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WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total):
\nIf you have already installed Beta 1 or Beta 2, you can update to Beta 3 via the Tools -> Update menu. If you have problems, or if this is your first time in the 2.7 beta ring, you can download and upgrade the old fashioned way.
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\nIf you have already installed Beta 1 or Beta 2, you can update to Beta 3 via the Tools -> Update menu. If you have problems, or if this is your first time in the 2.7 beta ring, you can download and upgrade the old fashioned way.
\n\n\";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"WordPress 2.7: Project Icon\";s:4:\"link\";s:67:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-project-icon/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:76:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-project-icon/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:13:10 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:22:\"User Interface2.7icons\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=419\";s:11:\"description\";s:316:\"Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:3398:\"Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the icon design assignment into a contest so that more people could participate and the community could have a vote in what the new icons should look like.
\nOnce we decided to go with a contest format instead of a single-designer gig, about half the original volunteers changed their minds. The remaining designers each submitted two icons (Posts, Links) in their proposed style. At this stage a couple of designers were thanked for their submissions but eliminated from the competition because their icons were considered too far afield from the WordPress visual style. The remaining designers were given feedback on the icons they had submitted and given about a week to complete the icon set for the menu as well as the list/excerpt icons that are shown on the Edit Posts screen. All but one of these designers finished a complete set, giving us five sets in total.
\nSo now we need to choose a direction. For each of the icon sets, we’ll show you the set itself, the designer’s introduction, and some feedback from the lead developers. After you’ve reviewed all five, place your vote for the set you think has the visual style that is the most suitable for WordPress 2.7. This will be followed by additional votes on specific icons, so if you like the specific image used in one set but like the style of another, you can vote to change the metaphor for a given icon. You’ll also be able to leave general feedback throughout the voting process. When voting has concluded, we’ll review the comments and the votes, and will declare a winner.
\nThings to bear in mind when making your selections:
\nA week is not a long time to create 13 icons. The winning set will undergo a revision to be refined, and some icons may be substituted. We asked for all icons in grayscale for the contest. An “on” state and a larger size for screen headers will be designed by the winner. It seemed like too much work to have everyone do multiple states for so many icons.
Ready? Go and take the icon survey. (The survey has now been closed.) Voting will remain open for 48 hours from the time of this post to allow people from all time zones a chance to participate before we close the survey and make a decision (since we’d like to include the new icons in Beta 3).
\nA Note Regarding the 2.7 Release Date:
\nAs we approach Beta 3, bug tickets continue to be added to Trac, the pain of making things look good in IE6 continues to be felt, and the need to improve accessibility looms. If you love WordPress, are a decent coder, and want to contribute like these icon designers contributed, please consider contributing a patch to help with one of these efforts. Jump right in on current Trac tickets, or pop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel to ask what to do.
Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the icon design assignment into a contest so that more people could participate and the community could have a vote in what the new icons should look like.
\nOnce we decided to go with a contest format instead of a single-designer gig, about half the original volunteers changed their minds. The remaining designers each submitted two icons (Posts, Links) in their proposed style. At this stage a couple of designers were thanked for their submissions but eliminated from the competition because their icons were considered too far afield from the WordPress visual style. The remaining designers were given feedback on the icons they had submitted and given about a week to complete the icon set for the menu as well as the list/excerpt icons that are shown on the Edit Posts screen. All but one of these designers finished a complete set, giving us five sets in total.
\nSo now we need to choose a direction. For each of the icon sets, we’ll show you the set itself, the designer’s introduction, and some feedback from the lead developers. After you’ve reviewed all five, place your vote for the set you think has the visual style that is the most suitable for WordPress 2.7. This will be followed by additional votes on specific icons, so if you like the specific image used in one set but like the style of another, you can vote to change the metaphor for a given icon. You’ll also be able to leave general feedback throughout the voting process. When voting has concluded, we’ll review the comments and the votes, and will declare a winner.
\nThings to bear in mind when making your selections:
\nA week is not a long time to create 13 icons. The winning set will undergo a revision to be refined, and some icons may be substituted. We asked for all icons in grayscale for the contest. An “on” state and a larger size for screen headers will be designed by the winner. It seemed like too much work to have everyone do multiple states for so many icons.
Ready? Go and take the icon survey. (The survey has now been closed.) Voting will remain open for 48 hours from the time of this post to allow people from all time zones a chance to participate before we close the survey and make a decision (since we’d like to include the new icons in Beta 3).
\nA Note Regarding the 2.7 Release Date:
\nAs we approach Beta 3, bug tickets continue to be added to Trac, the pain of making things look good in IE6 continues to be felt, and the need to improve accessibility looms. If you love WordPress, are a decent coder, and want to contribute like these icon designers contributed, please consider contributing a patch to help with one of these efforts. Jump right in on current Trac tickets, or pop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel to ask what to do.
WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.
\nIf you have already installed beta 1, you can update to beta 2 via the Tools -> Update menu. Beta 1 does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install Beta 2 manually if you experience problems.
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\nIf you have already installed beta 1, you can update to beta 2 via the Tools -> Update menu. Beta 1 does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install Beta 2 manually if you experience problems.
\n\n\";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:46:\"What?s your favorite thing about the 2.7 Beta?\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/whats-your-favorite-thing-about-the-27-beta/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:94:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/whats-your-favorite-thing-about-the-27-beta/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:09:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Features\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=396\";s:11:\"description\";s:317:\"There have been a lot of posts and twitter announcements by people checking out the WordPress 2.7 Beta since it was announced yesterday. What’s your favorite thing about 2.7 so far? Or if you haven’t made the leap yet, to which feature are you most looking forward? Tell us in the poll below. \n What [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1051:\"There have been a lot of posts and twitter announcements by people checking out the WordPress 2.7 Beta since it was announced yesterday. What’s your favorite thing about 2.7 so far? Or if you haven’t made the leap yet, to which feature are you most looking forward? Tell us in the poll below.
\n\nIf you have a extra minute or two, we’ve also put together a survey that lists all the new features and allows you to rate them, as well as give additional feedback if you’re so inclined. If you want to participate, take the 2.7 Beta Favorite Features survey.
\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:90:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/whats-your-favorite-thing-about-the-27-beta/feed/\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:317:\"There have been a lot of posts and twitter announcements by people checking out the WordPress 2.7 Beta since it was announced yesterday. What’s your favorite thing about 2.7 so far? Or if you haven’t made the leap yet, to which feature are you most looking forward? Tell us in the poll below. \n What [...]\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:1051:\"There have been a lot of posts and twitter announcements by people checking out the WordPress 2.7 Beta since it was announced yesterday. What’s your favorite thing about 2.7 so far? Or if you haven’t made the leap yet, to which feature are you most looking forward? Tell us in the poll below.
\n\nIf you have a extra minute or two, we’ve also put together a survey that lists all the new features and allows you to rate them, as well as give additional feedback if you’re so inclined. If you want to participate, take the 2.7 Beta Favorite Features survey.
\n\";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:20:\"WordPress 2.7 Beta 1\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:70:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:00:11 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=387\";s:11:\"description\";s:332:\"The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last. Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by downloading 2.7 Beta 1. As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren’t quite finished in [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1662:\"The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last. Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by downloading 2.7 Beta 1. As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren’t quite finished in Beta 1. There are also several glitches in certain browsers. Beta 1 provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari. Don’t worry, we are working on IE and Opera and will have those looking good in time for the final release.
\nSpeaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled. We are two weeks behind schedule at the moment. We need a little more time to finish the visual design, do a round of user testing against that finished design, and do a proper round of public beta testing. Our plan is to keep working as if Nov. 10 is still the release date. However, instead of releasing the final 2.7 on the 10th, we will make a release candidate available instead. The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use. After Nov. 10, the focus will be on fixing high impact bugs turned up by those of you testing the release candidate. I suspect 2.7 will be ready for final release by the end of November. A specific date will be set as we progress through the public beta cycle and get a feel for how solid the release is.
\n\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:66:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-1/feed/\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:332:\"The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last. Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by downloading 2.7 Beta 1. As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren’t quite finished in [...]\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:1662:\"The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last. Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by downloading 2.7 Beta 1. As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren’t quite finished in Beta 1. There are also several glitches in certain browsers. Beta 1 provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari. Don’t worry, we are working on IE and Opera and will have those looking good in time for the final release.
\nSpeaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled. We are two weeks behind schedule at the moment. We need a little more time to finish the visual design, do a round of user testing against that finished design, and do a proper round of public beta testing. Our plan is to keep working as if Nov. 10 is still the release date. However, instead of releasing the final 2.7 on the 10th, we will make a release candidate available instead. The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use. After Nov. 10, the focus will be on fixing high impact bugs turned up by those of you testing the release candidate. I suspect 2.7 will be ready for final release by the end of November. A specific date will be set as we progress through the public beta cycle and get a feel for how solid the release is.
\n\n\";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:8:\"Showcase\";s:4:\"link\";s:50:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/showcase/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:59:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/showcase/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:36:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Nick Momrik\";}s:8:\"category\";s:4:\"Meta\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=380\";s:11:\"description\";s:355:\"Today we launched the WordPress Showcase, a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot more than blog.\n\nPick your flavor and check out the possibilities available through WordPress MU, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and WordPress.org.\nSite screenshots are constantly updated, so what you see is a [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:960:\"Today we launched the WordPress Showcase, a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot more than blog.
\n
Pick your flavor and check out the possibilities available through WordPress MU, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and WordPress.org.
\nSite screenshots are constantly updated, so what you see is a realtime look at what’s going on with our hottest users.
\nDon’t see something there that should be? Suggest an addition! We’ll check it out and add it to the bunch if we think it makes the cut.
\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:55:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/showcase/feed/\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:355:\"Today we launched the WordPress Showcase, a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot more than blog.\n\nPick your flavor and check out the possibilities available through WordPress MU, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and WordPress.org.\nSite screenshots are constantly updated, so what you see is a [...]\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:960:\"Today we launched the WordPress Showcase, a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot more than blog.
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Pick your flavor and check out the possibilities available through WordPress MU, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and WordPress.org.
\nSite screenshots are constantly updated, so what you see is a realtime look at what’s going on with our hottest users.
\nDon’t see something there that should be? Suggest an addition! We’ll check it out and add it to the bunch if we think it makes the cut.
\n\";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:44:\"Usability Testing Report: 2.5 and Crazyhorse\";s:4:\"link\";s:84:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/usability-testing-report-25-and-crazyhorse/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:93:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/usability-testing-report-25-and-crazyhorse/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:06:33 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:43:\"User Interface2.5crazyhorsetestingusability\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=375\";s:11:\"description\";s:327:\"A question I hear pretty frequently is, “Why a redesign of the admin panel so soon after 2.5?” Those who have attended WordCamps in the past few months have already heard the answer, but for the people who haven’t had that opportunity, this post is for you. \nWhen the community response to the 2.5 admin [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:4403:\"A question I hear pretty frequently is, “Why a redesign of the admin panel so soon after 2.5?” Those who have attended WordCamps in the past few months have already heard the answer, but for the people who haven’t had that opportunity, this post is for you.
