, rounded corners theme with the header and footer in the main column. Urban Life Urban Life is 2 columns green-gray, widget ready WordPress theme. Square Splatter Single column theme with information at the bottom Prologue Gaboogle Inspired by social networks such as twitter, Jaiku, plurk, and

  21. XCache Object Cache Plugin for WordPress 2.5+

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 2 Sep 2008 | 5:47 am MDT

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    This is another one of those articles that will be of interest to a minority of WordPress users. [...]

  22. Mark Surman on WordPress

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 1 Sep 2008 | 5:44 pm MDT

    commonspace: Mark Surman, incumbent Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation is now blogging on WordPress (.com) after having mostly successfully moved his Typepad blog to WordPress. If you take a look around Mark’s blog and read his musings, the incessant flow of energy, the unending passion for the Open Source movement and the push for

  23. WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/01

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 1 Sep 2008 | 11:44 am MDT

    Apache Google 404 AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax and a couple tricks to display a very helpful and SEO Error Page.  The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site. Regenerate Thumbnails Regenerate all attachment thumbnails in one-click. Useful if you

  24. Upcoming events I’ll be attending

    → Mark on WordPress | 30 Aug 2008 | 2:22 am MDT

    Here’s a list of upcoming blogging/WordPress/tech events that I’m planning on attending: Blog Orlando - September 27th This event has been a bunch of fun the last two years — wouldn’t miss it. WordCamp Toronto - October 4th and 5th About 90% sure I’ll be going to this. BarCamp Tampa Bay - October 11th and 12th The tech/blogging community in Tampa [...]

  25. WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/30

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 30 Aug 2008 | 12:38 am MDT

    Extended Categories Widget A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget. Protected Post Password Hint Traditionally all password protected posts contain a boiler-plate password form without any hints. Without any capability to change the string, one must provide the hint in another post, which is a bit clumsy. Not to mention,

  26. WordPress 2.6.2-beta1

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 29 Aug 2008 | 4:17 pm MDT

    It looks like there’s going to be another point-release of WordPress coming soon. WordPress version 2.6.2-beta1 was just branded in svn a short while ago. . [...]



  27. Captcha is Broken

    → Matt Mullenweg | 28 Aug 2008 | 1:06 pm MDT

    Captcha is broken - now what? The Guardian. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around.

  28. WordPress Theme Releases for 08/28

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 28 Aug 2008 | 9:18 am MDT

    Transport It’s dark, and stylish, with a static patterned background, it’s grey with a dash of blue. It has two columns, and is widget ready. White 2 cols it is plain, simple, and grey and white. Blue Simple two column, blue theme. Green Island Two column, green and blue theme. This theme uses the frontpage as a summery of the blog/site. Not

  29. WordPress Hacks: 21 tips to make you smile

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 28 Aug 2008 | 7:29 am MDT

    Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively. Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc. 10 WordPress Hacks to make Your

  30. Tackle Plugin Compatibility Issues While Using Popular Libraries

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 27 Aug 2008 | 2:20 pm MDT

    I recently got a email from a plugin developer, with regards to him having compatibility issues with one of the plugins I had developed. It turned out that both our plugins used a popular library called PclZip for adding archiving features. Due to the compatibility issue, accessing his plugin would cause a fatal PHP error

  31. Twitter Tools 1.5b2

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 27 Aug 2008 | 12:48 pm MDT

    I’ve got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release has a couple of bug fixes (from version 1.5b1) and a couple of new features: fixed a logical bug that made the “exclude replies” option work [...]

  32. SxSW 2009 Panel Vote

    → Matt Mullenweg | 26 Aug 2008 | 11:31 am MDT

    Riding the Crazyhorse: Iterative Testing and Design of WordPress. If that sounds like something you’d want to see at SxSW 2009 presented by Liz Danzico, Jane Wells, and yours truly then vote early and often. Polls close soon.

  33. Ballot Design

    → Matt Mullenweg | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:07 pm MDT

    How Design Can Save Democracy. AIGA tackles election ballots.

  34. South Africa: Stormhoek Tour

    → Matt Mullenweg | 24 Aug 2008 | 2:00 am MDT

    Sunday tour of the Stormhoek wine farm; pizza + pool.

  35. My Comment Count is Bigger Than Your Comment Count!

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 23 Aug 2008 | 3:15 pm MDT

    With the push towards a successful blog being defined by its comments, a new WordPress Plugin has appeared that may push the comment frenzy even more. PlanetOzh has created the Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin which honors the popular blog conversation expert, Liz Strauss. If you want to brag about your blog’s comment [...]

  36. WordCamp Portland: How Has WordPress Changed Your Life?

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 23 Aug 2008 | 12:55 pm MDT

    The agenda of speakers for WordCamp Portland is out and I’m the keynote speaker. And I need your help. I will be talking about how WordPress is changing lives, not just from the blogging experience but truly changing your life from stem to stern. WordPress and WordPress.com free blogs give a voice to those who may never [...]

  37. WordCamp South Africa Photos

    → Matt Mullenweg | 23 Aug 2008 | 2:00 am MDT

    Photos from WordCamp South Africa and Wembley Square afterward.

  38. WordCamp 2008 San Francisco Summary, Tweets, Flickrs, and More

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 22 Aug 2008 | 7:25 pm MDT

    I just published WordCamp 2008 - Snapshot of the Changing Social of Conferences on the Blog Herald with a ton of WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco live blogging, Twitter tweets, Flickr flicks, YouTube videos, and more. There is also a list of the speaker’s slide shows, blogs, and video that are currently available. This is [...]

  39. Olympians on WP

    → Matt Mullenweg | 22 Aug 2008 | 4:51 pm MDT

    Shawn Johnson, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. Dreamhost says “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 comments. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen?

  40. Travel to South Africa

    → Matt Mullenweg | 22 Aug 2008 | 2:00 am MDT

    Arriving to Cape Town and geek drinks at Asoka.

