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WordPress 2.1 is almost here and you know what that means for developers. Itâ€™s time to pull out those old plugins youâ€™ve had stashed, blow off the dust and start applying some spit and polish and make sure it will last longer than Grandmaâ€™s Ham and Bean soup that has been [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2284:"<p><cite>Guest article by <a href='http://www.technosailor.com/'>Aaron Brazell</a></cite></p>
<p>WordPress 2.1 is almost here and you know what that means for developers. Itâ€™s time to pull out those old plugins youâ€™ve had stashed, blow off the dust and start applying some spit and polish and make sure it will last longer than Grandmaâ€™s Ham and Bean soup that has been sitting in the refrigerator for weeks.</p>
<p>Many of the big changes in WordPress 2.1 are MySQL related so grab a pen and paper (or open Notepad) and start taking notes.</p>
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<li>The <code>$table*</code> variables have all been eliminated. They have not been deprecated as doing so would mean that the variables are still present but developers are no longer encouraged to use them. In this case, they have been removed from the core. When you&#8217;re developing plugins that contain SQL statements, ensure you globalize <code>$wpdb</code>, and call tables using <code>$wpdb->posts</code>, <code>$wpdb->post2cat</code>, etc. Likewise, the former <code>$table_prefix</code> variable that developers could globalize before to find the MySQL table prefix defined in <code>wp-config.php</code> has also been deprecated in favor of <code>$wpdb->prefix</code>.</li>
<li>Developers using the former linkcategories table should be aware that link categories are now part of categories. They are simply given another category ID and are not maintained separate from post categories.</li>
<li>The posts table now has a column of <code>post_type</code> that should help developers distinguish between posts and pages.</li>
<li>Future posts now gain the <code>post_status</code> of &#8216;future&#8217; which eliminates the use of <code>NOW()</code> in all queries in the core. Plugin developers should follow suit.</li>
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<p>WordPress 2.1 is nearing the time when the codebase will be released for testing, but it&#8217;s not too early to get those plugins and themes tweaked for the release. There is a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Spencerp/2.1alpha3_Plugin_Compatibility">Codex page</a> where plugin compatibility is being tracked as well.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> If you stick to the WP APIs as much as possible you won&#8217;t run into plugin upgrade issues like this.</p>
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<p>WordPress 2.1 is almost here and you know what that means for developers. Itâ€™s time to pull out those old plugins youâ€™ve had stashed, blow off the dust and start applying some spit and polish and make sure it will last longer than Grandmaâ€™s Ham and Bean soup that has been sitting in the refrigerator for weeks.</p>
<p>Many of the big changes in WordPress 2.1 are MySQL related so grab a pen and paper (or open Notepad) and start taking notes.</p>
<ul>
<li>The <code>$table*</code> variables have all been eliminated. They have not been deprecated as doing so would mean that the variables are still present but developers are no longer encouraged to use them. In this case, they have been removed from the core. When you&#8217;re developing plugins that contain SQL statements, ensure you globalize <code>$wpdb</code>, and call tables using <code>$wpdb->posts</code>, <code>$wpdb->post2cat</code>, etc. Likewise, the former <code>$table_prefix</code> variable that developers could globalize before to find the MySQL table prefix defined in <code>wp-config.php</code> has also been deprecated in favor of <code>$wpdb->prefix</code>.</li>
<li>Developers using the former linkcategories table should be aware that link categories are now part of categories. They are simply given another category ID and are not maintained separate from post categories.</li>
<li>The posts table now has a column of <code>post_type</code> that should help developers distinguish between posts and pages.</li>
<li>Future posts now gain the <code>post_status</code> of &#8216;future&#8217; which eliminates the use of <code>NOW()</code> in all queries in the core. Plugin developers should follow suit.</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress 2.1 is nearing the time when the codebase will be released for testing, but it&#8217;s not too early to get those plugins and themes tweaked for the release. There is a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Spencerp/2.1alpha3_Plugin_Compatibility">Codex page</a> where plugin compatibility is being tracked as well.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> If you stick to the WP APIs as much as possible you won&#8217;t run into plugin upgrade issues like this.</p>
";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:23:"WordPress 2.0.5 - Ronan";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/205-ronan/";s:8:"comments";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/205-ronan/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:17:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:51:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/205-ronan/";s:11:"description";s:360:"It&#8217;s new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, is available for download immediately, and we suggest everyone upgrade as this includes security fixes. We&#8217;re breaking the tradition of naming releases after jazz musicians to congratulate Ryan Boren on his new son (and first WP baby) [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1327:"<p>It&#8217;s new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">is available for download immediately</a>, and we suggest everyone upgrade as this includes security fixes. We&#8217;re breaking the tradition of naming releases after jazz musicians to congratulate Ryan Boren on his new son (and first WP baby) Ronan.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s new? We have about 50 or so bugfixes, which you <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;milestone=2.0.5">can review on our dev tracker here</a>, mostly minor bug fixes around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization. If you&#8217;d like a nitty-gritty view, check out <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/changes-in-wordpress-205/">Mark&#8217;s blog post on the changes</a>.</p>
<p>Like every release this was the result of a lot of people in the WordPress community, and I&#8217;d like to thank all our contributors and testers including Mustlive, Peter Westwood, and Robert Deaton. This is also the first release handled by our new 2.0 maintainer, Mark Jaquith. He joins myself and Ryan with commit access and is &#8220;committed&#8221; to keeping the 2.0 base stable as we head into the exciting new 2.1 world. Congrats to Mark</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:56:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/205-ronan/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:360:"It&#8217;s new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, is available for download immediately, and we suggest everyone upgrade as this includes security fixes. We&#8217;re breaking the tradition of naming releases after jazz musicians to congratulate Ryan Boren on his new son (and first WP baby) [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1327:"<p>It&#8217;s new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">is available for download immediately</a>, and we suggest everyone upgrade as this includes security fixes. We&#8217;re breaking the tradition of naming releases after jazz musicians to congratulate Ryan Boren on his new son (and first WP baby) Ronan.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s new? We have about 50 or so bugfixes, which you <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;milestone=2.0.5">can review on our dev tracker here</a>, mostly minor bug fixes around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization. If you&#8217;d like a nitty-gritty view, check out <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/changes-in-wordpress-205/">Mark&#8217;s blog post on the changes</a>.</p>
<p>Like every release this was the result of a lot of people in the WordPress community, and I&#8217;d like to thank all our contributors and testers including Mustlive, Peter Westwood, and Robert Deaton. This is also the first release handled by our new 2.0 maintainer, Mark Jaquith. He joins myself and Ryan with commit access and is &#8220;committed&#8221; to keeping the 2.0 base stable as we head into the exciting new 2.1 world. Congrats to Mark</p>
";}i:2;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:18:"MU 1.0 and bbPress";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/mu-and-bbpress/";s:8:"comments";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/mu-and-bbpress/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:54:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:26:"DevelopmentReleasesGeneral";s:4:"guid";s:56:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/mu-and-bbpress/";s:11:"description";s:349:"The WordPress family has been really starting to grow lately. I wanted to let you guys know about two big releases: WordPress Multi-user 1.0 and bbPress 0.72.
WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. It&#8217;s the software that powers WordPress.com, for [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1846:"<p>The WordPress family has been really starting to grow lately. I wanted to let you guys know about two big releases: WordPress Multi-user 1.0 and bbPress 0.72.</p>
<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. It&#8217;s the software that powers <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, for example. MU has been in heavy development for about a year now, and we&#8217;ve finally polished it up to a place where we feel like it&#8217;s ready for public consumption. Since setup is a bit more complex than the 5-minute install of regular WordPress, MU is best suited for a more server-savvy audience. You can <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">download it on the WordPress MU site</a>. </p>
<p>Second I wanted to introduce an old friend you are all probably familiar with from our support forums, <a href="http://bbpress.org/">bbPress</a>. bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, Akismet spam protection, AJAX interaction, but the team focused the most on creating something fast and light. bbPress can power a forum with hundreds of thousands of posts with just a fraction of the load as WordPress. (If we could re-write WP from scratch, it would be a lot like bbPress.) What is probably most compelling for WordPress users, though, is that bbPress supports complete user and login integration with WP.</p>
<p>bbPress is not quite 1.0 yet, some of you may recognize the 0.72 version number from the early days of WordPress, but if you&#8217;re searching for a little something fresh in forum software, try <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">downloading bbPress</a> and giving it a go.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:61:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/mu-and-bbpress/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:349:"The WordPress family has been really starting to grow lately. I wanted to let you guys know about two big releases: WordPress Multi-user 1.0 and bbPress 0.72.
WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. It&#8217;s the software that powers WordPress.com, for [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1846:"<p>The WordPress family has been really starting to grow lately. I wanted to let you guys know about two big releases: WordPress Multi-user 1.0 and bbPress 0.72.</p>
<p><a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a> is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. It&#8217;s the software that powers <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, for example. MU has been in heavy development for about a year now, and we&#8217;ve finally polished it up to a place where we feel like it&#8217;s ready for public consumption. Since setup is a bit more complex than the 5-minute install of regular WordPress, MU is best suited for a more server-savvy audience. You can <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/download/">download it on the WordPress MU site</a>. </p>
<p>Second I wanted to introduce an old friend you are all probably familiar with from our support forums, <a href="http://bbpress.org/">bbPress</a>. bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, Akismet spam protection, AJAX interaction, but the team focused the most on creating something fast and light. bbPress can power a forum with hundreds of thousands of posts with just a fraction of the load as WordPress. (If we could re-write WP from scratch, it would be a lot like bbPress.) What is probably most compelling for WordPress users, though, is that bbPress supports complete user and login integration with WP.</p>
<p>bbPress is not quite 1.0 yet, some of you may recognize the 0.72 version number from the early days of WordPress, but if you&#8217;re searching for a little something fresh in forum software, try <a href="http://bbpress.org/download/">downloading bbPress</a> and giving it a go.</p>
";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.0.4";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/07/wordpress-204/";s:8:"comments";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/07/wordpress-204/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:31:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:27:"DevelopmentReleasesSecurity";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/07/wordpress-204/";s:11:"description";s:373:"WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it&#8217;s highly recommended for all users. We&#8217;ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it&#8217;s a pretty solid release across the board.