\nWhen the community response to the 2.5 admin redesign was mixed, it seemed like a good idea to do usability testing to find out which issues were based on actual interface problems vs. which complaints were just a result of not liking change. To prevent bias, a third party was contracted to conduct usability testing, Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, Insight and Research division. Try saying that three times fast with a mouth full of peanut butter. Or fitting it on a business card. To save time, we’ll just call that third party CMD, since that’s what they call themselves.
\nThe plan that was developed involved multiple rounds of testing, as well as the creation of two prototypes, hardcore! The first phase involved a usability review of 2.5 by CMD, the results of which were discussed with lead developers. A quick prototype was created that addressed some of the lightweight issues, so that the test participants could use both 2.5 on their own blogs and the prototype on a test site. Results would be analyzed and compared, leading to a second round of suggestions. A second prototype would be developed over a week or two, which would then be tested with the same participants, and a final report delivered. But you know what they say… the best laid plans of designers and developers often go awry.
\nAfter the first round of testing, it was clear that a prototype delivering the kind of fixes that could be coded in a week or two wouldn’t make much of a difference overall. We all decided a more ambitious prototype was in order, one that would experiment with a new approach to screen real estate and attempt to address as many of the issues from 2.5 as was possible with a few extra weeks of time. A rapid design process was followed by an even more rapid development cycle. The second prototype is what you know as Crazyhorse.
\nThe second round of testing blew everyone away. The research team had never seen such consistent results. Tasks were completed faster, participant opinions rated it higher, understanding of how interface elements worked was greater, and it wasn’t even a fully functional application. Of the test participants, every single one said they would choose the prototype over their current administrative interface, and it wasn’t even pretty (those of you who remember the original Crazyhorse will vouch for this).
\nA presentation on the process from start to finish was part of the schedule at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and the slides are available online, but as always the slides only tell you so much without the videos, live demo and verbal narration that went with it. (Use Google and you can see audience videos of the presentation.)
\nHere, then, is a PDF of reasonable size that you can download and peruse at your leisure that outlines the usability testing project in some detail. I wanted to include some eye tracking videos, but the file was so huge it would have been ridiculous for anyone to download it, so I stuck with eye tracking outputs called gaze trails to illustrate the findings. I also tried to pare down the text to the more salient points, since more than 50 hours of test video really does reveal an insane amount of data. I also cut out the section about designing Crazyhorse in the interest of staying under 25 pages. Hopefully you’ll think it’s a good balance. I’ll try to put together a separate document on the design process of 2.7 in a couple of weeks that will include the early Crazyhorse material.
\nSo, if you want to know what we learned from the usability testing this summer that caused us to create what is now 2.7, go ahead and read the report.
\nWordPress 2.5/Crazyhorse Usability Testing Report (PDF)
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\nWhen the community response to the 2.5 admin redesign was mixed, it seemed like a good idea to do usability testing to find out which issues were based on actual interface problems vs. which complaints were just a result of not liking change. To prevent bias, a third party was contracted to conduct usability testing, Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, Insight and Research division. Try saying that three times fast with a mouth full of peanut butter. Or fitting it on a business card. To save time, we’ll just call that third party CMD, since that’s what they call themselves.
\nThe plan that was developed involved multiple rounds of testing, as well as the creation of two prototypes, hardcore! The first phase involved a usability review of 2.5 by CMD, the results of which were discussed with lead developers. A quick prototype was created that addressed some of the lightweight issues, so that the test participants could use both 2.5 on their own blogs and the prototype on a test site. Results would be analyzed and compared, leading to a second round of suggestions. A second prototype would be developed over a week or two, which would then be tested with the same participants, and a final report delivered. But you know what they say… the best laid plans of designers and developers often go awry.
\nAfter the first round of testing, it was clear that a prototype delivering the kind of fixes that could be coded in a week or two wouldn’t make much of a difference overall. We all decided a more ambitious prototype was in order, one that would experiment with a new approach to screen real estate and attempt to address as many of the issues from 2.5 as was possible with a few extra weeks of time. A rapid design process was followed by an even more rapid development cycle. The second prototype is what you know as Crazyhorse.
\nThe second round of testing blew everyone away. The research team had never seen such consistent results. Tasks were completed faster, participant opinions rated it higher, understanding of how interface elements worked was greater, and it wasn’t even a fully functional application. Of the test participants, every single one said they would choose the prototype over their current administrative interface, and it wasn’t even pretty (those of you who remember the original Crazyhorse will vouch for this).
\nA presentation on the process from start to finish was part of the schedule at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and the slides are available online, but as always the slides only tell you so much without the videos, live demo and verbal narration that went with it. (Use Google and you can see audience videos of the presentation.)
\nHere, then, is a PDF of reasonable size that you can download and peruse at your leisure that outlines the usability testing project in some detail. I wanted to include some eye tracking videos, but the file was so huge it would have been ridiculous for anyone to download it, so I stuck with eye tracking outputs called gaze trails to illustrate the findings. I also tried to pare down the text to the more salient points, since more than 50 hours of test video really does reveal an insane amount of data. I also cut out the section about designing Crazyhorse in the interest of staying under 25 pages. Hopefully you’ll think it’s a good balance. I’ll try to put together a separate document on the design process of 2.7 in a couple of weeks that will include the early Crazyhorse material.
\nSo, if you want to know what we learned from the usability testing this summer that caused us to create what is now 2.7, go ahead and read the report.
\nWordPress 2.5/Crazyhorse Usability Testing Report (PDF)
\n\";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Calling All WordPress-loving Icon Designers\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/calling-all-wordpress-loving-icon-designers/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:94:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/calling-all-wordpress-loving-icon-designers/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:33:04 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:28:\"User Interface2.7designicons\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=362\";s:11:\"description\";s:323:\"Have you seen the getting-prettier-all-the-time menus in 2.7-almost-beta? They really are. Getting prettier all the time, I mean. Once we drop in the fonts and do a little brushing up of edges and colors, the menu system is going to be smooth. The last thing we’ll need to do to is replace the icons we’ve [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:2939:\"![\"\"](\"http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/menu_102408a.gif\" "\\"2.7")
Have you seen the getting-prettier-all-the-time menus in 2.7-almost-beta? They really are. Getting prettier all the time, I mean. Once we drop in the fonts and do a little brushing up of edges and colors, the menu system is going to be smooth. The last thing we’ll need to do to is replace the icons we’ve been using as placeholders. Currently, the menus are using icons from Crystal Project, which is perfect because they’re released under LGPL (yay for open source!), but less perfect in that they don’t quite fit with the new visual style of 2.7, so we’re thinking custom icons.
I’m always meeting people at WordCamps or via email who say they wish they could give back to WordPress, but that since they aren’t PHP developers, they feel like there isn’t any opportunity for them to be a part of the open source project. Well, here’s a golden opportunity. Want to design the new WordPress icons?
\nThe icons:
\nWe’ll need icons for each of the main navigation sections, plus a matching pair of list/excerpt view icons for the table screens like Edit Posts. That’s a total of 13, and for the navigation icons we’ll also need a larger size for use in the screen headers. Some of the sections have natural iconography, while others may be more challenging. The sections are: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Appearance, Settings, Users, Plugins, Tools.
The style:
\nIcons should be subtle, with a classic/designed look, nothing cartoonish. Thin lines. Maybe a little old-fashioned looking. They’ll be grayscale by default, possibly with a color version for active menu items.
The timing:
\nFast, fast, fast. 2.7 is due to release on November 10. That means icons need to be ready within two weeks, give or take.
The required experience:
\nTo be taken seriously, you’ll need to show a background in icon design. It’s a different skill than web site or application design, and given that there’s not much time before the 2.7 launch, someone with experience (and possibly existing work they can leverage) is going to be the best candidate.
Interested? Send us an email and tell us why you want to design the icons, and include a link to your portfolio. How we wind up choosing an icon designer will depend on how many people respond, but we’ll keep you posted on the process. For now, send in portfolio links by Saturday night, October 25, 2008. We’ll review them over the weekend and get in touch with people on Monday. Hopefully we can be designing by early next week.
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I’m always meeting people at WordCamps or via email who say they wish they could give back to WordPress, but that since they aren’t PHP developers, they feel like there isn’t any opportunity for them to be a part of the open source project. Well, here’s a golden opportunity. Want to design the new WordPress icons?
\nThe icons:
\nWe’ll need icons for each of the main navigation sections, plus a matching pair of list/excerpt view icons for the table screens like Edit Posts. That’s a total of 13, and for the navigation icons we’ll also need a larger size for use in the screen headers. Some of the sections have natural iconography, while others may be more challenging. The sections are: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Appearance, Settings, Users, Plugins, Tools.
The style:
\nIcons should be subtle, with a classic/designed look, nothing cartoonish. Thin lines. Maybe a little old-fashioned looking. They’ll be grayscale by default, possibly with a color version for active menu items.
The timing:
\nFast, fast, fast. 2.7 is due to release on November 10. That means icons need to be ready within two weeks, give or take.
The required experience:
\nTo be taken seriously, you’ll need to show a background in icon design. It’s a different skill than web site or application design, and given that there’s not much time before the 2.7 launch, someone with experience (and possibly existing work they can leverage) is going to be the best candidate.
Interested? Send us an email and tell us why you want to design the icons, and include a link to your portfolio. How we wind up choosing an icon designer will depend on how many people respond, but we’ll keep you posted on the process. For now, send in portfolio links by Saturday night, October 25, 2008. We’ll review them over the weekend and get in touch with people on Monday. Hopefully we can be designing by early next week.
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\n\n\";}i:9;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:21:\"The New 2.7 Dashboard\";s:4:\"link\";s:62:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/the-new-27-dashboard/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:71:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/the-new-27-dashboard/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:09:35 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Jane Wells\";}s:8:\"category\";s:42:\"User Interface2.7dashboarddesignquickpress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=349\";s:11:\"description\";s:335:\"First, I’d like to say that I’m glad the majority response to the screenshots we posted last week was so positive. With a community as vocal as this one, it’s always a little nerve-wracking to introduce change, but this time it seems like the change was welcomed, which has been great. I’m hopeful that as [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:8846:\"First, I’d like to say that I’m glad the majority response to the screenshots we posted last week was so positive. With a community as vocal as this one, it’s always a little nerve-wracking to introduce change, but this time it seems like the change was welcomed, which has been great. I’m hopeful that as we introduce the new features of 2.7 over the coming weeks, the good feelings will continue. As promised, here’s a rundown of what’s going to happen to the Dashboard over the next couple of weeks before launch.
\nMenus
\nI described the menu functions last week, but I forgot to mention something. By default, when you arrive at your Dashboard the first time, two sections of the navigation will be expanded: the Dashboard section (because it is active, so it will have the color highlight) and the Posts section (because it has often-accessed screens in it, and will serve as a cue that you can view other section menus without loading new screens). Once you start clicking menus open and closed, your browser will cookie you, and will remember your menu state. So if you open Posts and Comments, when you come back the next time, Posts and Comments will be open. If you click into your Settings, Posts and Comments will still be open. You’ll need to manually close nav sections. We went back and forth on this, and there was community discussion about perhaps only allowing two sections to be open at a time, but ultimately those approaches would have removed control from the user. And since the mantra of 2.7 is to give the user control over his/her admin interface, we chose to keeps things open if the user had opened them.