  41. ShareThis 2.3

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 21 Aug 2008 | 7:29 pm MDT

    There’s a new version of ShareThis out this evening. This release fixes a bug in version 2.2 where the ShareThis button might not be visible correctly if your WordPress theme shows post excerpts on certain pages. ShareThis is a plugin that makes it easy for your visitors to share your content to other people or online [...]

  42. Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 21 Aug 2008 | 6:46 pm MDT

    I’ve uploaded my program from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco to SlideShare and showcased it below. I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups - in every [...]

  43. Happy Birthday Jamie

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 20 Aug 2008 | 5:00 pm MDT

    Happy Birthday Jamie! Fourteen Today! Hope you have a wonderful day, Love and hugs Mum and Dad xoxoxox

  44. MT Pro w/ Comments

    → Matt Mullenweg | 20 Aug 2008 | 9:33 am MDT

    Movable Type Pro — with Comments! The latest innovation in blogging. See the original here.

  45. New Lijit WordPress Plugin

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 20 Aug 2008 | 1:17 am MDT

    There’s a new and improved Lijit WordPress plugin available for download. This version is one that my company, Crowd Favorite, had the pleasure of helping build. The new plugin makes it easy for you to enable Lijit search from the default WordPress search box, or you can add in the full Lijit widget wijit if you [...]

  46. Blog World Expo Discount

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 19 Aug 2008 | 10:54 am MDT

    If you have plans or are considering attending Blog World Expo in Las Vegas on September 20-21, 2008, Guy Kawasaki is offering a special BlogWorld Expo Special Discount for an additional 20% off the early-bird prices (expire August 22). I will be there, along with the whole Woopra team to talk Woopra, WordPress, blogging, and [...]

  47. U.S. Government Agencies Using WordPress

    → Mark on WordPress | 18 Aug 2008 | 9:59 pm MDT

    Here is a list (probably not all-inclusive) of United States government agencies or organizations using WordPress (whether privately or publicly): Air Force Army Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Coast Guard Defense Intelligence Agency Department of Energy Department of Homeland Security Department of State Department of Treasury Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Marine Corps Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency National Reconnaissance Agency National Security Agency (NSA) Navy This list was revealed [...]

  48. WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Photos

    → Matt Mullenweg | 18 Aug 2008 | 1:04 pm MDT

    Adam Tow got some great photos at WordCamp. Update: Here are mine. See also: This hilarious set with the WordCamp sign Duane Storey’s Randy Stewart’s Ben Metcalfe’s Andrew Mager Nick from CNP’s Jenn Vargas Dennis Goedegebuure’s Mark Ghosh’s Lorelle’s Chiropractic’s Byrne Reese’s (MT developer, a spy? :)) Liz Danzico’s Chris Heuer’s Hugo Baeta’s Alan Levine’s Laura Iriarte’s Jeremy Person’s Niall Kennedy’s Douglas Bell’s Scott Beale’s Emily Chang’s The WordPress Tattoos Some funny ones from the WP Scavenger [...]

  49. WordCamp 2008 San Francisco - Great Fun. Pictures Don’t Lie.

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 18 Aug 2008 | 11:28 am MDT

    WordCamp 2008 brought WordPress fans from around the world to San Francisco. I am always stunned by the lengths so many people take to travel so far for WordPress. Their passion and dedication is to be applauded as every one brings their unique perspective to a WordPress event and the WordPress Community. And they bring their [...]

  50. Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008 Slides

    → Mark on WordPress | 16 Aug 2008 | 5:04 pm MDT

    Here are the slides from my Secure Coding with WordPress presentation at WordCamp SF 2008:

  51. WordCamp SF Coverage

    → Matt Mullenweg | 16 Aug 2008 | 4:57 pm MDT

    The best ongoing coverage of WordCamp SF I’ve seen is on ZDNet today. If you post/Flickr use the tags “wordcamp” and “wordcampsf2008″. See also: Techcrunch’s coverage.

  52. WordCamp Utah

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 15 Aug 2008 | 6:39 pm MDT

    WordCamp Utah is coming! September 27th is the date - registration is open. I’m quite looking forward to this (particularly since I wasn’t able to make WordCamp SF this weekend), both as a speaker and as an attendee. I’ll probably be flying in Friday mid-day and out on Sunday. Big thanks to Joseph Scott for organizing. My company, Crowd [...]

  53. WordPress 2.6.1

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 14 Aug 2008 | 10:08 pm MDT

    2.6.1 is out.  Thanks for testing.  The beta releases had very good download numbers, and the helpful responses in the comments and on the bug tracker were great.

  54. WordPress 2.6.1

    → WordPress Development Blog | 14 Aug 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable “dot zero” bugs into your hands without a long wait.  If you’re happy with 2.6, however, keep on using it.  You need not upgrade to 2.6.1 if 2.6 is getting the [...]

  55. WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 2

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 11 Aug 2008 | 11:27 pm MDT

    Thanks to those who tested Beta 1.  Beta 2 addresses the bugs you found.  Reference the change log and the full diff to see what has changed since Beta 1.  We’re now at almost 60 tickets fixed for 2.6.1. Get 2.6.1 Beta 2.

  56. Exclusive First Interview with Woopra Co-Founders

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 9 Aug 2008 | 5:32 am MDT

    I was honored to be the first to interview Elie Khoury and Jad Younan, co-founders of Woopra, the exciting new web analytics program currently in beta. We were at the LT Pact Conference in Las Vegas. The interview is featured in this week’s WordPress Podcast with Charles Stricklin. We talked about Woopra and the Woopra WordPress [...]

  57. Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco Next Weekend

    → Lorelle on WordPress » WordPress News | 8 Aug 2008 | 11:55 pm MDT

    I will be speaking at WordCamp San Francisco next week, covering 260 Ways to Break WordPress and asking WordPress fans for their tips and techniques for breaking WordPress, and putting it back together again. What about you? Have you broken WordPress? How? The line up of speakers for next weekend’s one-day event is the best of [...]