Upgrading is fairly simple, just overwrite your [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:932:"<p>WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">available for immediate download</a>. This release contains several important security fixes, so it&#8217;s highly recommended for all users. We&#8217;ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it&#8217;s a pretty solid release across the board.</p>
<p>Upgrading is fairly simple, just overwrite your old files with the latest from the download. If you&#8217;d like more thorough instructions, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">the Codex</a> is always the best spot.</p>
<p>Since this is a security release, if you have any friends with blogs make sure to remind them to upgrade and lend a hand if they&#8217;re not too savvy. We&#8217;re all in this together.</p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://veryeasy.ca/">Geoff</a> and <a href="http://txfx.net/">Mark Jaquith</a> for identifying.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/07/wordpress-204/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:373:"WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it&#8217;s hi	�1166059839����������²��5������YÔ†�E�������$rss_867bd5c64f85878d03a060509cd2f92c���m�R�;����� †�F�������'rss_867bd5c64f85878d03a060509cd2f92c_ts���
���[ø�����¶�O:9:"MagpieRSS":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: Spam Floods Pissing me off!";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/13/spam-floods-pissing-me-off/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/61025932/";s:11:"description";s:773:"<p>This recent trend of almost DOS like spam floods is really starting to tick me off. Akismet seems to be doing its job but the BOT just keeps asking for wp-comments.php even though it is not allowed to post a comment. The IPs, as usual, are very different in each query and the attacks have all the signs of a new bot farm with a new script that just does not want to take no for an answer.</p>
<p>Now before I write something myself, is there a plugin out there that gleams off IPs from commenters that are getting refused (for posting too often, or as spam from akismet) and then appends them to your htaccess? I know something existed for Akismet and htaccess but I also rememeber it being very touchy.</p>
<p>I might whip something up this weekend. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
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<p>Now before I write something myself, is there a plugin out there that gleams off IPs from commenters that are getting refused (for posting too often, or as spam from akismet) and then appends them to your htaccess? I know something existed for Akismet and htaccess but I also rememeber it being very touchy.</p>
<p>I might whip something up this weekend. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
</p>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Alex King: Building alexking.org 2.0, part 7: Plugins";s:4:"guid";s:74:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/13/building-alexkingorg-20-part-7-plugins";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/13/lots-of-plugins";s:11:"description";s:9353:"<p class="banner"><strong>Note:</strong> This is the seventh in a <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/02/building-v2-part1">series of articles</a> about the building of alexking.org 2.0.</p>
<p>One of the great strengths of <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> is its plugin system. In the upcoming 2.1 release, there is very little you can&#8217;t do as a drop-in plugin. This makes it easy to use WordPress as a CMS and keep your customizations separate from the main codeline; which in turn simplifies upgrades and maintenance.</p>
<p>I used the plugin architecture extensively to customize WordPress as I wanted it for my new site. Almost all of the functionality I added was done as plugins - many of which I&#8217;ve already released, others are still being polished for release.</p>
<p>I currently have <em>23</em> active plugins, and that doesn&#8217;t include my 404 Notifier plugin or <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org" rel="external">Dougal</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/08/30/text-filter-suite" rel="external">Talk Like a Pirate plugin</a> (both of which I activate as needed).</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s easiest to just go through them as a list. Anything that isn&#8217;t linked is probably available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress plugins page</a> (I&#8217;ve tried to note exceptions).</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>404 Notifier</strong> - this was written by me for my new site. It logs 404 (file not found) errors to help you fix them. This one is no longer active.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/" rel="external">Admin Drop Down Menu</a></strong> - written by Ozh, this is a great time saver.</li>
<li><strong>AK Custom Code</strong> - this was written by me for my new site. It includes the URL and query handling stuff to keep my <a href="http://alexking.org/sports/golf">golf blog</a> separate from my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog">main blog</a>, custom template functions, ad handling code and a bunch of other misc. little stuff. This one isn&#8217;t released.</li>
<li><strong>Articles</strong> - this was written by me for my new site. It allows you to choose posts to highlight outside of the normal blog chronology. You can see it in action on my <a href="http://alexking.org/articles">articles page</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/" rel="external">Do Follow</a></strong> - written by Kimmo Suominen. This turns off the &#8216;nofollow&#8217; on your comment links after a certain period of time.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/" rel="external">Google Sitemaps</a></strong> - written by Arne Brachhold. Create a sitemap of your WordPress content, suitable for submitting to Google, Yahoo and MSN.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://kashou.net/blog/inline-ajax-comments" rel="external">Inline AJAX Comments</a></strong> - written by Peter Kashou. This is the plugin that loads the comments below the post on the home page, etc. I made a number of changes to this for my needs, at some point I might get around to making it both IE friendly and generic enough that I can send changes back to Peter.</li>
<li><strong>Last Modified Function</strong> - written by me a while ago. This simply shows the last modified date/time of a page.</li>
<li><strong>Limit Posts to Parent Category</strong> - written by me for my new site, based on <a href="http://boren.nu" rel="external">Ryan Boren</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/front-page-cats/" rel="external">Front Page Cats plugin</a>. This is the main SQL filtering for separating the golf blog from the main blog. It&#8217;s heavily customized for my site and isn&#8217;t suitable for release.</li>
<li><strong>Link Harvest</strong> - written by me for my new site. This creates a links list from the links in your content. You can see it in action on my <a href="http://alexking.org/links">links page</a>. I&#8217;ve been working for the last few weeks to get it ready to release.</li>
<li><strong>Link Mojo</strong> - written by me for my new site. This is some basic link blog functionality, working the way I wanted it to. I&#8217;ve just about got it ready for release.</li>