Contextual Access Tabs
\nIn the upper right, drop-tabs provide access to contextual features displayed in a layer that appears between the header and the main working area. Screen Options will allow you to choose which modules to display on the current screen. Don’t like seeing the Incoming Links module because no one links to you? A simple checkbox in the Options tab will remove the module from your Dashboard until you decide to reinstate it. Help will highlight some of the changes since the previous version, and provide links to help resources such as FAQ/Forums/Contact Support for .com and Documentation/Support Forums for .org.
Module Layout
\nIn addition to using the Options tab to decide which modules to display on the Dashboard, all the modules on the Dashboard may be moved up or down or between columns using drag and drop. Modules also may be collapsed or expanded by clicking the title bar, allowing another level of screen customization. In 2.8, we also hope to make every single module configurable in terms of what content it displays… we ran out of time for this in 2.7, so for now only the newsfeed modules will be configurable. When you hover over the module, a link will appear in the module header allowing access to the configuration view.
Right Now
\nThe Right Now module contains the same data as before, but it’s been rearranged to provide a clearer display. This list style, as opposed to the previous sentence style, will also make translation for non-English sites easier. Color cues help to highlight things that are not good (red), things that are pending (yellow/orange), and things that are good to go (green).
Stats
\nI’d like to apologize for having a non-core piece of functionality on the Dashboard comp. It’s my fault… when we were working on the comps, we used my wireframes and my live 2.7 Dashboard to assemble our elements, and I forgot that I had the WordPress.com stats plugin installed and a module on my Dashboard. So even though it’s not in core and it turns out the WordPress.com stats plugin is undergoing some reworking of its own, we made the Dashboard stats module easier to scan than the one I currently see when I log in. For those of you on .org who got excited when you saw the Dashboard comp with stats, again, I apologize for the oversight on my part. If you want the candy-like stats goodness we comped up you’d need to install the plugin (or another stats plugin with candy-like elements). There should be a fine-looking Dashboard module as part of the update they release.
QuickPress
\nQuickPress is a new feature that provides the ability to start (or publish) a simple post from the Dashboard when you don’t need the full feature set of the Add New Post screen. Currently, these posts can contain title, text, media and tags. In 2.8 we hope to make the module configurable, so that each user can decide which few fields make the most sense to display. If you Save as Draft, you will see the new draft appear in the Recent Drafts module right away. Clicking Cancel will clear the form. Publish publishes the post. Posts made using QuickPress are the same as other posts and may be editing by going to Posts > Edit and selecting the post in question. One last thing: both in this module and on the Add New post screen, we’ve put as much space as possible between the Save Draft and Publish buttons, so for all of you who’ve asked at WordCamps or emailed or posted somewhere to request this, ta da! Hopefully this will reduce accidental publications.
Recent Drafts
\nDuring the summer testing, one thing we heard over and over was the desire to access recent drafts more easily, preferably with one click from the Dashboard (as opposed to clicking on Drafts from the Right Now module, waiting for page to load, then clicking on a specific draft title and waiting for a second page load). The Recent Drafts module is meant to address that need, displaying the five most recent drafts with the date they were created. In a future version, this module will be configurable as well. In the meantime, if you’re a crosswords-in-pen kind of person and you don’t write drafts, just use the Options tab at the top to hide the Drafts module, and it won’t take up space on your Dashboard.
Feeds
\nNews feeds of WordPress-related news will function largely the same as they did in 2.6 in terms of configurability, and will simply have a new look. You can still specify the URL of the feed, how many items to display, whether to show headline vs excerpt, author, date, etc.
Incoming Links
\nJust getting a face lift. Or maybe not a face lift, more like a visit to the Clinique counter.
Hooks
\nPlugins can still add modules to the Dashboard. They also still can add top-level menu items if necessary (as opposed to having them in Tools, Plugins, Settings or wherever…like Posts if it’s post-specific). Because we’ll be using iconography in the collapsed menu state, plugins that create top-level menus can create an icon for use in the menu system. When there’s no icon associated with the plugin, a default will be used (kind of the way some blogs show default avatars when no Gravatar is associated with a commenter on your blog). Hopefully, though, most plugins will fit within existing section headers, since our “top level” is not actually made up of menu items, but section headers that open to reveal the real menu items that have screens associated with them. Plugins can also put themselves into the Shortcuts/Favorites menu in the header.
Recent Comments
\nThis module, as in 2.6, displays the most recent comments. However, you now can moderate comments directly from this Dashboard module, including the new Comment Reply feature. For now it will show only the last x number of comments, as it does currently, though in 2.8 we hope to add more configurability to this, or roll it into the Inbox concept.
Bye-Bye Inbox
\nFor those who were at WordCamp SF or who were using the nightly builds while there was still an Inbox placeholder, sorry, no Inbox in 2.7. It turned out to be far more complex than anticipated, and rather than including something rushed and clunky, we’re holding off until a later version. We added the comment moderation to the Comments module to make up for it, so you don’t have to wait for that, at least.
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\nMenus
\nI described the menu functions last week, but I forgot to mention something. By default, when you arrive at your Dashboard the first time, two sections of the navigation will be expanded: the Dashboard section (because it is active, so it will have the color highlight) and the Posts section (because it has often-accessed screens in it, and will serve as a cue that you can view other section menus without loading new screens). Once you start clicking menus open and closed, your browser will cookie you, and will remember your menu state. So if you open Posts and Comments, when you come back the next time, Posts and Comments will be open. If you click into your Settings, Posts and Comments will still be open. You’ll need to manually close nav sections. We went back and forth on this, and there was community discussion about perhaps only allowing two sections to be open at a time, but ultimately those approaches would have removed control from the user. And since the mantra of 2.7 is to give the user control over his/her admin interface, we chose to keeps things open if the user had opened them.
Contextual Access Tabs
\nIn the upper right, drop-tabs provide access to contextual features displayed in a layer that appears between the header and the main working area. Screen Options will allow you to choose which modules to display on the current screen. Don’t like seeing the Incoming Links module because no one links to you? A simple checkbox in the Options tab will remove the module from your Dashboard until you decide to reinstate it. Help will highlight some of the changes since the previous version, and provide links to help resources such as FAQ/Forums/Contact Support for .com and Documentation/Support Forums for .org.
Module Layout
\nIn addition to using the Options tab to decide which modules to display on the Dashboard, all the modules on the Dashboard may be moved up or down or between columns using drag and drop. Modules also may be collapsed or expanded by clicking the title bar, allowing another level of screen customization. In 2.8, we also hope to make every single module configurable in terms of what content it displays… we ran out of time for this in 2.7, so for now only the newsfeed modules will be configurable. When you hover over the module, a link will appear in the module header allowing access to the configuration view.
Right Now
\nThe Right Now module contains the same data as before, but it’s been rearranged to provide a clearer display. This list style, as opposed to the previous sentence style, will also make translation for non-English sites easier. Color cues help to highlight things that are not good (red), things that are pending (yellow/orange), and things that are good to go (green).
Stats
\nI’d like to apologize for having a non-core piece of functionality on the Dashboard comp. It’s my fault… when we were working on the comps, we used my wireframes and my live 2.7 Dashboard to assemble our elements, and I forgot that I had the WordPress.com stats plugin installed and a module on my Dashboard. So even though it’s not in core and it turns out the WordPress.com stats plugin is undergoing some reworking of its own, we made the Dashboard stats module easier to scan than the one I currently see when I log in. For those of you on .org who got excited when you saw the Dashboard comp with stats, again, I apologize for the oversight on my part. If you want the candy-like stats goodness we comped up you’d need to install the plugin (or another stats plugin with candy-like elements). There should be a fine-looking Dashboard module as part of the update they release.
QuickPress
\nQuickPress is a new feature that provides the ability to start (or publish) a simple post from the Dashboard when you don’t need the full feature set of the Add New Post screen. Currently, these posts can contain title, text, media and tags. In 2.8 we hope to make the module configurable, so that each user can decide which few fields make the most sense to display. If you Save as Draft, you will see the new draft appear in the Recent Drafts module right away. Clicking Cancel will clear the form. Publish publishes the post. Posts made using QuickPress are the same as other posts and may be editing by going to Posts > Edit and selecting the post in question. One last thing: both in this module and on the Add New post screen, we’ve put as much space as possible between the Save Draft and Publish buttons, so for all of you who’ve asked at WordCamps or emailed or posted somewhere to request this, ta da! Hopefully this will reduce accidental publications.
Recent Drafts
\nDuring the summer testing, one thing we heard over and over was the desire to access recent drafts more easily, preferably with one click from the Dashboard (as opposed to clicking on Drafts from the Right Now module, waiting for page to load, then clicking on a specific draft title and waiting for a second page load). The Recent Drafts module is meant to address that need, displaying the five most recent drafts with the date they were created. In a future version, this module will be configurable as well. In the meantime, if you’re a crosswords-in-pen kind of person and you don’t write drafts, just use the Options tab at the top to hide the Drafts module, and it won’t take up space on your Dashboard.
Feeds
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Incoming Links
\nJust getting a face lift. Or maybe not a face lift, more like a visit to the Clinique counter.
Hooks
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Bye-Bye Inbox
\nFor those who were at WordCamp SF or who were using the nightly builds while there was still an Inbox placeholder, sorry, no Inbox in 2.7. It turned out to be far more complex than anticipated, and rather than including something rushed and clunky, we’re holding off until a later version. We added the comment moderation to the Comments module to make up for it, so you don’t have to wait for that, at least.
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\nIt was important to get the 1.5 version of Twitter Tools released because the 1.5 betas had a bug that was causing Twitter Tools to behave badly. Apparently that haste has resulted in the digest features being released before they were fully baked.
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\nA nice roundup of photoblogging themes and plugins available for WordPress was published by WPCandy. Many of the links are collections themselves. Definitely worth a looksee if you are looking for a nice photoblog.
\nNathan Rice posted a Definitive guide to Sticky posts in WordPress 2.7 complete with screenshots, style suggestions, code examples and custom loop suggestions. He even outlines a method to ignore stickies completely.
\nIntense Debate, recently acquired by Automattic, is back with a stronger product and a much more integerated and user friendly WordPress plugin that makes the task of switching back and forth from ID easier and less painful. Let us know if you switched and how it went. Thanks to RWW and a bunch of other sources.
\nTo round off this news round up, we have 8 Common Sense Tips for Writing Clean WordPress Blog Posts. Lots of well illustrated tips on cleaning up your blog posts and making them more presentable for both humans and machines. I think this would be one of those must have bookmarks for people just starting off in blogging with WordPress.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:20:45 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2400:\"Help test the new version of WordPress for iPhone using the iPhone simulator by downloading the latest 1.2beta1 code from the WordPress trac. Details about the features of the new version and the download links are available from the WordPress for iPhone blog. Thank TUAW and The Blog Herald.