  58. WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 1

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 7 Aug 2008 | 10:40 pm MDT

    With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a dot one release about a month after dot zero.  We want to get fixes for the inevitable dot zero bugs into your hands without a long wait.  If you’re happy with 2.6, you can ignore 2.6.1. If you are an IIS or i18n user, we’ve fixed a [...]

  59. WordPress 2.6.1-beta1

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 7 Aug 2008 | 7:54 pm MDT

    I’m surprised that I haven’t seen mention of this from other channels yet (official or unofficial), but two days ago, SVN revision 8561 of the WordPress 2.6 branch was labled as WordPress version 2.6.1-beta1. [...]



  60. Gravatar + WordCamp = Awesome

    → Gravatar Blog | 5 Aug 2008 | 11:09 pm MDT

    WordCamp San Francisco 2008 badges will be printed with your Gravatar image. Check out Andy’s sweet mockup to see what it will look like. Be sure your Gravatar email matches the one you use for registration, and have your image ready to go before August 14. If you haven’t already, try uploading a higher res image, [...]

  61. Twitter Tools 1.5b1

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 5 Aug 2008 | 3:39 pm MDT

    I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to test. This version has a number of changes, including one that has been very frequently requested: Weekly digests! This needs a good deal of testing, help us find bugs Ability to exclude @replies from daily and weekly digests and blog posts Updates to match Twitter API changes so [...]

  62. Episode 44: WordPress 2.6 released, iPhone app, XML-RPC controversy, theme repository, and an exclusive interview with Woopra developers

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:27 pm MDT

    Okay, here’s the episode… I’ll be writing the show notes when I have some time. Fair warning: The entire episode clocks in at over 1 hour 20 minutes because we had so much material to slog through. Rest assured, as soon as I am able, I’ll be posting it.

  63. iPhone 2.0.1 with WP App 1.1

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 4 Aug 2008 | 7:54 pm MDT

    I’m trying out the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware along with WP App 1.1. Both were released today. 2.0.1 seems to fix the keyboard lag that was coaxing expletives out of me. WP 1.1 is solid so far. We’ve been working on extending the WP XML-RPC API to allow the iPhone App (and [...]

  64. 404s and WordPress Server Load

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 31 Jul 2008 | 2:20 am MDT

    A few months back we launched a site redesign/redevelopment project for a client, and made a simple mistake that had some interesting ramifications. It’s worth posting here so others don’t make the same mistake. What Happened When redeveloping the site, we moved the WordPress instance from the web root: /public_html/wp-config.php /public_html/wp-includes/ /public_html/… to a subdirectory within the web root: /public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php /public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/ /public_html/… I consider this [...]

  65. The Guardian on Akismet

    → Akismet Blog | 30 Jul 2008 | 8:59 pm MDT

    The Guardian’s Michael Pollitt says some kind words about Akismet in today’s Technology section, as he notes that Comment spammers never take a holiday. Mullenweg publishes a graph on Akismet.com which shows comments being exceeded by daily spam peaks of more than 25m. Checking out the spam blocked counter on my blog is satisfying, showing [...]

  66. One-line plugin of the day

    → Mark on WordPress | 30 Jul 2008 | 11:47 am MDT

    Opens the post timestamp editing fields without you having to click the “Edit” link every time. Great for people who are always scheduling their posts. add_action('admin_head',create_function('$a', "echo \"<script type='text/javascript'>\n<!--\naddLoadEvent(function(){jQuery('.edit-timestamp').click();});\n//-->\n</script>\";"),50);

  67. How to write a solid and stable WordPress plugin

    → Mark on WordPress | 23 Jul 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    The b5media tech team was having a discussion today about what criteria we use when reviewing a WordPress plugin for possible inclusion on one of our sites or across our network. It makes for a good list of what to do (or not do) when writing a WordPress plugin, something that might be generally [...]

  68. WordPress for iPhone

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 21 Jul 2008 | 11:08 pm MDT

    I’m writing this on the WordPress app for the iPhone, which is now available. Now if only the iPhone had cut-and-paste.

  69. Back home from WordCamp UK

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 21 Jul 2008 | 3:08 am MDT

    I’m back from WordCamp UK. It was a fantastic weekend and I am very pleased to have met so many interesting and talented people. The presentations and talks were very informative, and I learnt a lot, which is always a good thing. I have to thank my fellow question time participants and fellow code surgeons for [...]

  70. Almost ready for WordCampUK

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 18 Jul 2008 | 11:02 am MDT

    I’m almost ready for my trip to WordCamp UK. I’m going first thing tomorrow morning by train. “It’s easier by train”, and as it happens, the car is broken and in the menders! I forgot to mention that I am also on the Code Surgery panel on Sunday too. If you have any coding problems there [...]

  71. Theme Directory

    → WordPress Development Blog | 18 Jul 2008 | 12:11 am MDT

    It’s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes. With the success of the plugins directory, we’ve wanted to have those same [...]

  72. WordPress 2.6 Released

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 15 Jul 2008 | 6:13 am MDT

    The release of WordPress 2.6 is now official. In addition to the features I highlighted previously, Ryan has details on his blog about the improved support for SSL, and some new helper functions which will be useful for plugin and theme authors. [...]



  73. Congratulations to Andrew Ozz (azaozz)

    → Mark on WordPress | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:14 am MDT

    Not only does Andrew Ozz have one of the coolest names ever (His name starts with A and ends with Z, for heaven’s sake!), he also just gained commit access to the WordPress project! Congratulations, and well-deserved. The vote was unanimous. Andrew’s specialty is the Visual Editor (a.k.a. “Rich Text Editor”). [...]

  74. WordPress 2.6

    → WordPress Development Blog | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:38 pm MDT

    I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever [...]