<li><strong>Old Post Alert</strong> - written by me for my new site. This shows a banner in the comments area indicating the age of the post being commented on and encouraging commentors to look in the more recent posts to see if their comment is still relevant.</li>
<li><strong>Page Friendly Excerpts</strong> - written by me for my <a href="http://kingdesign.net">King Design web site</a>. This creates excerpts on the fly for all posts and pages so that I can show them all together in my search results. Very simple, but I could release it if there is demand.</li>
<li><strong>Popularity Contest</strong> - written by me a year or so ago. This tracks which of your posts are most popular based on your visitor&#8217;s interaction with your site.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://dancameron.org/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/search-everything-wordpress-plugin/" rel="external">Search Everything</a></strong> - written by <a href="http://dancameron.org/" rel="external">Dan Cameron</a>, updated to WordPress 2.1 compatibility by me. This plugin allows searches to include content from pages, comments, etc. as well as just posts.</li>
<li><strong>Share This</strong> - written by me for my new site. This wraps the &#8220;post to social site&#8221; and &#8220;e-mail to someone&#8221; functionality in a single friendly link.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcut Macros</strong> - written by me for my new site. This allows you to define little snippets to be expanded as longer text strings. It&#8217;s great for the lazy. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> I expect to have this released pretty soon.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/" rel="external">Spam Karma 2</a></strong> - written by <a href="http://unknowngenius.com/blog/" rel="external">dr. Dave</a>. <a href="http://gfmorris.net/" rel="external">Geof Morris</a> recommended this to me a while back, it does a pretty good job.</li>
<li><strong>Title Reverser</strong> - written by me for my new site. This reverses all aspects of the page title in WordPress. There are similar plugins out there already, so I don&#8217;t plan to release this one.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Mobile Edition</strong> - updated by me for my new site. This presents a mobile-friendly version of your site to visitors on cell phones, PDAs and other handheld devices.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://firasd.org/studio/wp/wp-cc" rel="external">WP-CC</a></strong> - written by <a href="http://firasd.org/" rel="external">Firas Durri</a>. This adds a machine readable <a href="http://creativecommons.org" rel="external">Creative Commons</a> license to each of my pages. Development on this plugin is dead and it has been superseded by <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/WpLicense" rel="external">WpLicense</a>. However WP-CC worked exactly as I wanted it to, so I&#8217;m using it instead.</li>
<li><strong>WP Photos</strong> - updated by me for my new site. This is the system I use to manage adding images I&#8217;m hosting on this server to my blog posts. There are lots of other photo gallery plugins out there now, so I do not have plans to release this again.</li>
<li><strong>WP Since Last Visit</strong> - updated by me for my new site. This shows the little &#8216;New&#8217; indicator by new posts and comments. I&#8217;ve got the old version available for download still, but the installation steps will probably keep me from releasing the new version. People had a really hard time with similar requirements when I first released Share This and I got a lot of rude e-mail as a result of the installation frustration.</li>
<li><strong>WP Unformatted</strong> - written by me a <em>long</em> time ago. This turns off the default WordPress auto-formatting on a per-post/page basis.</li>
</ul>
<p>Whew - that&#8217;s a lot of plugins! Is it too many? How many is too many? I&#8217;ll try to cover that next time.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2568&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2568" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<p>One of the great strengths of <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="external">WordPress</a> is its plugin system. In the upcoming 2.1 release, there is very little you can&#8217;t do as a drop-in plugin. This makes it easy to use WordPress as a CMS and keep your customizations separate from the main codeline; which in turn simplifies upgrades and maintenance.</p>
<p>I used the plugin architecture extensively to customize WordPress as I wanted it for my new site. Almost all of the functionality I added was done as plugins - many of which I&#8217;ve already released, others are still being polished for release.</p>
<p>I currently have <em>23</em> active plugins, and that doesn&#8217;t include my 404 Notifier plugin or <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org" rel="external">Dougal</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/08/30/text-filter-suite" rel="external">Talk Like a Pirate plugin</a> (both of which I activate as needed).</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s easiest to just go through them as a list. Anything that isn&#8217;t linked is probably available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress plugins page</a> (I&#8217;ve tried to note exceptions).</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>404 Notifier</strong> - this was written by me for my new site. It logs 404 (file not found) errors to help you fix them. This one is no longer active.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/" rel="external">Admin Drop Down Menu</a></strong> - written by Ozh, this is a great time saver.</li>
<li><strong>AK Custom Code</strong> - this was written by me for my new site. It includes the URL and query handling stuff to keep my <a href="http://alexking.org/sports/golf">golf blog</a> separate from my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog">main blog</a>, custom template functions, ad handling code and a bunch of other misc. little stuff. This one isn&#8217;t released.</li>
<li><strong>Articles</strong> - this was written by me for my new site. It allows you to choose posts to highlight outside of the normal blog chronology. You can see it in action on my <a href="http://alexking.org/articles">articles page</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/" rel="external">Do Follow</a></strong> - written by Kimmo Suominen. This turns off the &#8216;nofollow&#8217; on your comment links after a certain period of time.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/" rel="external">Google Sitemaps</a></strong> - written by Arne Brachhold. Create a sitemap of your WordPress content, suitable for submitting to Google, Yahoo and MSN.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://kashou.net/blog/inline-ajax-comments" rel="external">Inline AJAX Comments</a></strong> - written by Peter Kashou. This is the plugin that loads the comments below the post on the home page, etc. I made a number of changes to this for my needs, at some point I might get around to making it both IE friendly and generic enough that I can send changes back to Peter.</li>
<li><strong>Last Modified Function</strong> - written by me a while ago. This simply shows the last modified date/time of a page.</li>