\nA nice roundup of photoblogging themes and plugins available for WordPress was published by WPCandy. Many of the links are collections themselves. Definitely worth a looksee if you are looking for a nice photoblog.
\nNathan Rice posted a Definitive guide to Sticky posts in WordPress 2.7 complete with screenshots, style suggestions, code examples and custom loop suggestions. He even outlines a method to ignore stickies completely.
\nIntense Debate, recently acquired by Automattic, is back with a stronger product and a much more integerated and user friendly WordPress plugin that makes the task of switching back and forth from ID easier and less painful. Let us know if you switched and how it went. Thanks to RWW and a bunch of other sources.
\nTo round off this news round up, we have 8 Common Sense Tips for Writing Clean WordPress Blog Posts. Lots of well illustrated tips on cleaning up your blog posts and making them more presentable for both humans and machines. I think this would be one of those must have bookmarks for people just starting off in blogging with WordPress.
\";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:65:\"Mark Jaquith: Slides from WordPress keynote at WordCamp Charlotte\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=209\";s:4:\"link\";s:96:\"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/slides-from-wordpress-keynote-at-wordcamp-charlotte/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1356:\"\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:11:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Mark Jaquith\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1356:\"\";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 3\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=437\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-3/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1719:\"WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total):
\nIf you have already installed Beta 1 or Beta 2, you can update to Beta 3 via the Tools -> Update menu. If you have problems, or if this is your first time in the 2.7 beta ring, you can download and upgrade the old fashioned way.
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:43:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Mark Jaquith\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1719:\"WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total):
\nIf you have already installed Beta 1 or Beta 2, you can update to Beta 3 via the Tools -> Update menu. If you have problems, or if this is your first time in the 2.7 beta ring, you can download and upgrade the old fashioned way.
\n\";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Matt: NYTimes Sleep\";s:4:\"guid\";s:35:\"http://ma.tt/2008/11/nytimes-sleep/\";s:4:\"link\";s:35:\"http://ma.tt/2008/11/nytimes-sleep/\";s:11:\"description\";s:135:\"NY Times on the importance of sleep.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:29:26 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:135:\"NY Times on the importance of sleep.
\";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress - An Icon Of Its Time\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4574\";s:4:\"link\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/15/wordpress-an-icon-of-its-time/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4683:\"![](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png\")
Keith, Andrew, Mark and I discussed the news of the week. With guest contributions to the show, we went in-depth on a number of topics including the icon survey and much more. Don’t forget to tune in to hear our plugin picks of the week. Come back next week for more action packed WordPress discussions!
WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact me at wpweekly at gmail dot com..
\nCool Way To Display Archived Posts
\nWe encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then tune in and see if your comment made it on the air! To send us feedback via email, conect us at wpweekly at gmail dot com. In this weeks episode, we covered a comment that was submitted to the blog on a previous episode. We also answer a listener question regarding how to let visitors submit stories to a website without being a registered user.
\nJeff - WP Advanced Code Editor – Integrates the EasyArea advanced code editor into WordPress. This adds real time syntax highlighting, line numbering, full screen editing, and more to the code editor to the “Add New Post” and “Add New Page” screens. After installation, make sure that the WYSIWYG editor is disabled. WP Advanced Code Editor is not compatible with the WYSIWYG editor. The entire syntax code editor (called EasyArea) was written entirely by Christophe Dolivet.
\nKeith - Ultimage Google Analytics - Automatically enables the use of GoogleAnalytics’ urchin tracking technology to pull together web stats
\nJob published on November 12th 2008. The job description is as follows:
\nHello, My name is Dave and I write a pop culture blog called NineDaves.com, out of the NYC area (Flatiron District). My server is Yahoo, and I’ve been with WordPress since I started the blog in July 2008. Since then, I’ve had the same WordPress version. I’m interested in upgrading to a more current version, but I’m nervous. Despite the fact that WordPRess offers detailed “how to’s,” I’m still worried that I don’t understand things properly. Rather than have someone just do it for me, I would like a WordPress expert to teach me to fish.
\nSo - would you be interested in showing me how to upgrade my WordPress before I mess something up and lose all my work? I’d prefer someone to meet me in person and show me how to do it, so if you live in the NYC area, that’s perfect! If not, I can set up a WebEx and phone call.
\nVisit the job posting for contact information.
\nNext Episode: Friday November 21st, 2008 8P.M. EST
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode: 1 Hour 23 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode29.mp3
\nListen To Episode #29:
\n
Keith, Andrew, Mark and I discussed the news of the week. With guest contributions to the show, we went in-depth on a number of topics including the icon survey and much more. Don’t forget to tune in to hear our plugin picks of the week. Come back next week for more action packed WordPress discussions!
WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact me at wpweekly at gmail dot com..
\nCool Way To Display Archived Posts
\nWe encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then tune in and see if your comment made it on the air! To send us feedback via email, conect us at wpweekly at gmail dot com. In this weeks episode, we covered a comment that was submitted to the blog on a previous episode. We also answer a listener question regarding how to let visitors submit stories to a website without being a registered user.
\nJeff - WP Advanced Code Editor – Integrates the EasyArea advanced code editor into WordPress. This adds real time syntax highlighting, line numbering, full screen editing, and more to the code editor to the “Add New Post” and “Add New Page” screens. After installation, make sure that the WYSIWYG editor is disabled. WP Advanced Code Editor is not compatible with the WYSIWYG editor. The entire syntax code editor (called EasyArea) was written entirely by Christophe Dolivet.
\nKeith - Ultimage Google Analytics - Automatically enables the use of GoogleAnalytics’ urchin tracking technology to pull together web stats
\nJob published on November 12th 2008. The job description is as follows:
\nHello, My name is Dave and I write a pop culture blog called NineDaves.com, out of the NYC area (Flatiron District). My server is Yahoo, and I’ve been with WordPress since I started the blog in July 2008. Since then, I’ve had the same WordPress version. I’m interested in upgrading to a more current version, but I’m nervous. Despite the fact that WordPRess offers detailed “how to’s,” I’m still worried that I don’t understand things properly. Rather than have someone just do it for me, I would like a WordPress expert to teach me to fish.
\nSo - would you be interested in showing me how to upgrade my WordPress before I mess something up and lose all my work? I’d prefer someone to meet me in person and show me how to do it, so if you live in the NYC area, that’s perfect! If not, I can set up a WebEx and phone call.
\nVisit the job posting for contact information.
\nNext Episode: Friday November 21st, 2008 8P.M. EST
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode: 1 Hour 23 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode29.mp3
\nListen To Episode #29:
\n
This fellow caught the WP download counter passing 3 million last night. Cool! That’s total downloads of the 2.6 series, we reset it every time we do a major X.X release.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:56:50 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:288:\"This fellow caught the WP download counter passing 3 million last night. Cool! That’s total downloads of the 2.6 series, we reset it every time we do a major X.X release.
\";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/14\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4572\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/14/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1114/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1467:\"\n![\"BlackMagic\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/blackmagic.jpg\" "\\"BlackMagic\\"")
The theme has 2 columns and is based on grungy wooden textures and has a cool top menu which includes RSS. The psd source file of the logo has also been included in the package.
\n\n![\"journalized-theme-2_7\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/journalizedtheme2-7.png\" "\\"journalized-theme-2_7\\"")
Three column theme with six built-in skins, administration interface with support for widgets, tags and gravatars and custom header.
\n\n![\"PurpleProse\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/purpleprose.jpg\" "\\"PurpleProse\\"")
Includes three themes Purple Prose [Demo], Evening Stars [Demo] and Paper Trail [Demo].
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:30:06 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1467:\"\n
The theme has 2 columns and is based on grungy wooden textures and has a cool top menu which includes RSS. The psd source file of the logo has also been included in the package.
\n\n
Three column theme with six built-in skins, administration interface with support for widgets, tags and gravatars and custom header.
\n\n
Includes three themes Purple Prose [Demo], Evening Stars [Demo] and Paper Trail [Demo].
\";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Click And Drag In Plain English\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4565\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/14/click-and-drag-in-plain-english/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1086:\"John Kolbert of Techlyzer has produced a great screencast explaining how to create the collapsible and movable option boxes within the WordPress 2.7 write new page/post screens. The tutorial starts off by creating a dummy plugin which you then add functions to which give it the draggable/collapsible options within the Administration panel. John provides a sample plugin to use as well as a link to the article on the Codex that explains the add_meta_box function.
\nThis tutorial is mainly for those aspiring plugin authors as well as for those who would like to add this type of functionality to their own plugin. John should rename this video to add_meta_boxes explained in plain English because even I understood and learned a thing or two. Final though is that I would absolutely love to see more screencasts like these in the future and have them embedded into their respective Codex articles. How cool would that be?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:47:17 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1086:\"John Kolbert of Techlyzer has produced a great screencast explaining how to create the collapsible and movable option boxes within the WordPress 2.7 write new page/post screens. The tutorial starts off by creating a dummy plugin which you then add functions to which give it the draggable/collapsible options within the Administration panel. John provides a sample plugin to use as well as a link to the article on the Codex that explains the add_meta_box function.
\nThis tutorial is mainly for those aspiring plugin authors as well as for those who would like to add this type of functionality to their own plugin. John should rename this video to add_meta_boxes explained in plain English because even I understood and learned a thing or two. Final though is that I would absolutely love to see more screencasts like these in the future and have them embedded into their respective Codex articles. How cool would that be?
\";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Alex King: Twitter Tools 1.5.1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:53:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/11/13/twitter-tools-151\";s:4:\"link\";s:53:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/11/13/twitter-tools-151\";s:11:\"description\";s:2205:\"I’m pushing out another new version of Twitter Tools to address some problems people are having. This version has only three changes from yesterday’s release:
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autocomplete=\"off\" to the username and password fields on the Settings page.If you aren’t having problems with 1.5, no need to upgrade. If you are having trouble, this version might help.
\nThe download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
\nIf you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and e-mail me a link to the thread.
\n\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:53:14 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2205:\"I’m pushing out another new version of Twitter Tools to address some problems people are having. This version has only three changes from yesterday’s release:
\nautocomplete=\"off\" to the username and password fields on the Settings page.If you aren’t having problems with 1.5, no need to upgrade. If you are having trouble, this version might help.
\nThe download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
\nIf you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and e-mail me a link to the thread.
\n\n \";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Matt: IntenseDebate Reopens\";s:4:\"guid\";s:43:\"http://ma.tt/2008/11/intensedebate-reopens/\";s:4:\"link\";s:43:\"http://ma.tt/2008/11/intensedebate-reopens/\";s:11:\"description\";s:355:\"IntenseDebate is back open to the public, and has a new WordPress plugin that does a two-way comment sync so all of your comments are always stored in your database so you can easily turn ID on and off without losing anything.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:25:57 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:355:\"IntenseDebate is back open to the public, and has a new WordPress plugin that does a two-way comment sync so all of your comments are always stored in your database so you can easily turn ID on and off without losing anything.