  75. SSL and Cookies in WordPress 2.6

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 14 Jul 2008 | 6:25 pm MDT

    WordPress 2.6 includes better support for visiting the admin over SSL. Part of this support involves making sure authorization cookies are delivered only over SSL-encrypted HTTPS sessions.  To accommodate this while still allowing the option of visiting the admin over plain http, 2.6 moves from a single cookie setup to a three cookie setup. In previous [...]

  76. WordPress 2.6 Release Candidate 1

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 12 Jul 2008 | 11:35 pm MDT

    WordPress 2.6 Release Candidate 1 is now available. We think this is ready for release on Monday.  Try out RC1 and tell us if you agree.  New since Beta 3: Media uploader and gallery improvements Image caption and image editing fixes Press This fixes Ability to toggle between the flash uploader and a regular browser uploader Notification bubble on the [...]

  77. I’ll Be Speaking At WordCamp UK

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 10 Jul 2008 | 4:59 pm MDT

    Ooh! I’ve been invited to sit on the panel for a question and answer session on Saturday at WordCamp UK. I’m sort of looking forward to it. The current running order has the panel on just before lunch, but I don’t think that’s finalised yet. Tickets are still on sale and it’s a ticket only event. No [...]

  78. WordCamp UK 2008, 9 days to go

    → westi on wordpress | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:01 pm MDT

    WordCamp UK 2008 is fast approaching in fact there are only 9 days to go! I’ve got my ticket - have you got yours yet?  The organisers have arranged a packed 2 day program which is very good value for money.  I will be doing a talk on the sunday all about getting involved in [...]

  79. Aspiring Artist Kate

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:30 pm MDT

    Aspiring artist Kate Arthur has already caused quite a stir amongst students and staff at the Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College.

  80. WordPress 2.6 Beta 3

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 8 Jul 2008 | 11:57 pm MDT

    Almost there.  We have one more week to go before the final release of 2.6.  Until then, try out Beta 3.  New since Beta 2: Image captions Yet more inline documentation “Add Media” buttons for the RTE full-screen mode Theme Preview fixes Gallery sorting fixes I18N fixes See the full list of changes since Beta 2. Get Beta 3.

  81. WordPress 2.6 Beta 2

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 1 Jul 2008 | 5:11 pm MDT

    Another week, another beta.  New in beta 2: Insert image and edit image fixes SSL fixes i18n fixes Lots of new inline documentation Improved tag auto-suggest TinyMCE 3.1.1 with Opera 9.5 and Safari fixes, proper align = center removal, and improved embeds support jQuery UI 1.5.1 See the full list of changes since beta 2. Get beta 2.

  82. Update on WordPress blog APIs

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 30 Jun 2008 | 7:32 am MDT

    I mentioned previously that the XML-RPC and Atom blog APIs would be disabled by default when WordPress 2.6 is released. [...]



  83. PhoneFactor 1.0

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 27 Jun 2008 | 5:13 pm MDT

    PhoneFactor is a WordPress plugin that provides an additional layer of security when logging in to your WordPress site. It’s a pretty cool system. When you log in to your WordPress blog with PhoneFactor enabled, you receive a phone call asking you to press # to authorize. When you do so, you are logged in. If [...]

  84. Woot! WordCamp UK All Booked!

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 27 Jun 2008 | 3:28 pm MDT

    WordCamp-UK: Tickets Ordered, Hotel Booked, Train Tickets booked I’m going! Looking forward to both days events

  85. Add a Face to any Mailto:

    → Gravatar Blog | 27 Jun 2008 | 12:43 pm MDT

    Recently I came across a Greasemonkey userscript which adds a gravatar image to every mailto: link on a web page. Clever use of interesting technologies by docwhat.  Very cool!

  86. Episode 43: Out of date blogs hacked, All-In-One SEO gets dropped, then picked up

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:58 am MDT

    Brian Layman, of b5media, joins Charles as co-host, filling in for Jonathan Bailey who’s in Newcastle-upon-tyne, United Kingdom speaking at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference. Some blogs running older versions of WordPress were hacked. Peter offers a way to have your site notify you when things are changed. Support for the popular plugin All in One SEO Pack [...]

  87. DotNetNuke Shows Some Gravatar Love!

    → Gravatar Blog | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 am MDT

    Seems the guys working on DotNetNuke have added support for Gravatar!  Rip Rowan brought this to our attention in a recent comment, and we’re looking forward to helping to provide avatars for all those DNN sites.  Keep up the good work guys!

  88. Wordcamp UK - Change of Venue

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 24 Jun 2008 | 2:44 pm MDT

    After some last minute changes (and upsetting a few people) there is now a new venue for the WordCamp UK 2008 event. The new venue is The Studio, it is still in Birmingham, and in fact quite close to the previously planned venue. The Studio has a directions map and their main web site lists all [...]

  89. WordPress 2.6 Beta 1

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:20 am MDT

    Last night Ryan Boren announced the release of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1. At first glance, you probably wouldn’t notice much difference between versions 2.5 and 2.6. The two biggest new features are Post Revisions, which saves a history of edits made to each post, and support for Gears, which greatly speeds up working with the admin screens.

    Other changes of note:

    • Support for the XML-RPC and Atom client APIs is turned off by default now. [...]


  90. WordPress 2.6 Beta 1

    → Ryan Boren » WordPress | 23 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm MDT

    The features we slated for 2.6 have been in the repository for awhile now, so we’re going to start our beta cycle in preparation for a mid-July release.  Get Beta 1 here.  2.6 isn’t a big release like 2.5 was, but it has a few new features for you. Post Revisioning A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog [...]

  91. Batcache for WordPress

    → Andy Skelton » WordPress | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:47 pm MDT

    [I meant to publicize this after a period of quiet testing and feedback but the watchdogs at WLTC upended the kitten bag and forced my hand. Batcache comes with all the usual disclaimers. If you try it on a production server expect the moon to fall on your head.] People say WordPress can’t perform under pressure. The way most people [...]