<li><strong>Limit Posts to Parent Category</strong> - written by me for my new site, based on <a href="http://boren.nu" rel="external">Ryan Boren</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/front-page-cats/" rel="external">Front Page Cats plugin</a>. This is the main SQL filtering for separating the golf blog from the main blog. It&#8217;s heavily customized for my site and isn&#8217;t suitable for release.</li>
<li><strong>Link Harvest</strong> - written by me for my new site. This creates a links list from the links in your content. You can see it in action on my <a href="http://alexking.org/links">links page</a>. I&#8217;ve been working for the last few weeks to get it ready to release.</li>
<li><strong>Link Mojo</strong> - written by me for my new site. This is some basic link blog functionality, working the way I wanted it to. I&#8217;ve just about got it ready for release.</li>
<li><strong>Old Post Alert</strong> - written by me for my new site. This shows a banner in the comments area indicating the age of the post being commented on and encouraging commentors to look in the more recent posts to see if their comment is still relevant.</li>
<li><strong>Page Friendly Excerpts</strong> - written by me for my <a href="http://kingdesign.net">King Design web site</a>. This creates excerpts on the fly for all posts and pages so that I can show them all together in my search results. Very simple, but I could release it if there is demand.</li>
<li><strong>Popularity Contest</strong> - written by me a year or so ago. This tracks which of your posts are most popular based on your visitor&#8217;s interaction with your site.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://dancameron.org/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/search-everything-wordpress-plugin/" rel="external">Search Everything</a></strong> - written by <a href="http://dancameron.org/" rel="external">Dan Cameron</a>, updated to WordPress 2.1 compatibility by me. This plugin allows searches to include content from pages, comments, etc. as well as just posts.</li>
<li><strong>Share This</strong> - written by me for my new site. This wraps the &#8220;post to social site&#8221; and &#8220;e-mail to someone&#8221; functionality in a single friendly link.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcut Macros</strong> - written by me for my new site. This allows you to define little snippets to be expanded as longer text strings. It&#8217;s great for the lazy. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> I expect to have this released pretty soon.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/" rel="external">Spam Karma 2</a></strong> - written by <a href="http://unknowngenius.com/blog/" rel="external">dr. Dave</a>. <a href="http://gfmorris.net/" rel="external">Geof Morris</a> recommended this to me a while back, it does a pretty good job.</li>
<li><strong>Title Reverser</strong> - written by me for my new site. This reverses all aspects of the page title in WordPress. There are similar plugins out there already, so I don&#8217;t plan to release this one.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Mobile Edition</strong> - updated by me for my new site. This presents a mobile-friendly version of your site to visitors on cell phones, PDAs and other handheld devices.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://firasd.org/studio/wp/wp-cc" rel="external">WP-CC</a></strong> - written by <a href="http://firasd.org/" rel="external">Firas Durri</a>. This adds a machine readable <a href="http://creativecommons.org" rel="external">Creative Commons</a> license to each of my pages. Development on this plugin is dead and it has been superseded by <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/WpLicense" rel="external">WpLicense</a>. However WP-CC worked exactly as I wanted it to, so I&#8217;m using it instead.</li>
<li><strong>WP Photos</strong> - updated by me for my new site. This is the system I use to manage adding images I&#8217;m hosting on this server to my blog posts. There are lots of other photo gallery plugins out there now, so I do not have plans to release this again.</li>
<li><strong>WP Since Last Visit</strong> - updated by me for my new site. This shows the little &#8216;New&#8217; indicator by new posts and comments. I&#8217;ve got the old version available for download still, but the installation steps will probably keep me from releasing the new version. People had a really hard time with similar requirements when I first released Share This and I got a lot of rude e-mail as a result of the installation frustration.</li>
<li><strong>WP Unformatted</strong> - written by me a <em>long</em> time ago. This turns off the default WordPress auto-formatting on a per-post/page basis.</li>
</ul>
<p>Whew - that&#8217;s a lot of plugins! Is it too many? How many is too many? I&#8217;ll try to cover that next time.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2568&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2568" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<p><strong>Last date for sending in an entry to the competition is the 14th of January, 2007</strong>. If you are sending in an entry and it needs to be formatted with bullets and paragraphs, please do me a favor and copy and paste the HTML into a text file and attach it to your email.</p>
<p>In addition, if anyone is willing to sponsor the competition or add some money/gifts the &lt;sarcasm&gt; already huge pile of prizes &lt;/sarcasm&gt;, it would be much appreciated. Just send me an email if interested.</p>
<p>For those interested in metrics, approximately 10,000 people have viewed the various entries in the competition and about 120 votes have been casted. Approximately 8000 people have clicked on the authors&#8217; links and I have received a few less than 50 emails from various interested parties. I hope the deadline extension generates some more interest and will bring much more attention to the participants. Good luck and enjoy.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:45:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:1322:"<p>Since there have been only six entries in the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">Blogging Essay Competition</a> and I have received numerous requests to extend the competition due to the holidays (my MBA professors are being extremely kind as well), the Essay Competition deadline will be extended.</p>
<p><strong>Last date for sending in an entry to the competition is the 14th of January, 2007</strong>. If you are sending in an entry and it needs to be formatted with bullets and paragraphs, please do me a favor and copy and paste the HTML into a text file and attach it to your email.</p>
<p>In addition, if anyone is willing to sponsor the competition or add some money/gifts the &lt;sarcasm&gt; already huge pile of prizes &lt;/sarcasm&gt;, it would be much appreciated. Just send me an email if interested.</p>
<p>For those interested in metrics, approximately 10,000 people have viewed the various entries in the competition and about 120 votes have been casted. Approximately 8000 people have clicked on the authors&#8217; links and I have received a few less than 50 emails from various interested parties. I hope the deadline extension generates some more interest and will bring much more attention to the participants. Good luck and enjoy.