\";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/13\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4563\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/13/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1113-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3118:\"By organizing your galleries as multiple child pages of one parent page, you can use this plugin to see a preview thumbnail and description of each gallery.
\n\nIntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.
\n\nEnables you to inspect how the builtin cache is working.
\n\nEasy to use Wordpress plugin to insert Google Adsense to your posts, pages and sidebar.
\n\nSelectively adds Digg button to your posts. Use ‘digg’ = ‘1′ custom field in the post to promote.
\n\nThis plugin allows your visitors to draw an image as extra comment.
\n\nHelps your blog detect where the user comes from and automatically displays the corresponding greetings.
\n\nChecks WordPress installation (database and files) for changes and emails admin if any changes took place.
\nThis plugin allows you to add an interactive video player that includes an upload/import tool and a web-based video mixer. You can also allow your readers and subscribers to add video comments to your blog posts. (Requires registration to download)
\n\nThe plugin enables you to enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more… (Requires registration to download)
\n\nTwitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
\n\nTurns WordPress into a photoblog. Allows queue based photo management, batch uploads and automatic posting of photos at regular intervals.
\n\nWith this plugin you can switch to a totally different blog template when you are logged in to your WordPress dashboard.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:25:48 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3118:\"By organizing your galleries as multiple child pages of one parent page, you can use this plugin to see a preview thumbnail and description of each gallery.
\n\nIntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.
\n\nEnables you to inspect how the builtin cache is working.
\n\nEasy to use Wordpress plugin to insert Google Adsense to your posts, pages and sidebar.
\n\nSelectively adds Digg button to your posts. Use ‘digg’ = ‘1′ custom field in the post to promote.
\n\nThis plugin allows your visitors to draw an image as extra comment.
\n\nHelps your blog detect where the user comes from and automatically displays the corresponding greetings.
\n\nChecks WordPress installation (database and files) for changes and emails admin if any changes took place.
\nThis plugin allows you to add an interactive video player that includes an upload/import tool and a web-based video mixer. You can also allow your readers and subscribers to add video comments to your blog posts. (Requires registration to download)
\n\nThe plugin enables you to enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more… (Requires registration to download)
\n\nTwitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
\n\nTurns WordPress into a photoblog. Allows queue based photo management, batch uploads and automatic posting of photos at regular intervals.
\n\nWith this plugin you can switch to a totally different blog template when you are logged in to your WordPress dashboard.
\";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.7: Project Icon\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=419\";s:4:\"link\";s:67:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-project-icon/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3334:\"Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the icon design assignment into a contest so that more people could participate and the community could have a vote in what the new icons should look like.
\nOnce we decided to go with a contest format instead of a single-designer gig, about half the original volunteers changed their minds. The remaining designers each submitted two icons (Posts, Links) in their proposed style. At this stage a couple of designers were thanked for their submissions but eliminated from the competition because their icons were considered too far afield from the WordPress visual style. The remaining designers were given feedback on the icons they had submitted and given about a week to complete the icon set for the menu as well as the list/excerpt icons that are shown on the Edit Posts screen. All but one of these designers finished a complete set, giving us five sets in total.
\nSo now we need to choose a direction. For each of the icon sets, we’ll show you the set itself, the designer’s introduction, and some feedback from the lead developers. After you’ve reviewed all five, place your vote for the set you think has the visual style that is the most suitable for WordPress 2.7. This will be followed by additional votes on specific icons, so if you like the specific image used in one set but like the style of another, you can vote to change the metaphor for a given icon. You’ll also be able to leave general feedback throughout the voting process. When voting has concluded, we’ll review the comments and the votes, and will declare a winner.
\nThings to bear in mind when making your selections:
\nA week is not a long time to create 13 icons. The winning set will undergo a revision to be refined, and some icons may be substituted. We asked for all icons in grayscale for the contest. An “on” state and a larger size for screen headers will be designed by the winner. It seemed like too much work to have everyone do multiple states for so many icons.
Ready? Go and take the icon survey. (The survey has now been closed.) Voting will remain open for 48 hours from the time of this post to allow people from all time zones a chance to participate before we close the survey and make a decision (since we’d like to include the new icons in Beta 3).
\nA Note Regarding the 2.7 Release Date:
\nAs we approach Beta 3, bug tickets continue to be added to Trac, the pain of making things look good in IE6 continues to be felt, and the need to improve accessibility looms. If you love WordPress, are a decent coder, and want to contribute like these icon designers contributed, please consider contributing a patch to help with one of these efforts. Jump right in on current Trac tickets, or pop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel to ask what to do.
Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the icon design assignment into a contest so that more people could participate and the community could have a vote in what the new icons should look like.
\nOnce we decided to go with a contest format instead of a single-designer gig, about half the original volunteers changed their minds. The remaining designers each submitted two icons (Posts, Links) in their proposed style. At this stage a couple of designers were thanked for their submissions but eliminated from the competition because their icons were considered too far afield from the WordPress visual style. The remaining designers were given feedback on the icons they had submitted and given about a week to complete the icon set for the menu as well as the list/excerpt icons that are shown on the Edit Posts screen. All but one of these designers finished a complete set, giving us five sets in total.
\nSo now we need to choose a direction. For each of the icon sets, we’ll show you the set itself, the designer’s introduction, and some feedback from the lead developers. After you’ve reviewed all five, place your vote for the set you think has the visual style that is the most suitable for WordPress 2.7. This will be followed by additional votes on specific icons, so if you like the specific image used in one set but like the style of another, you can vote to change the metaphor for a given icon. You’ll also be able to leave general feedback throughout the voting process. When voting has concluded, we’ll review the comments and the votes, and will declare a winner.
\nThings to bear in mind when making your selections:
\nA week is not a long time to create 13 icons. The winning set will undergo a revision to be refined, and some icons may be substituted. We asked for all icons in grayscale for the contest. An “on” state and a larger size for screen headers will be designed by the winner. It seemed like too much work to have everyone do multiple states for so many icons.
Ready? Go and take the icon survey. (The survey has now been closed.) Voting will remain open for 48 hours from the time of this post to allow people from all time zones a chance to participate before we close the survey and make a decision (since we’d like to include the new icons in Beta 3).
\nA Note Regarding the 2.7 Release Date:
\nAs we approach Beta 3, bug tickets continue to be added to Trac, the pain of making things look good in IE6 continues to be felt, and the need to improve accessibility looms. If you love WordPress, are a decent coder, and want to contribute like these icon designers contributed, please consider contributing a patch to help with one of these efforts. Jump right in on current Trac tickets, or pop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel to ask what to do.
I wanted to take a moment out to give kudos to the folks behind Hulu. Remember how much criticism and naysaying they got before and during their launch? It must feel good to have executed so well, and the content they have is really killer. You can watch all of Fifth Element, for example.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:59:23 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:413:\"I wanted to take a moment out to give kudos to the folks behind Hulu. Remember how much criticism and naysaying they got before and during their launch? It must feel good to have executed so well, and the content they have is really killer. You can watch all of Fifth Element, for example.
\";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:28:\"Alex King: Twitter Tools 1.5\";s:4:\"guid\";s:52:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/11/12/twitter-tools-15\";s:4:\"link\";s:52:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/11/12/twitter-tools-15\";s:11:\"description\";s:2764:\"Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a two-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account, has been updated to version 1.5.
\nThis version has an important bug fix for a problem in earlier betas of 1.5 that didn’t properly throttle requests to Twitter.
\nIf you are using a 1.5 beta - this is a must upgrade situation.
\nThere are also a bunch of new features:
\nThe download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
\nIf you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and e-mail me a link to the thread.
\nEnjoy!
\n\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:33:41 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2764:\"Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a two-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account, has been updated to version 1.5.
\nThis version has an important bug fix for a problem in earlier betas of 1.5 that didn’t properly throttle requests to Twitter.
\nIf you are using a 1.5 beta - this is a must upgrade situation.
\nThere are also a bunch of new features:
\nThe download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
\nIf you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and e-mail me a link to the thread.
\nEnjoy!
\n\n \";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/12\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4561\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/12/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1112/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2140:\"\n![\"digital-statement\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/digitalstatement.gif\" "\\"digital-statement\\"")
Three column, fixed width, feature rich theme with support for Twitter and Flickr. The theme requires the user to follow some setup steps for optimum use.
\n\n![\"pink-theme\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/pinktheme.png\" "\\"pink-theme\\"")
Pink and white, two column, fixed width theme with rounded corners.
\n\n![\"ss-theme-circuit-full\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/ssthemecircuitfull.png\" "\\"ss-theme-circuit-full\\"")
Circuit is a high-contrast, two column, typographically-driven theme for WordPress that is based on the Sandbox theme (so you need both of them).
\n\n![\"Ark\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/ark.png\" "\\"Ark\\"")
Ark is an olive colored 2 column widget-ready WordPress theme
\n\n![\"positie1theme\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/positie1theme.png\" "\\"positie1theme\\"")
Four column theme with three sidebars - 1 widget-ready and 1 for Google Adsense.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:21:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2140:\"\n
Three column, fixed width, feature rich theme with support for Twitter and Flickr. The theme requires the user to follow some setup steps for optimum use.
\n\n
Pink and white, two column, fixed width theme with rounded corners.
\n\n
Circuit is a high-contrast, two column, typographically-driven theme for WordPress that is based on the Sandbox theme (so you need both of them).
\n\n
Ark is an olive colored 2 column widget-ready WordPress theme
\n\n
Four column theme with three sidebars - 1 widget-ready and 1 for Google Adsense.
\";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:45:\"Weblog Tools Collection: 10 Optimization Tips\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4551\";s:4:\"link\";s:74:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/12/10-optimization-tips/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1076:\"Even though WordPress works pretty well out of the box, there is still a number of optimization tips that can be accomplished to make WordPress function that much better. Vladimir Prelovac has done an excellent job describing ten optimization tips that you can use on your own WordPress installation. The tips and techniques range from optimizing database tables to implementing caching. There should be at least one or two tips within this article that everyone can implement on their own blog.
\nHere is a sample for you to chew on:
\n\nTip #1: If you are expecting a Digg Front Page you are likely to exceed your current limit of maximum concurrent MySQL connections which is among the prime reasons a site failing a Digg traffic spike.
\nYou can prepare by increasing this number to about 250 using this line in the config file.
\nmax_connections = 250
Check out the full list here (10 Best Tips For WordPress Optimization)
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:12:39 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1076:\"Even though WordPress works pretty well out of the box, there is still a number of optimization tips that can be accomplished to make WordPress function that much better. Vladimir Prelovac has done an excellent job describing ten optimization tips that you can use on your own WordPress installation. The tips and techniques range from optimizing database tables to implementing caching. There should be at least one or two tips within this article that everyone can implement on their own blog.
\nHere is a sample for you to chew on:
\n\nTip #1: If you are expecting a Digg Front Page you are likely to exceed your current limit of maximum concurrent MySQL connections which is among the prime reasons a site failing a Digg traffic spike.