  92. making the default install more secure

    → westi on wordpress | 20 Jun 2008 | 10:09 am MDT

    WordPress 2.6 will be more secure out-of-the box including better support for running the admin over SSL and changes to disable the remote publishing protocols by default. We have choosen to disable Atom Publishing Protocol and the variety of XML-RPC protocols by default as they expose a potential to be a security risk.  So from WordPress [...]

  93. Intense Debate Introduces Gravatar Support

    → Gravatar Blog | 13 Jun 2008 | 4:55 pm MDT

    The folks at comment tracking service Intense Debate have rolled out Gravatar support. Now all Intense Debate users can choose to use a Gravatar instead of upload a file for their avatar. Just enter your email address and you’re done. Couldn’t get much simpler than that. Gravatars used through Intense Debate appear on all comments that [...]

  94. Ron Paul launches Campaign for Liberty with WordPress blog

    → Mark on WordPress | 13 Jun 2008 | 12:16 pm MDT

    Ron Paul formally ended his U.S. presidential campaign and launched “phase 2″: the Campaign for Liberty — with the blog powered by WordPress, natch.

  95. WordCamp UK

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 12 Jun 2008 | 5:06 pm MDT

    WordCamp UK is an informal gathering of WordPress bloggers, podcasters, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom. When? - Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008 Where? - Aston University Lakeside Centre, Birmingham I’ll be there, will you? Find out more

  96. Burning Man starts a WordPress blog

    → Mark on WordPress | 12 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am MDT

    Burning Man, the almost impossible to encapsulate festival of art, hedonism and counter-cultural mayhem has launched a blog, powered by WordPress. Thanks to Scott Beale for the tip. Question for readers: what is the last organization in the world you’d expect to start blogging? My pick: The NSA — but when they do start blogging, they’ll [...]

  97. Episode 42: Our favorite plugins, Ask Matt, WordPress Theme Design

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:34 pm MDT

    Automattic CEO and WordPress project leader Matt Mullenweg was a guest on episode 17 of the WordPress Weekly podcast with Jeff Chandler, and during the show, I asked Matt why WordCamp San Francisco, scheduled this upcoming August 16th at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the campus of the University of California at San Francisco, [...]

  98. Image Transparency, You Want it? You Got it!

    → Gravatar Blog | 6 Jun 2008 | 2:18 pm MDT

    After a lot of tinkering, fiddling, poking, and prodding we’ve revamped the image support in gravatar. Now if you upload a GIF or a PNG we will preserve any transparency that might be in the image and serve that image to you as a PNG. Unfortunately this does not retroactively fix existing images with black [...]

  99. Plugin: WriteScroll

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 3 Jun 2008 | 8:31 am MDT

    A couple of weeks ago, Les Orchard tweeted a complaint about the WordPress editor:

    wordpress annoyance: textarea for editing a blog post doesn’t start until more than 1/2 way down my screen. [...]



  100. Chris Pirillo on Gravatar

    → Gravatar Blog | 28 May 2008 | 8:35 pm MDT

    We recently came across this screencast that Chris made: Is your Avatar a Gravatar? and we think he did a terrific job of breaking down what gravatar is, and what it does! It’s really awesome The only thing that we’d like to mention is that gravatar is not specific to WordPress, developers are free to [...]

  101. Austin WordPress Professional Office

    → Andy Skelton » WordPress | 27 May 2008 | 7:48 pm MDT

    We’re thinking of opening an Automattic office in Austin. Being the only local employee, I imagine sharing the space with independent/satellite WordPress professionals. Are you interested? Candidates should be earning all or part of their income working on WordPress (developing, designing, or servicing) and be able to defend their choice of editor. Benefits may include collaboration, [...]

  102. WordPress Birthday Party

    → WordPress Development Blog | 24 May 2008 | 11:51 pm MDT

    On Tuesday, May 27th, WordPress will turn 5 years old. We’ve come a long way from that original 0.7 release. To celebrate we’re throwing a party in San Francisco at 111 Minna, starting at 9PM. You can get the full details and RSVP on Upcoming.org or on Facebook. I hope you see some of you there, should [...]

  103. ACLU relaunches blog using WordPress

    → Mark on WordPress | 21 May 2008 | 1:05 pm MDT

    The American Civil Liberties Union relaunched their blog using WordPress 2.5.1 yesterday. It gets a new name, a new look, a new engine, and is given a kick start with a bunch of guest posts by popular human-rights bloggers.

  104. Usability Testing in New York

    → WordPress Development Blog | 20 May 2008 | 4:13 pm MDT

    We’re doing some usability testing in New York City.  Join in if you’re in the area.

  105. Episode 41: WordPress 2.5.1 released, Webware 100

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 18 May 2008 | 9:03 pm MDT

    I’ve been busy with other things and sitting on this episode, which Jonathan and I recorded several weekends ago. I’ve finally gotten around to editing it down and it includes: WordPress 2.5.1 was released April 25th, and includes a significant security fix, so you should update as soon as possible if you haven’t done so already. [...]

  106. Bob Barr enters U.S. presidential race, powered by WordPress

    → Mark on WordPress | 13 May 2008 | 9:20 am MDT

    Bob Barr, former Georgia Congressman, has announced a bid for the Libertarian nomination for president. He’s likely to receive it. Mr. Barr’s campaign blog is powered by WordPress. He even has open comments on his blog’s entries!

  107. Identicons Deploy

    → Gravatar Blog | 4 May 2008 | 3:26 pm MDT

    WordPress.com users now have more avatar options, to choose the new defaults we talked about previously. Those options will also be included with WordPress 2.6! Also — the PNG thing is on our radar. Will have to change some things up to make it work again, but it’s just code. [...]

  108. Upcoming WordCamps

    → WordPress Development Blog | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:54 am MDT

    WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there’s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I’ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you [...]

  109. Theme Browser “Fixed”

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 29 Apr 2008 | 12:32 pm MDT

    I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working. This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed. I had moved the theme browser from my site (to [...]