</p>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Plugin: jsPgnViewer";s:4:"guid";s:75:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/13/wp-plugin-jspgnviewer/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/60906898/";s:11:"description";s:272:"<p><a href="http://tom.jabber.ee/chess/index.php?n=Main.WpPlugin">WP Plugin: jsPgnViewer</a> If you are an avid chess player, this might just be up your alley. Use this plugin to post your chess game (via PGN) to your blog so your readers can interactively play along.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:30:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:272:"<p><a href="http://tom.jabber.ee/chess/index.php?n=Main.WpPlugin">WP Plugin: jsPgnViewer</a> If you are an avid chess player, this might just be up your alley. Use this plugin to post your chess game (via PGN) to your blog so your readers can interactively play along.</p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Plugin: WP e-Commerce Lite";s:4:"guid";s:84:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/13/wp-plugin-wp-e-commerce-lite-2/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/60899094/";s:11:"description";s:458:"<p><a href="http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce">WP Plugin: WP e-Commerce Lite</a> WP eCommerce Lite is a full featured shopping cart plugin for Wordpress with a whole world of features. The latest version 3 Beta has a whole list of new features including better shipping options, purchase log RSS feed, multiple payment options, product options and use of Lightbox. Dan also offer a paid Gold version for those looking for even more advanced features. </p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:15:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:458:"<p><a href="http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce">WP Plugin: WP e-Commerce Lite</a> WP eCommerce Lite is a full featured shopping cart plugin for Wordpress with a whole world of features. The latest version 3 Beta has a whole list of new features including better shipping options, purchase log RSS feed, multiple payment options, product options and use of Lightbox. Dan also offer a paid Gold version for those looking for even more advanced features. </p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Alex King: Thatâ€™s Gratitude";s:4:"guid";s:51:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/12/thats-gratitude";s:4:"link";s:51:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/12/thats-gratitude";s:11:"description";s:2236:"<p>Wow - I just had one of the most unpleasant exchanges of my life with a lady (who shall remain unnamed) at <a href="http://anubismarketing.com" rel="external">Anubis Marketing</a>. I mean, this was completely surreal.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s trying to convert a Moveable Type blog to WordPress for one of her customers, and since she &#8220;doesn&#8217;t know anything about Moveable Type&#8221; (her words), she doesn&#8217;t understand how to use the MT to WP redirect template I released.</p>
<p>Her position is that since I&#8217;ve released this, I am responsible for hand-holding anyone through the implementation of the template. Not only that, but offering to provide help as a contract gig is &#8220;sneaky&#8221; and that:</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll just make sure people are well aware of your process before ever again directing them to your site.</p>
<p>Either that or I&#8217;ll find someone who does offer full support on the things they create and hand out for free. I prefer integrity in the people I choose to work with and promote.</p></blockquote>
<p>I get this kind of attitude from people every once in a while - but I never understand it.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2584&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2584" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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	-->";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:34:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:2236:"<p>Wow - I just had one of the most unpleasant exchanges of my life with a lady (who shall remain unnamed) at <a href="http://anubismarketing.com" rel="external">Anubis Marketing</a>. I mean, this was completely surreal.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s trying to convert a Moveable Type blog to WordPress for one of her customers, and since she &#8220;doesn&#8217;t know anything about Moveable Type&#8221; (her words), she doesn&#8217;t understand how to use the MT to WP redirect template I released.</p>
<p>Her position is that since I&#8217;ve released this, I am responsible for hand-holding anyone through the implementation of the template. Not only that, but offering to provide help as a contract gig is &#8220;sneaky&#8221; and that:</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll just make sure people are well aware of your process before ever again directing them to your site.</p>
<p>Either that or I&#8217;ll find someone who does offer full support on the things they create and hand out for free. I prefer integrity in the people I choose to work with and promote.</p></blockquote>
<p>I get this kind of attitude from people every once in a while - but I never understand it.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2584&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2584" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<ol>
<li>Support for a Share This link in feeds via a custom page that presents the Share This information along with the post content. This also works for mobile visitors and visitors that have JavaScript disabled in their browser.</li>
<li>The addition of the Share Icon to the link - on by default.</li>
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<p>Here is a screenshot of the Share This custom page:</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/312774663/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/99/312774663_549bf65445_m.jpg" width="233" height="240" alt="Share This Page" /></a></p>
<p>This screenshot has some of my own custom styling that I applied through the &#8216;akst_head&#8217; hook (which I added to allow you to customize/override the CSS of the Share This page via plugin).</p>
<p>The icon is, of course, the icon from the <a href="http://shareicons.com">Share Icon project</a> (which I <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/11/shareiconscom">launched the web site for yesterday</a>).</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to thank the folks that sent in a <a href="http://alexking.org/donate">donation</a> after my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/06/articles-10">little plea when I released my Articles plugin</a>. When I receive a few donations like this, it makes it much easier to spend the time necessary to package up these plugins and make them freely available. Any little amount is appreciated - perhaps I should try resurrecting the <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2003/07/16/1-per-download-vs-donationware">$1 donation for each download</a> concept again. I still think that&#8217;s an idea that could work. If even a fraction of folks who download would do it, it would work out well for everyone.</p>
<p>The download is available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2581&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2581" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<ol>
<li>Support for a Share This link in feeds via a custom page that presents the Share This information along with the post content. This also works for mobile visitors and visitors that have JavaScript disabled in their browser.</li>
<li>The addition of the Share Icon to the link - on by default.</li>
</ol>
<p>Here is a screenshot of the Share This custom page:</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/312774663/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/99/312774663_549bf65445_m.jpg" width="233" height="240" alt="Share This Page" /></a></p>
<p>This screenshot has some of my own custom styling that I applied through the &#8216;akst_head&#8217; hook (which I added to allow you to customize/override the CSS of the Share This page via plugin).</p>
<p>The icon is, of course, the icon from the <a href="http://shareicons.com">Share Icon project</a> (which I <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/11/shareiconscom">launched the web site for yesterday</a>).</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to thank the folks that sent in a <a href="http://alexking.org/donate">donation</a> after my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/06/articles-10">little plea when I released my Articles plugin</a>. When I receive a few donations like this, it makes it much easier to spend the time necessary to package up these plugins and make them freely available. Any little amount is appreciated - perhaps I should try resurrecting the <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2003/07/16/1-per-download-vs-donationware">$1 donation for each download</a> concept again. I still think that&#8217;s an idea that could work. If even a fraction of folks who download would do it, it would work out well for everyone.</p>
<p>The download is available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2581&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2581" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:00:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:686:"<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2006_web_technology_trends.php">2006 Web Technology Trends</a> An essay on web technology trends with some large generalizations, some major points and some minors thoughts from McManus. Whenever I see an article like this, I would also like to see some revenue numbers associated with each entry. Though Google was mentioned quite a few times throughout the article, there was no mention of Google&#8217;s stock prices or its market cap (which I think are very valid). Also, it would be very interesting to create a heat map of this article to see which phrases/names/buzzwords were used the most in describing tech trends in 2006.