\nYou can prepare by increasing this number to about 250 using this line in the config file.
\nmax_connections = 250
Check out the full list here (10 Best Tips For WordPress Optimization)
\";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:48:\"Mike Little: New Journalized Theme Beta Released\";s:4:\"guid\";s:35:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/?p=1268\";s:4:\"link\";s:79:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2008/11/12/new-journalized-theme-released/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1105:\"After nearly two years of inactivity, I have finally updated and released a new version of my Journalized Theme.
\n![\"screenshot](\"http://zed1.com/wp-themes/journalized-theme-2.7-screenshot-composite-400.png\")
The theme includes support for WordPress 2.7 features, but is backwards compatible with WordPress 2.5 and 2.6
\nJust some of the new features:
\nGo check it out and let me know what you think. (Leave feedback on the theme page, not here)
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:44:02 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"mike\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1105:\"After nearly two years of inactivity, I have finally updated and released a new version of my Journalized Theme.
\n
The theme includes support for WordPress 2.7 features, but is backwards compatible with WordPress 2.5 and 2.6
\nJust some of the new features:
\nGo check it out and let me know what you think. (Leave feedback on the theme page, not here)
\";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/11\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4549\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/11/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1111-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3361:\"This pulgin/widget enable you to pull the category and product listing from you osCommerce site.
\n\nWP-HoneyPot enables you to add a hidden link on your blog in one of several locations that will change randomly to ensure that spammers are less able to adapt to the solution.
\n\nThis plugin will show information about pray (shollu) times in your place.
\n\nThe Author Birthdays plugin will display in the sidebar or footer a list of authors born on the current day. There is also a feature which allows you to see all authors born in a given month.
\n\nAdds category, tag and comment feed auto-discovery links. Category feed links are added only to category views, tag feed links to tag views and commen
\n\nScriblio enables faceted searching/browsing features and metadata tools that turn WordPress into a library catalog or digital archive.
\n\nEventr Plugin lets you create events and provide your visitors with a form that lets them register for the event.
\n\nInclude images in your WordPress RSS.
\n\nDisplay a splash page to tell your visitor that your site is currently under maintenance.
\n\nSends an email to the comment author when their comment gets approved (only if it’s held for moderation).
\nCustom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to seamlessly re-brand the WordPress login screen as well as the admin header and footer with your own custom logos or images.
\n\nPlugin that extends WordPress by providing a set of functions. (Page in Italian)
\n\nCounts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.
\n\nGlobal Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in 34 different languages
\n\nThis plugin is used to monetize WordPress blog content using PayPal. It is designed to sell your knowledge.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:55:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3361:\"This pulgin/widget enable you to pull the category and product listing from you osCommerce site.
\n\nWP-HoneyPot enables you to add a hidden link on your blog in one of several locations that will change randomly to ensure that spammers are less able to adapt to the solution.
\n\nThis plugin will show information about pray (shollu) times in your place.
\n\nThe Author Birthdays plugin will display in the sidebar or footer a list of authors born on the current day. There is also a feature which allows you to see all authors born in a given month.
\n\nAdds category, tag and comment feed auto-discovery links. Category feed links are added only to category views, tag feed links to tag views and commen
\n\nScriblio enables faceted searching/browsing features and metadata tools that turn WordPress into a library catalog or digital archive.
\n\nEventr Plugin lets you create events and provide your visitors with a form that lets them register for the event.
\n\nInclude images in your WordPress RSS.
\n\nDisplay a splash page to tell your visitor that your site is currently under maintenance.
\n\nSends an email to the comment author when their comment gets approved (only if it’s held for moderation).
\nCustom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to seamlessly re-brand the WordPress login screen as well as the admin header and footer with your own custom logos or images.
\n\nPlugin that extends WordPress by providing a set of functions. (Page in Italian)
\n\nCounts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.
\n\nGlobal Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in 34 different languages
\n\nThis plugin is used to monetize WordPress blog content using PayPal. It is designed to sell your knowledge.
\";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:24:\"Matt: WordCamp Australia\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=8831\";s:4:\"link\";s:40:\"http://ma.tt/2008/11/wordcamp-australia/\";s:11:\"description\";s:189:\"I’ll be in Australia later this month for WordCamp Australia - if you’re in the country you should come out.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:39:43 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:189:\"I’ll be in Australia later this month for WordCamp Australia - if you’re in the country you should come out.
\";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/09\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4541\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/09/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1109/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3015:\"Adds Negaraku button to your WordPress blog posts - fully customizable.
\n\nEnter the birthdays you want to remember and it will warn you 7 days in advance.
\n\nFlipping book image gallery for your photos.
\n\nAllows one to add “invalid” and custom HTML elements to the TinyMCE editor.
\n\nHides the icons in the expanded WordPress 2.7 admin menu.
\n\nQuizzin lets you create quizzes with any number of questions in it. Each question can have many answers - in which one should be marked as the correct answer.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to display an Map24 Routing Form on your Blog.
\n\niSape is meant for the sale of conventional and contextual links in Sape.ru
\n\nAutomatically generates a summary post of your best posts over a specified period of time based on the most popular posts in terms of number of comments or number of visits.
\nIt makes it easy to have unique sidebar content on any page.
\n\nManage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.
\n\nThis is a simple plugin that enables you to add links to a posted post on certain text you selected with just a click!
\n\nComicPress Manager ties in with the ComicPress theme to make managing your WordPress-hosted Webcomic easy and fast.
\n\nhttp:BL WordPress Plugin allows you to verify IP addresses of clients connecting to your blog against the Project Honey Pot database.
\n\nThis plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not Wordpress.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:28:03 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ajay\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3015:\"Adds Negaraku button to your WordPress blog posts - fully customizable.
\n\nEnter the birthdays you want to remember and it will warn you 7 days in advance.
\n\nFlipping book image gallery for your photos.
\n\nAllows one to add “invalid” and custom HTML elements to the TinyMCE editor.
\n\nHides the icons in the expanded WordPress 2.7 admin menu.
\n\nQuizzin lets you create quizzes with any number of questions in it. Each question can have many answers - in which one should be marked as the correct answer.
\n\nThis plugin allows you to display an Map24 Routing Form on your Blog.
\n\niSape is meant for the sale of conventional and contextual links in Sape.ru
\n\nAutomatically generates a summary post of your best posts over a specified period of time based on the most popular posts in terms of number of comments or number of visits.
\nIt makes it easy to have unique sidebar content on any page.
\n\nManage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.
\n\nThis is a simple plugin that enables you to add links to a posted post on certain text you selected with just a click!
\n\nComicPress Manager ties in with the ComicPress theme to make managing your WordPress-hosted Webcomic easy and fast.
\n\nhttp:BL WordPress Plugin allows you to verify IP addresses of clients connecting to your blog against the Project Honey Pot database.
\n\nThis plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not Wordpress.
\";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:51:\"Weblog Tools Collection: This time, it’s personal\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4537\";s:4:\"link\";s:76:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/09/this-time-its-personal/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4368:\"I receive a lot of comments, emails and questions on WordPress and we try to answer them all as succinctly and as quickly as possible. However, there is one question that I receive over and over again that I do did not have a quick and painless answer for. Professional designers and web developers who help small businesses and individuals with their custom WordPress needs have been telling me that some of their clients are worried about the new WordPress 2.7 and the hype surrounding it. The completely new WordPress 2.7 admin interface scares some of their clients to the point that they are worried about switching. They are worried that the backend will continue to change and become unfamliar and different with every new release and their blogging lives will be made more difficult with each future upgrade. I have tried to allay the fears in my replies with examples of how blogging tasks will get easier in 2.7 with screenshots and writeups on various blogs and review sites. What they really needed was a quick, simple and effective way to communicate how much better this new admin interface really is and what has been done to make bloggers’ lives simpler and WordPress easier and more fun to use. What they needed was a WordPress 2.7 trailer.
\nThe Automattic team (thanks Jane!), has posted just that on the WordPress.com blog. This time, it’s personal has a nice and short video to answer those questions and alleviate the FUD. I love the trailer-like commentary on the video. If you are one of those that have received such questions and/or concerns from your clients, I suggest you use the video well and use it often.
\nI cannot wait for the WordPress 2.7 release! My dad is an avid blogger on WordPress but is not very technically inclined at all. He loved the new 2.7 interface when I showed it to him and it seemed so intuitive to him that he found everything he had used in the past without any fumbling at all.
\nAre you or one of your clients in this boat? Do you have any other material that can help reduce the fear of upgrading to WordPress 2.7?
\n[EDIT] For those that are looking for more detailed information on the thinking and design process that went into WordPress 2.7, here are a few links to blog posts, videos and walkthroughs from the past months. If you have other links to share, please leave and comment and we will add them to this list.
\nUsability Testing Report: 2.5 and CrazyHorse
\nThe New 2.7 Dashboard
\nThe Visual Design of 2.7
\nWordPress 2.7 wireframes
\nComprehensive Codex Article on WordPress 2.7
\nWordPress Development Updates from Jane Wells
\nWordPress Usability Testing in New York
\nWordPress 2.7 UI Configurability from Ryan Boren
\nCustomizable Post Editing Screen from Mark Jaquith
\nWordPress 2.7 Navigation Survey from Jane Wells
\nShortcuts/Favorites Menu from Jane Wells
\nCrazyHorse Presentation at WordCamp SF
\nWordPress 2.7 Walkthrough by Matt
\nWordPress 2.7 and beyond from Matt at WordCamp Utah
I receive a lot of comments, emails and questions on WordPress and we try to answer them all as succinctly and as quickly as possible. However, there is one question that I receive over and over again that I do did not have a quick and painless answer for. Professional designers and web developers who help small businesses and individuals with their custom WordPress needs have been telling me that some of their clients are worried about the new WordPress 2.7 and the hype surrounding it. The completely new WordPress 2.7 admin interface scares some of their clients to the point that they are worried about switching. They are worried that the backend will continue to change and become unfamliar and different with every new release and their blogging lives will be made more difficult with each future upgrade. I have tried to allay the fears in my replies with examples of how blogging tasks will get easier in 2.7 with screenshots and writeups on various blogs and review sites. What they really needed was a quick, simple and effective way to communicate how much better this new admin interface really is and what has been done to make bloggers’ lives simpler and WordPress easier and more fun to use. What they needed was a WordPress 2.7 trailer.
\nThe Automattic team (thanks Jane!), has posted just that on the WordPress.com blog. This time, it’s personal has a nice and short video to answer those questions and alleviate the FUD. I love the trailer-like commentary on the video. If you are one of those that have received such questions and/or concerns from your clients, I suggest you use the video well and use it often.
\nI cannot wait for the WordPress 2.7 release! My dad is an avid blogger on WordPress but is not very technically inclined at all. He loved the new 2.7 interface when I showed it to him and it seemed so intuitive to him that he found everything he had used in the past without any fumbling at all.
\nAre you or one of your clients in this boat? Do you have any other material that can help reduce the fear of upgrading to WordPress 2.7?