  110. The Faces of CPAN

    → Gravatar Blog | 28 Apr 2008 | 3:57 pm MDT

    Michael S. writes in to share with us two tidbits. The first is that there is now a Gravatar CPAN module (which is cool enough all on its own!) And that they have a very cool page allowing you to see “The Faces of CPAN” via their gravatars (CPAN has supported [...]

  111. Disqus supports Gravatar

    → Gravatar Blog | 25 Apr 2008 | 1:24 pm MDT

    The Disqus commenting system now has Gravatar support!

  112. WordPress 2.5.1: Shortcodes updates

    → Mark on WordPress | 25 Apr 2008 | 10:53 am MDT

    WordPress 2.5.1 is out, with a ton of little bug fixes and one important security fix. Go upgrade your 2.5 blogs now. One area that has changed is shortcodes, those little square bracket shortcuts like [gallery]. In WP 2.5, those were processed before paragraphs were auto-created and quotes were curled. This lead to [...]

  113. WordPress 2.5.1

    → WordPress Development Blog | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:54 am MDT

    Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly. In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. [...]

  114. Why Subscribe to Comments doesn’t let you check the subscription box by default

    → Mark on WordPress | 24 Apr 2008 | 3:10 pm MDT

    At one time, my Subscribe to Comments plugin would allow you to have the subscription checkbox checked by default. This is no longer the case. I get a lot of e-mail asking about this change, so I’d like to explain it. In short, having the box checked by default was causing people to subscribe [...]

  115. Episode 40: Technorati and older versions of WordPress, Woopra, Weblog Tools Videos

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 24 Apr 2008 | 3:55 am MDT

    In this episode of The WordPress Podcast: Jonathan and I briefly discuss our experiences at WordCamp Dallas Technorati has decided to not index vulnerable and exploited WordPress versions Will Apple bundle WordPress into the iPhone? I interview John Podzazides about Woopra I interview Mark Ghosh about Weblog Tools Videos WordPress Dev Donncha O Caoimh’s Theme Tester plugin AJAXed WordPress plugin Matt Mullenweg agrees [...]

  116. Tag Uncomplete 1.0

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:21 pm MDT

    This is a really simple WordPress plugin that only does one thing: disable the tag auto-complete feature in WordPress 2.5. The tag auto-complete feature is very nice, and I personally like it quite a bit. However, some of our clients have thousands of tags and were experiencing unacceptable slowdowns with this feature enabled. If you are [...]

  117. WordPress Tip: Reorder your Title Tag

    → Mark on WordPress | 23 Apr 2008 | 11:26 am MDT

    WordPress, by default, creates <title> tags that look like this: <title>Yoursite » Your Post Title</title>.  Many people want to use <title>Your Post Title » Yoursite</title> instead, to give more importance to the mutable part of the <title>.  There are plugins to do this, but I’d like to show you how a simple change in your [...]

  118. An Event Apart Discount

    → WordPress Development Blog | 22 Apr 2008 | 4:33 pm MDT

    An Event Apart is a web design and development conference which features some of the same fine folks who helped out with WordPress 2.5. (And many others.) I attended the one in Chicago a while back and was engaged the whole day in interesting talks on design, writing copy as interface, advanced CSS, and creativity [...]

  119. WordCamp UK 2008, and other things

    → westi on wordpress | 21 Apr 2008 | 2:37 pm MDT

    Firstly, apologies for the delays in getting out the first few WordPress 2.6 digest posts. They are coming real soon, once I get the time to write up all the good work that has been going on. Secondly, some good folks are in the process of organising the first WordCamp in the UK.  So far it [...]

  120. How do you edit a comment in WordPress 2.5?

    → Mark on WordPress | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:48 am MDT

    Are you having trouble figuring out how to edit comments from with in the WordPress 2.5 admin (or on WordPress.com since the admin upgrade) ? Here’s the secret: you have to click the name of the commenter or the name of the site that sent the TrackBack/Pingback. This sort of mirrors how post edit links [...]

  121. Club vs. Lojack solutions: the ever-changing Club

    → Mark on WordPress | 16 Apr 2008 | 2:05 pm MDT

    If  you haven’t yet read Mark Pilgrim’s “Club vs. Lojack Solutions” article from 2002, go catch up, then come back here. “Otto” on the wp-hackers mailing list brought up the tried and true “hidden form field” solution for comment spam, remarking on how well it worked for him.  It didn’t take long for people to point [...]

  122. Twitter Tools 1.2b1

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:12 pm MDT

    I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready (I think) for testing. This version adds a number of often requested features and other enhancements: Show a link to the tweet being replied to for @replies. Option to exclude @replies from the sidebar tweets list. Make all @usernames clickable. Check that the tweets downloaded are indeed the user’s tweets [...]

  123. Attachment Stats

    → Andy Skelton » WordPress | 12 Apr 2008 | 5:53 pm MDT

    WordPress 2.5 with its new uploader results in a lot more post attachments. Until now, the Stats plugin didn’t keep track of which attachments were viewed. Stats 1.2.1 contains a minor change that lets us show you which of your attachments are most popular. Remember, attachment views are only counted if you link to the attachment’s [...]

  124. Upgrade or else!

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 8 Apr 2008 | 10:48 am MDT

    UPDATE 2008-04-16: Well crud. I was just re-reading the WP 2.5 announcement post for something else, and spotted a bit about security updates between 2.3.3 and 2.5. So my previous advice about 2.3.3 being okay was incorrect. [...]



  125. Episode 39: WordPress 2.5 released - Live from WordCamp Dallas

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 6 Apr 2008 | 6:28 pm MDT

    I’d intended to release this episode during the week of March 30th, days after it was recorded live at WordCamp Dallas, but problems with the recorded audio prevented doing so. The audio you’ll hear was actually ripped from the video John Pozadzides released, so thanks, John! Joining me on the dais were Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism [...]