</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:15:"Matt: Iconistan";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/11/iconistan/";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/11/iconistan/";s:11:"description";s:102:"<p>Tony Conrad muses on <a href="http://sphere.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/iconistan/">Iconistan</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:51:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:102:"<p>Tony Conrad muses on <a href="http://sphere.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/iconistan/">Iconistan</a>.</p>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: On Simplicity";s:4:"guid";s:46:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/11/on-simplicity/";s:4:"link";s:46:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/11/on-simplicity/";s:11:"description";s:184:"<p><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/09.html">Joel</a> and <a href="http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html">Don</a> share thoughts about simplicity.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:07:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:184:"<p><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/09.html">Joel</a> and <a href="http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html">Don</a> share thoughts about simplicity.</p>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Theme: Adventure";s:4:"guid";s:72:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/11/wp-theme-adventure/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/59915126/";s:11:"description";s:678:"<p><a href="http://www.wpthemegallery.com/adventure-wordpress-theme/">WP Theme: Adventure</a> Two column, large header, dark on light theme for Wordpress with a travel theme. I like the passport stamp background and the Indiana Jones lookalike on the header. Original theme by <a href="http://www.redflystudios.com/">RedFly</a>. Since WPThemeGallery offers the theme for download from their site (among many others), I am not sure if this is a copyright violation or the author allows the distribution. Consequently, I am somewhat unsure of distributing it. If anyone has information on WPThemeGallery, please let me know. I will take the link(s) down if there is a problem.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:15:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:678:"<p><a href="http://www.wpthemegallery.com/adventure-wordpress-theme/">WP Theme: Adventure</a> Two column, large header, dark on light theme for Wordpress with a travel theme. I like the passport stamp background and the Indiana Jones lookalike on the header. Original theme by <a href="http://www.redflystudios.com/">RedFly</a>. Since WPThemeGallery offers the theme for download from their site (among many others), I am not sure if this is a copyright violation or the author allows the distribution. Consequently, I am somewhat unsure of distributing it. If anyone has information on WPThemeGallery, please let me know. I will take the link(s) down if there is a problem.</p>";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Dev Blog: Is your plugin Naughty or Nice?";s:4:"guid";s:57:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/12/naughty-or-nice/";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/12/naughty-or-nice/";s:11:"description";s:2284:"<p><cite>Guest article by <a href="http://www.technosailor.com/">Aaron Brazell</a></cite></p>
<p>WordPress 2.1 is almost here and you know what that means for developers. Itâ€™s time to pull out those old plugins youâ€™ve had stashed, blow off the dust and start applying some spit and polish and make sure it will last longer than Grandmaâ€™s Ham and Bean soup that has been sitting in the refrigerator for weeks.</p>
<p>Many of the big changes in WordPress 2.1 are MySQL related so grab a pen and paper (or open Notepad) and start taking notes.</p>
<ul>
<li>The <code>$table*</code> variables have all been eliminated. They have not been deprecated as doing so would mean that the variables are still present but developers are no longer encouraged to use them. In this case, they have been removed from the core. When you&#8217;re developing plugins that contain SQL statements, ensure you globalize <code>$wpdb</code>, and call tables using <code>$wpdb->posts</code>, <code>$wpdb->post2cat</code>, etc. Likewise, the former <code>$table_prefix</code> variable that developers could globalize before to find the MySQL table prefix defined in <code>wp-config.php</code> has also been deprecated in favor of <code>$wpdb->prefix</code>.</li>
<li>Developers using the former linkcategories table should be aware that link categories are now part of categories. They are simply given another category ID and are not maintained separate from post categories.</li>
<li>The posts table now has a column of <code>post_type</code> that should help developers distinguish between posts and pages.</li>
<li>Future posts now gain the <code>post_status</code> of &#8216;future&#8217; which eliminates the use of <code>NOW()</code> in all queries in the core. Plugin developers should follow suit.</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress 2.1 is nearing the time when the codebase will be released for testing, but it&#8217;s not too early to get those plugins and themes tweaked for the release. There is a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Spencerp/2.1alpha3_Plugin_Compatibility">Codex page</a> where plugin compatibility is being tracked as well.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> If you stick to the WP APIs as much as possible you won&#8217;t run into plugin upgrade issues like this.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:11:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:2284:"<p><cite>Guest article by <a href="http://www.technosailor.com/">Aaron Brazell</a></cite></p>
<p>WordPress 2.1 is almost here and you know what that means for developers. Itâ€™s time to pull out those old plugins youâ€™ve had stashed, blow off the dust and start applying some spit and polish and make sure it will last longer than Grandmaâ€™s Ham and Bean soup that has been sitting in the refrigerator for weeks.</p>
<p>Many of the big changes in WordPress 2.1 are MySQL related so grab a pen and paper (or open Notepad) and start taking notes.</p>
<ul>
<li>The <code>$table*</code> variables have all been eliminated. They have not been deprecated as doing so would mean that the variables are still present but developers are no longer encouraged to use them. In this case, they have been removed from the core. When you&#8217;re developing plugins that contain SQL statements, ensure you globalize <code>$wpdb</code>, and call tables using <code>$wpdb->posts</code>, <code>$wpdb->post2cat</code>, etc. Likewise, the former <code>$table_prefix</code> variable that developers could globalize before to find the MySQL table prefix defined in <code>wp-config.php</code> has also been deprecated in favor of <code>$wpdb->prefix</code>.</li>
<li>Developers using the former linkcategories table should be aware that link categories are now part of categories. They are simply given another category ID and are not maintained separate from post categories.</li>
<li>The posts table now has a column of <code>post_type</code> that should help developers distinguish between posts and pages.</li>
<li>Future posts now gain the <code>post_status</code> of &#8216;future&#8217; which eliminates the use of <code>NOW()</code> in all queries in the core. Plugin developers should follow suit.</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress 2.1 is nearing the time when the codebase will be released for testing, but it&#8217;s not too early to get those plugins and themes tweaked for the release. There is a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Spencerp/2.1alpha3_Plugin_Compatibility">Codex page</a> where plugin compatibility is being tracked as well.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> If you stick to the WP APIs as much as possible you won&#8217;t run into plugin upgrade issues like this.