\n[EDIT] For those that are looking for more detailed information on the thinking and design process that went into WordPress 2.7, here are a few links to blog posts, videos and walkthroughs from the past months. If you have other links to share, please leave and comment and we will add them to this list.
\nUsability Testing Report: 2.5 and CrazyHorse
\nThe New 2.7 Dashboard
\nThe Visual Design of 2.7
\nWordPress 2.7 wireframes
\nComprehensive Codex Article on WordPress 2.7
\nWordPress Development Updates from Jane Wells
\nWordPress Usability Testing in New York
\nWordPress 2.7 UI Configurability from Ryan Boren
\nCustomizable Post Editing Screen from Mark Jaquith
\nWordPress 2.7 Navigation Survey from Jane Wells
\nShortcuts/Favorites Menu from Jane Wells
\nCrazyHorse Presentation at WordCamp SF
\nWordPress 2.7 Walkthrough by Matt
\nWordPress 2.7 and beyond from Matt at WordCamp Utah
Will the Core Update feature in WordPress 2.7 work on your webhosting account? One way to find out is to view the new article in the Codex entitled “Core Update Host Compatibility“. This article serves as a central location to discover whether or not the Core Update feature works with a specific web hosting company. The article is divided up into three sections and lists webhosting companies in alphabetical order:
\nKeep in mind that:
\n\nIt is important to note that the update feature will not work when updating to Version 2.7, but rather will work for Versions released AFTER 2.7 (e.g. upgrading from 2.7 to 2.7.1)!
If you discover during the beta test period that the core update feature works on your webhosting account, please add the company to the Codex article within the appropriate section.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:39:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1055:\"Will the Core Update feature in WordPress 2.7 work on your webhosting account? One way to find out is to view the new article in the Codex entitled “Core Update Host Compatibility“. This article serves as a central location to discover whether or not the Core Update feature works with a specific web hosting company. The article is divided up into three sections and lists webhosting companies in alphabetical order:
\nKeep in mind that:
\n\nIt is important to note that the update feature will not work when updating to Version 2.7, but rather will work for Versions released AFTER 2.7 (e.g. upgrading from 2.7 to 2.7.1)!
If you discover during the beta test period that the core update feature works on your webhosting account, please add the company to the Codex article within the appropriate section.
\";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:24:\"Matt: Buenos Aires Day 3\";s:4:\"guid\";s:20:\"http://ma.tt/?p=8745\";s:4:\"link\";s:40:\"http://ma.tt/2008/11/buenos-aires-day-3/\";s:11:\"description\";s:17196:\"Interview, dinner, drinks, mojitos mo’ problems.
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:45:18 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:17196:\"Interview, dinner, drinks, mojitos mo’ problems.
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3-columned, search-engine optimized, widget ready, highly customizable WordPress theme with an emphasis on usability.
\n\n![\"seoblogthemeheader-thumb\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/seoblogthemeheaderthumb.jpg\" "\\"seoblogthemeheader-thumb\\"")
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\n\n![\"greatideas\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/11/greatideas.jpg\" "\\"greatideas\\"")
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TDAge is a light-blue two column theme with big, bold feed and “about” images, and large-font headers. TDAge also has easy access links to a blog’s pages and categories from the headers, and has a clean-cut pre-defined template for use as an archive summary page.
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3-columned, search-engine optimized, widget ready, highly customizable WordPress theme with an emphasis on usability.
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Three column gravatar theme with widgetized sidebar and footer, customizable header and with twitter integrated.
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Three column, fixed width, widget ready theme
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TDAge is a light-blue two column theme with big, bold feed and “about” images, and large-font headers. TDAge also has easy access links to a blog’s pages and categories from the headers, and has a clean-cut pre-defined template for use as an archive summary page.
\";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:33:\"Lorelle on WP: WordPress 2.7 News\";s:4:\"guid\";s:36:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3233\";s:4:\"link\";s:58:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/wordpress-27-news/\";s:11:\"description\";s:13333:\"![\"WordPress](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpnews1.png\")
There is a lot of news flying around about the upcoming HOT release of WordPress 2.7, the version featuring the new Administration Panel interface, part of a long project to make WordPress more usable and accessible.
Originally scheduled for November 10, 2008, they’ve pushed back the release by at least two weeks in order to do more testing and development, as well as inclusion of the tremendous feedback they’ve gotten from the most recent beta testing versions.
\nWordPress 2.7 Beta 2 was just released, fixing a lot of the bugs found in Beta 1.
\nAt the time of writing this, the WordPress Development Twitter had 149 changes and fixes reported over the past week. Improvements have been made to localization, the Write Post Panel, design problems for Internet Explorer, rewrite rules for various servers and hosts, and the WordPress Plugin update and install feature. More improvements, fixes, and design features are in process for the next beta release. Updates are coming so fast, I can barely keep up with all the work they are doing to make this one of the most exciting releases ever.
\nThe new interface is being cheered and readily accepted by testers and many are loving the new Comments and Write Post Panels. The ease of blogging and information on the new Dashboard Panel makes that screen more valuable than ever. The new Dashboard panel includes customizable feeds, quick posting to your blog, checking and responding to comments, and a lot more, making it a one-stop access point to your WordPress blog.
\nSo far, the reaction from most has been exceptionally positive and most are eager for the new version. Feedback and input continues with polls and surveys and feedback. Jane Wells asked “What’s your favorite thing about the 2.7 Beta?” to encourage your feedback on the latest beta version. You are also asked to report to the Alpha/Beta sections on the WordPress Support Forums and the mailing lists with feedback and input.
\nArticles are coming out with news and information on the new version all around the web and include:
\nfunctions.phpIn general, WordPress Themes will continue to work with few changes. However, if you want to take advantage of the new WordPress Theme Parent/Child system as part of the automatic Theme upgrade and download feature, they may need to be upgraded. Check with your WordPress Theme developer for updates and news.
\nWordPress Plugins will work, unless their hook into the Administration Panels has changed. WordPress Plugins that rely upon the Administration Panels will need tweaking or redesign work to meld with the new interface.
\nMany WordPress Plugin authors are reporting upgrades and updates to their Plugins in order to work with the new version of WordPress. Some of these include:
\nMore news will be coming out, along with a lot of reports and reviews on the new WordPress. Check in with me on the Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News for more updated information.
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There is a lot of news flying around about the upcoming HOT release of WordPress 2.7, the version featuring the new Administration Panel interface, part of a long project to make WordPress more usable and accessible.
Originally scheduled for November 10, 2008, they’ve pushed back the release by at least two weeks in order to do more testing and development, as well as inclusion of the tremendous feedback they’ve gotten from the most recent beta testing versions.
\nWordPress 2.7 Beta 2 was just released, fixing a lot of the bugs found in Beta 1.
\nAt the time of writing this, the WordPress Development Twitter had 149 changes and fixes reported over the past week. Improvements have been made to localization, the Write Post Panel, design problems for Internet Explorer, rewrite rules for various servers and hosts, and the WordPress Plugin update and install feature. More improvements, fixes, and design features are in process for the next beta release. Updates are coming so fast, I can barely keep up with all the work they are doing to make this one of the most exciting releases ever.
\nThe new interface is being cheered and readily accepted by testers and many are loving the new Comments and Write Post Panels. The ease of blogging and information on the new Dashboard Panel makes that screen more valuable than ever. The new Dashboard panel includes customizable feeds, quick posting to your blog, checking and responding to comments, and a lot more, making it a one-stop access point to your WordPress blog.
\nSo far, the reaction from most has been exceptionally positive and most are eager for the new version. Feedback and input continues with polls and surveys and feedback. Jane Wells asked “What’s your favorite thing about the 2.7 Beta?” to encourage your feedback on the latest beta version. You are also asked to report to the Alpha/Beta sections on the WordPress Support Forums and the mailing lists with feedback and input.
\nArticles are coming out with news and information on the new version all around the web and include:
\nfunctions.phpIn general, WordPress Themes will continue to work with few changes. However, if you want to take advantage of the new WordPress Theme Parent/Child system as part of the automatic Theme upgrade and download feature, they may need to be upgraded. Check with your WordPress Theme developer for updates and news.
\nWordPress Plugins will work, unless their hook into the Administration Panels has changed. WordPress Plugins that rely upon the Administration Panels will need tweaking or redesign work to meld with the new interface.
\nMany WordPress Plugin authors are reporting upgrades and updates to their Plugins in order to work with the new version of WordPress. Some of these include:
\nMore news will be coming out, along with a lot of reports and reviews on the new WordPress. Check in with me on the Blog Herald WordPress Wednesday News for more updated information.
\n
\n
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Take care when searching for WordPress that you do not end up on a fake WordPress site. Wordpresz.org looks like the WordPress site but isn’t.
This is just the first of what could be a run on fake sites that take advantage of your careless misspelling and spoofs the official WordPress site. Pay close attention and type out manually http://www.wordpress.org/ and double check the URL before downloading anything from the official WordPress sites.
\nIf you upgraded WordPress to 2.6.4, you are running a fake version. There is no WordPress 2.6.4. The latest version is 2.6.3. The version of WordPress you download has malicious code in the download that opens a backdoor to your blog.
\nAutomattic is looking at ways to keep users informed and warned, but pay attention to details. Just check first and know what you are downloading before risking your blog.
\nFor more information see these articles, but please, do not click through to the fake WordPress site mentioned:
\nWordPress users are not the only ones who need to watch themselves and protect themselves from security vulnerabilities and attacks.
\nSecurity Focus reports that Obama and McCain got a lesson in cybersecurity when their campaign websites/blogs were attacked. The FBI is investigating and the attacks were thwarted.
\nThe increase in website hacking and phishing attempts is increasing, and all website server systems, CMS and blog platforms, and web applications are increasing their security stance around the world. Monitor the various WordPress news resources for updated information to help protect your WordPress blog and your site in general.
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Take care when searching for WordPress that you do not end up on a fake WordPress site. Wordpresz.org looks like the WordPress site but isn’t.
This is just the first of what could be a run on fake sites that take advantage of your careless misspelling and spoofs the official WordPress site. Pay close attention and type out manually http://www.wordpress.org/ and double check the URL before downloading anything from the official WordPress sites.
\nIf you upgraded WordPress to 2.6.4, you are running a fake version. There is no WordPress 2.6.4. The latest version is 2.6.3. The version of WordPress you download has malicious code in the download that opens a backdoor to your blog.
\nAutomattic is looking at ways to keep users informed and warned, but pay attention to details. Just check first and know what you are downloading before risking your blog.
\nFor more information see these articles, but please, do not click through to the fake WordPress site mentioned:
\nWordPress users are not the only ones who need to watch themselves and protect themselves from security vulnerabilities and attacks.
\nSecurity Focus reports that Obama and McCain got a lesson in cybersecurity when their campaign websites/blogs were attacked. The FBI is investigating and the attacks were thwarted.
\nThe increase in website hacking and phishing attempts is increasing, and all website server systems, CMS and blog platforms, and web applications are increasing their security stance around the world. Monitor the various WordPress news resources for updated information to help protect your WordPress blog and your site in general.