  126. Atlanta PHP

    → geek ramblings » WordPress | 2 Apr 2008 | 9:42 am MDT

    Tomorrow night, I will be attending the April Atlanta PHP meeting. My friend Glen Gordon will be giving a presentation titled, “I’m a PHP dev! Why should I care about Microsoft?”

    There are a host of technologies and tools from Microsoft that can add value to your PHP solutions, save you time, and are just plain cool. [...]



  127. WP Mobile Edition 2.1

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 30 Mar 2008 | 11:27 pm MDT

    I’ve updated my WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. I’ve made a couple of changes: Since many people don’t RTFM, I’ve added some code that (hopefully) only tries to show the mobile theme if everything is installed correctly. If it’s not installed correctly, it will show an error message accordingly in WP 2.5+. Experimental: a link to explicitly enter the [...]

  128. Shortcut Macros 1.2

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 30 Mar 2008 | 10:34 pm MDT

    I’ve updated my Shortcut Macros plugin to make it WordPress 2.5 compatible. This plugin allows you to set up shortcuts that expand into longer text when you save a post/page. For example, if you link to my site often, you might create a macro of ak. You type ##ak into a post/page and when you save [...]

  129. Delink Comment Author 1.2

    → alexking.org » WordPress | alexking.org | 30 Mar 2008 | 10:17 pm MDT

    I’ve updated Delink Comment Author to make it compatible with WordPress 2.5. It should also still be compatible with versions prior to 2.5. This plugin gives you the ability to remove the link a commenter left as their URL without removing the entire comment. A link to do this is added to your new comment e-mail [...]

  130. Happy 12th Birthday Bekki

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Happy Birthday Bekki! Wow! 12 already! Hope you have a great day. Lots of love Gramps, Nan, and Jamie xoxox

  131. WordPress 2.5 in detail

    → westi on wordpress | 29 Mar 2008 | 10:59 am MDT

    WordPress 2.5 has been released and includes a huge number of changes over the WordPress 2.3 series. Rather than list the changes in detail which would probably take me some days to write out I offer the following statistics and information about the WordPress 2.5 release: In development for 185 days (6 months 3 days [...]

  132. WordPress weekly digest 24th March to 29th March 2008

    → westi on wordpress | 29 Mar 2008 | 10:58 am MDT

    It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, this list look short as we have been doing the final polishing on today’s WordPress 2.5 release, the changes were: A fix to ensure that we preserve HTML entities in Custom Fields (#6374). Pretty permalinks for taxonomies (#6357). Changes to the login page redirect code to ensure that [...]

  133. WordPress 2.5

    → WordPress Development Blog | 29 Mar 2008 | 10:49 am MDT

    WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, [...]

  134. WordPress weekly digest 17th March to 23rd March 2008

    → westi on wordpress | 29 Mar 2008 | 9:03 am MDT

    It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, this list may look short but a lot of work was done on polishing the new admin UI, the changes were: Addition of avatar support to the default and classic themes ([7360], [7361]). Lots of title attributes to improve the accessibility of the Manage pages (#6082). Addition sanitization [...]

  135. WordPress weekly digest 10th March to 16th March 2008

    → westi on wordpress | 29 Mar 2008 | 5:42 am MDT

    It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes were: Addition of sanitization to get_link() and get_link_to_edit() (#6125). phpDoc with copyright and licensing info to external ftp libs (#6155). Improved self links for feeds (#5238). Introduction of a per-user admin colour scheme selector (#6167). Changes to move the restrict_manage_posts hook back inside the form (#6196). A new [...]

  136. Screencast and WordPress 2.5 RC2

    → WordPress Development Blog | 26 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am MDT

    2.5 is coming along thanks to the fantastic feedback you guys provided on RC1 (over 580 pingbacks and counting), and we’re now ready to show you a bit more of a peek with a short screencast covering the new dashboard and uploader and Release Candidate 2. First here’s the screencast, which is also available embedded [...]

  137. PayPerPost [Recommended Money Maker]

    → The Best for WordPress | 25 Mar 2008 | 5:14 pm MDT

    If you’re looking for ways to monetize your blog without hurting its core subject matter much than look no further than PayPerPost. PPP is, according to their website, a place where Advertisers create “Opportunities” for bloggers to write about their products, services and websites. They range from $5 to several thousands of dollars, depending on the [...]

  138. Shopzilla [Recommended Money Maker]

    → The Best for WordPress | 24 Mar 2008 | 1:43 pm MDT

    Shopzilla.com’s Publisher Program allows website publishers to earn money by displaying sponsored shopping content on their site. Publishers have access to a growing suite of tools to create and select contextually relevant shopping content to display on their sites, and will generate earnings from activity associated with the display of Shopzilla’s Sponsored Shopping Content. Click here [...]

  139. AzoogleAds [Recommended Money Maker]

    → The Best for WordPress | 22 Mar 2008 | 1:37 pm MDT

    AzoogleAds is one of the largest performance-based online advertising networks in the world. They also offer some of the best and highest paying affiliate deals in the industry. No matter what topic your blog covers, you can find a deal that matches your site. The payout range from $1 to over $100 per action. Click here [...]

  140. TTZ Media Network [Recommended Money Maker]

    → The Best for WordPress | 22 Mar 2008 | 1:26 pm MDT

    An ad network which was the brainchild of Blogging mogul John Chow, TTZ is ideal for technology and shopping related sites. Like AdSense, TTZ Media provides product based ads that are trigger by keywords. Unlike AdSense, however, the ads show products that are based on the keywords entered and a list of online stores where [...]

  141. Commission Junction [Recommended Money Maker]

    → The Best for WordPress | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:46 pm MDT

    Commission Junction is the largest affiliate network in north America, powering almost 50% of the top 500 web retailers affiliate marketing programs and operates worldwide. Commission Junction has over 1,500 customers including ING Direct, Buy.com, Home Depot, Circuit City, Experian and Yahoo!. Click here to sign up for Commission Junction. Make money from your Website or Blog [...]