\n
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As you can probably tell from the title, this episode features quite a bit of discussion surrounding WordPress 2.7. Not to worry though as there are plenty of other things that Keith and I discuss such as our favorite feature in WordPress 2.7 Beta 1, the WordPress showcase, whether or not Drupal can beat WordPress, and near the end of the show, Anthony Cole called in and gave us the 411 on WordCamp Australia which is taking place on November 29th and November 30th.
WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. Those of you who continue to download the show and share it with friends, your continued support is appreciated. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact Mark Ghosh via this contact form.
\nYour Favorite Feature In 2.7 Beta 1
\n\n\n\n\nWe encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then tune in and see if your comment made it on the air!
\nJeff - Custom Permalinks – Custom Permalinks is a Wordpress plugin that gives you ultimate control over your site structure. Lay out your site the way you want it. Set the URL of any post, tag or category to anything you want. Old permalinks will redirect properly to the new address.
\nKeith - Feed Entry Header - FeedEntryHeader provides you the ability to protect your content online. Many of us have had the experience of seeing our content posted mysteriously on someone else’s website word-for-word. It usually happens by having someone grab content from your RSS feed and slap it into their blog. (Bloody splogs!) This plugin provides you the ability to customize a header to be placed at the start of each article in your feed to help ensure that sploggers are pointed out, and links back to your original post are included in the splog’s repost.
\nJob was posted on October 30th, 2008 by Mark Ghosh. The job description is as follows:
\nWe are looking for a web and graphics designer for a popular blog. Ideal candidates include artists and designers with experience in working on WordPress, who have a fair amount of experience in designing graphics with a flair for modern colors and styles and the ability to conceptualize and produce web experiences from the ground up. Experience with SEO, web usability, semantics and
\nethical and effective marketing also required. PHP programming experience not as important. If you want to work with us, you need to wow us with your portfolio. Individuals and design houses welcome. Our promise is to give you the ability to flex your design muscles, provide outlets for your creativity and a lot of exposure for your work. If we like your work, we will get back with you and talk about costs and timelines under NDA.
\nIf interested please contact mark at wltc dot net
\nNext Episode: Friday November 14th, 2008 8P.M. EST
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode: 57 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode28.mp3
\nListen To Episode #28:
\n
As you can probably tell from the title, this episode features quite a bit of discussion surrounding WordPress 2.7. Not to worry though as there are plenty of other things that Keith and I discuss such as our favorite feature in WordPress 2.7 Beta 1, the WordPress showcase, whether or not Drupal can beat WordPress, and near the end of the show, Anthony Cole called in and gave us the 411 on WordCamp Australia which is taking place on November 29th and November 30th.
WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. Those of you who continue to download the show and share it with friends, your continued support is appreciated. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact Mark Ghosh via this contact form.
\nYour Favorite Feature In 2.7 Beta 1
\n\n\n\n\nWe encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then tune in and see if your comment made it on the air!
\nJeff - Custom Permalinks – Custom Permalinks is a Wordpress plugin that gives you ultimate control over your site structure. Lay out your site the way you want it. Set the URL of any post, tag or category to anything you want. Old permalinks will redirect properly to the new address.
\nKeith - Feed Entry Header - FeedEntryHeader provides you the ability to protect your content online. Many of us have had the experience of seeing our content posted mysteriously on someone else’s website word-for-word. It usually happens by having someone grab content from your RSS feed and slap it into their blog. (Bloody splogs!) This plugin provides you the ability to customize a header to be placed at the start of each article in your feed to help ensure that sploggers are pointed out, and links back to your original post are included in the splog’s repost.
\nJob was posted on October 30th, 2008 by Mark Ghosh. The job description is as follows:
\nWe are looking for a web and graphics designer for a popular blog. Ideal candidates include artists and designers with experience in working on WordPress, who have a fair amount of experience in designing graphics with a flair for modern colors and styles and the ability to conceptualize and produce web experiences from the ground up. Experience with SEO, web usability, semantics and
\nethical and effective marketing also required. PHP programming experience not as important. If you want to work with us, you need to wow us with your portfolio. Individuals and design houses welcome. Our promise is to give you the ability to flex your design muscles, provide outlets for your creativity and a lot of exposure for your work. If we like your work, we will get back with you and talk about costs and timelines under NDA.
\nIf interested please contact mark at wltc dot net
\nNext Episode: Friday November 14th, 2008 8P.M. EST
\nSubscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
\nLength Of Episode: 57 Minutes
\nDownload The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode28.mp3
\nListen To Episode #28:
\n
Oobject is “Billboard charts for gadgets” and a great example of using WordPress as a CMS. It’s from David Galbraith.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:20:58 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:221:\"Oobject is “Billboard charts for gadgets” and a great example of using WordPress as a CMS. It’s from David Galbraith.
\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/07\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4513\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/11/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1107/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2966:\"This plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not WordPress.
\nA tumblelog engine / theme for self-hosted WordPress with some bits of microformats love.
\n\nWhen a reply is made to a comment the user has left on the blog, an e-mail shall be sent to the user to notify him of the reply. This will allow the users to follow up the comment and expand the conversation if desired.
\n\nVirtual Multiblog allows you to run more than one blog off a single install of WordPress. Each blog is managed as a complete separate install — separate admin sections, separate users, etc. They will happily co-exist with different themes and plugins activated. The biggest advantage is that you will only have to keep one set of program files up-to-date, and this method should be expandable to as many different blogs as you like.
\n\nWith this plugin you can switch to a totally different blog template when you are logged in to your WordPress dashboard. Includes a widget.
\n\ncforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page!
\n\n“Mini” Version of the WordPress Meta Widget with different logon types (Form,Link) and additional Admin Links and Blog Links.
\n\nShow a list of articles, which were written a certain time ago.
\n\nThis will allow you to better manage how your attachments are handled. Attachments can be easily listed after posts, complete with icons.
\n[EDIT] Sorry about the title of the post. ![\":-)\"](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\"){kind=icon}
This plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not WordPress.
\nA tumblelog engine / theme for self-hosted WordPress with some bits of microformats love.
\n\nWhen a reply is made to a comment the user has left on the blog, an e-mail shall be sent to the user to notify him of the reply. This will allow the users to follow up the comment and expand the conversation if desired.
\n\nVirtual Multiblog allows you to run more than one blog off a single install of WordPress. Each blog is managed as a complete separate install — separate admin sections, separate users, etc. They will happily co-exist with different themes and plugins activated. The biggest advantage is that you will only have to keep one set of program files up-to-date, and this method should be expandable to as many different blogs as you like.
\n\nWith this plugin you can switch to a totally different blog template when you are logged in to your WordPress dashboard. Includes a widget.
\n\ncforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page!
\n\n“Mini” Version of the WordPress Meta Widget with different logon types (Form,Link) and additional Admin Links and Blog Links.
\n\nShow a list of articles, which were written a certain time ago.
\n\nThis will allow you to better manage how your attachments are handled. Attachments can be easily listed after posts, complete with icons.
\n[EDIT] Sorry about the title of the post.
Around Buenos Aires.
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:45:19 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:11188:\"Around Buenos Aires.
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"Peter Westwood: WordPresz\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://westi.wordpress.com/?p=58\";s:4:\"link\";s:48:\"http://westi.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/wordpresz/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2697:\"It seems there has been an attempt recently to distribute a trojaned version of WordPress via some form of phishing scam. It seems this attack relied on exploiting an old version of WordPress which had not been upgraded and changing it to point at a different site for one of the dashboard feeds. The site was then offering a trojaned install of a version of WordPress 2.6.4 which does not exist. The site has now been shutdown so it is nolonger possible to get hold of this Trojaned version but it does highlight the importance of upgrading when a security release is made.
\nAs I have said in my response in the article on The Register
\n\n Tagged: security, wordpreszWe recommend that people upgrade as soon as possible when we release a security release so as to ensure they are not vulnerable to issues which will likely have exploits in the wild. Also in the upcoming 2.7 release of WordPress we are including a built-in upgrade mechanism within WordPress which will allow people to upgrade automatically with ease.
\nI would however stress the need with any piece of software to check that an upgrade is real by visiting the website of the software provider manually rather than relying on a link that you have been provided. Otherwise, as with bank phishing scams there is the potential for someone to trick you into doing something you didn’t want to do.
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It seems there has been an attempt recently to distribute a trojaned version of WordPress via some form of phishing scam. It seems this attack relied on exploiting an old version of WordPress which had not been upgraded and changing it to point at a different site for one of the dashboard feeds. The site was then offering a trojaned install of a version of WordPress 2.6.4 which does not exist. The site has now been shutdown so it is nolonger possible to get hold of this Trojaned version but it does highlight the importance of upgrading when a security release is made.
\nAs I have said in my response in the article on The Register
\n\n Tagged: security, wordpreszWe recommend that people upgrade as soon as possible when we release a security release so as to ensure they are not vulnerable to issues which will likely have exploits in the wild. Also in the upcoming 2.7 release of WordPress we are including a built-in upgrade mechanism within WordPress which will allow people to upgrade automatically with ease.
\nI would however stress the need with any piece of software to check that an upgrade is real by visiting the website of the software provider manually rather than relying on a link that you have been provided. Otherwise, as with bank phishing scams there is the potential for someone to trick you into doing something you didn’t want to do.
Many sites across the blogosphere are reporting a fake website that is distributing a backdoored version of WordPress. Though these are few and far between, it behooves all users to be careful when downloading any kind of code to run on their blog. The Register report contains an update from Peter Westwood (a WordPress lead dev) about the code being distributed and his suggestions on how to avoid being duped. Though the fake site is down now and If you believe that you might have been the victim of this site, please download a fresh copy of WordPress from WordPress.org and upgrade your blog to be safe.
\nI personally follow a few simple rules to make sure that I never fall for a social engineering or covert code trap on my blogs.
\nDo you have any suggestions for our other readers? Have you found strange code on your blog or theme?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:26:35 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2674:\"Many sites across the blogosphere are reporting a fake website that is distributing a backdoored version of WordPress. Though these are few and far between, it behooves all users to be careful when downloading any kind of code to run on their blog. The Register report contains an update from Peter Westwood (a WordPress lead dev) about the code being distributed and his suggestions on how to avoid being duped. Though the fake site is down now and If you believe that you might have been the victim of this site, please download a fresh copy of WordPress from WordPress.org and upgrade your blog to be safe.
\nI personally follow a few simple rules to make sure that I never fall for a social engineering or covert code trap on my blogs.
\nDo you have any suggestions for our other readers? Have you found strange code on your blog or theme?
\";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 2\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=415\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1725:\"WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.
\nIf you have already installed beta 1, you can update to beta 2 via the Tools -> Update menu. Beta 1 does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install Beta 2 manually if you experience problems.
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:03:57 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Ryan Boren\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1725:\"WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.
\nIf you have already installed beta 1, you can update to beta 2 via the Tools -> Update menu. Beta 1 does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install Beta 2 manually if you experience problems.
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