  142. SimpleTags [Recommended Plugin]

    → The Best for WordPress | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:14 pm MDT

    SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. Unlike other Technorati plugins which require you to use custom fields within WordPress, the SimpleTags plugin lets you easily generate tags within your posts using the simple code: [tags] Download it here. Make money from your [...]

  143. Adsdaq [Recommended Money Maker]

    → The Best for WordPress | 20 Mar 2008 | 1:45 pm MDT

    Adsdaq is an advertising exchange operated by ContextWeb. It attracts inventory from various publishers, mostly non-branded and part of the “long-tail”. Their current advertisers are mainly advertising agencies. ADSDAQ is in its initial stages of development. Click here to sign up for Adsdaq. Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser

  144. WP-Cache [Recommended Plugin]

    → The Best for WordPress | 20 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm MDT

    WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. [...]

  145. SEO Book [Recommended Learning Tool]

    → The Best for WordPress | 19 Mar 2008 | 1:20 pm MDT

    The SEO Book is a leading SEO blog by Aaron Wall covering the search engine space. It offers a combination of marketing tips and search analysis in both blog and training style. The first version of SEO Book came out in December of 2003 but there have been more than 50 revisions since then. Sign up [...]

  146. Photo dropper [Recommended Plugin]

    → The Best for WordPress | 19 Mar 2008 | 1:10 pm MDT

    Photo Dropper is a Wordpress plugin that lets you add Flickr photos to your posts. It searches for Creative Commons licensed photos - images that are licensed for shared use - and lets you drop them into your posts - right from your dashboard with just 1 click. Download it here. Make money from your Website or [...]

  147. Episode 38: WordPress 2.5 not released… yet!

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 18 Mar 2008 | 5:28 pm MDT

    Included in this episode: WordPress 2.5 wasn’t released last week as we expected, and don’t expect it for several weeks. ThemeShaper.com asked 11 prominent WordPress theme designers to predict the future. WPThemeKit is a WordPress theming system where you choose from one of several htnk “blanks” representing your preferred layout of overall width, along with the number and [...]

  148. WordPress weekly digest 4th March to 9th March 2008

    → westi on wordpress | 16 Mar 2008 | 1:10 pm MDT

    This weeks digest post is only for 6 days as I seemed to have got my dates wrong on Friday when writing the last one and ended it on a Monday instead of a Sunday! It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, even though the list below looks short, the changes were: Abstraction [...]

  149. Codeigniter Library

    → Akismet Blog | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am MDT

    There is a new Code Igniter library for working with Akismet built by Elliot Haughin. Code Igniter is a new PHP framework by our friends at Ellis Labs, the makers of pMachine and Expression Engine.

  150. Episode 37: WordPress 2.5 quietly misses release date

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 12 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am MDT

    Oops! Jonathan and I recorded this assuming WordPress would be released March 10th, and then the day comes and goes without even a release candidate. Our bad… Otherwise, we discussed: Jonathan’s June speech at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK. Charles’ presentation of WordPress for Podcasters at the New Media Expo in Las [...]

  151. Happy 11th Birthday Megan

    → Mike Little's Journalized | 8 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm MST

    Hope it all goes swimmingly! Lots of love, Gramps, Nan and Jamie xoxoxox

  152. Episode 36: Jonathan Bailey on fighting plagiarism

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:01 pm MST

    In WordPress news this week: How should the Codex be licensed? Preparations for WordCamp Dallas continue, including the decision to serve Rudy’s BBQ for Saturday’s lunch. (Which should make Matt happy.) Lorelle reports on WordPress.com: WordPress 2.5 is coming to WordPress.com any day now, in whole or in pieces. Some of the new features can be found in Are [...]

  153. Cache with Versioned Tags

    → Andy Skelton » WordPress | 1 Mar 2008 | 7:00 pm MST

    A couple of years ago I had an idea: a tagged cache with versioned tags. It works just like an associative array but with an added hidden layer in the cache interface that salts the key with any tags provided and their version numbers. This facilitates classified mass extinctions by the simple act of incrementing [...]

  154. Using HTTP 1.1

    → Akismet Blog | 25 Feb 2008 | 12:35 pm MST

    If you’re using HTTP 1.1 in your Akismet client, or the one in PEAR, there’s a bug that could cause your client to timeout. The problem does not lie with Akismet servers, the problem lies in an incorrect implementation of HTTP/1.1 persistent connections in the Akismet class. The Akismet API servers support persistent connections for HTTP/1.1 [...]

  155. Episode 35: WordPress 2.5 begins testing, Interview with Lisa Sabin-Wilson

    → The WordPress Podcast » Podcast | 18 Feb 2008 | 7:18 am MST

    WordPress news for this week: WordPress 2.5 is now in feature freeze. No more new features will be added. Concentration will be on fixing bugs, polishing up the new admin design, and finishing off the new features that are already in. March 10th as the release date. There’s a new WordPress Development Blog, a bit different from [...]

  156. Austin WordPress users, mark your calendars!

    → Andy Skelton » WordPress | 12 Feb 2008 | 9:33 pm MST

    Today at the GeekAustin/Dorkbot happy hour I met up with LinearB who said that on the second third Tuesday in May GeekAustin would like to co-host a social event with WordPress. I know Austin has a lot of WordPress users and consultants that don’t typically come out for the social events so I’m putting the [...]

  157. Apology: Not Useless Code

    → Andy Skelton » WordPress | 11 Jan 2008 | 4:38 pm MST

    at the top of the main loop, have_posts() and is_404() are mutually exclusive. Useless Code in WordPress Themes That is true sometimes, but not always. More specifically, it can be false when a non-permalink URL seeks a non-existent post. For example, /?p=-1. Issue a 404 if a permalink request doesn’t match any posts. Don’t issue a 404 [...]

  158. Subkismet .NET

    → Akismet Blog | 5 Jan 2008 | 12:38 pm MST

    Subkismet 1.0 Released : Keyvan Nayyeri Subkismet is a framework to fight against spam in .NET web applications