</p>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Theme : The Hobbit";s:4:"guid";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/11/wp-theme-the-hobbit/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/59796640/";s:11:"description";s:230:"<p><a href="http://www.kaushalsheth.com/the-hobbit-wordpress-theme-released/">WP Theme: The Hobbit</a> is a single column Wordpress theme based on the character Hobbit made famous by Lord of the Rings movie. Its worth a look.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:14:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Kaushal";}s:7:"summary";s:230:"<p><a href="http://www.kaushalsheth.com/the-hobbit-wordpress-theme-released/">WP Theme: The Hobbit</a> is a single column Wordpress theme based on the character Hobbit made famous by Lord of the Rings movie. Its worth a look.
</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Weblog Tools Collection: Screencast on Editing a WP Theme";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/10/screencast-on-editing-a-wp-theme/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/59464065/";s:11:"description";s:369:"<p><a href="http://programming.learningnerd.com/intro-editing-wordpress-theme">Screencast on Editing a WP Theme</a> Screencast on various methods to edit a wordpress theme with a lot of examples of good looking Wordpress blogs. While you are at it, check out <a href="http://wpgarden.com/">Wordpress Garden</a> from Sadish. Boy those are some nicely designed blogs!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:18:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:369:"<p><a href="http://programming.learningnerd.com/intro-editing-wordpress-theme">Screencast on Editing a WP Theme</a> Screencast on various methods to edit a wordpress theme with a lot of examples of good looking Wordpress blogs. While you are at it, check out <a href="http://wpgarden.com/">Wordpress Garden</a> from Sadish. Boy those are some nicely designed blogs!</p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: Discernment in the Blogdom of God*";s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/10/discernment-in-the-blogdom-of-god/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/59454613/";s:11:"description";s:8383:"<p><small>This is the sixth entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki </small><small>from <a href="http://konicki.com/blog2/">Deacon&#8217;s Blog</a></small></p>
<h2>Discernment in the Blogdom of God*</h2>
<p>Or, can blogging make me a saint?</p>
<p>By Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki</p>
<p>The world of faith blogs is fascinating in its depth; and in what it, as a tool, can allow you to accomplish.</p>
<p>Faith blogging has unlocked the world of faith to seekers and researchers in levels unprecedented since the great efforts at Christian evangelization that occurred between the 15th and 18th century.</p>
<p>There are several aspects to this depth.</p>
<p><strong>The Personal and Public Nature of Faith Blogging</strong></p>
<p>As with any spiritual experience, the practice of blogging starts with oneself.  Whether you are a recent convert, on fire for the faith, or a wizened philosopher, the message of faith in the realm of blogs most directly relates to opening yourself up â€“ of sharing your personal faith journey.</p>
<p>Faith, at an essential level, is about fostering change.  It is about self reflection, your relationship to the world, your fellow man, and to the metaphysical reality that exists beyond you and me.</p>
<p>The journey of faith often begins with a conversion experience.  Whether one is a lifelong believer or new to faith, there is a moment at which the choice of faith, of believing, becomes real.   After that moment, that conversion experience, you have to decide what you are going to do with your newfound joy.</p>
<p>If the choice comes down to staying where you are, being what you are, or evolving, of what Orthodox Christianity calls Theosis â€“ coming into an ultimate unity with God (in a sense), the only choice is to evolve.   Blogging is an effective tool in that process.  It allows an opportunity to analyze where you have been and where you are going.  It becomes a journal of the soul&#8217;s journey.</p>
<p>These aspects, being open, sharing the faith journey, and allowing the faith journey lived publicly to enhance your opportunity for change (to ask essential questions) closely imitates the journey experienced by many of the most notable saints.   People like Francis, Paul, and Augustine all moved from where they were, through a conversion experience, to a public and open journey toward God.</p>
<p>Blogging the faith can be a component of the journey.  When asking, &#8220;How do I get there?&#8221; the examples of those men and women of faith shines though.   Their example is that of faith lived openly.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve often told people in my parish (and elsewhere) that children should be in church.  Of course some people hate the idea.   The feelings range from parents who say they can&#8217;t concentrate, to fellow parishioners who feel put upon by rowdy kids. Of course they are missing the point on several levels, but chief among them is that children, shuffled off to church quasi-daycare miss the whole experiential witness of the faithful.   They do not see mom and dad practicing the faith nor do they see the communal nature of church.</p>
<p>Even the most ascetic of the saints, the desert hermits, lived a life of public witness.</p>
<p>Blogging is part of that witness.  It is by nature communal (check out faith blogger com-boxes for the full impact of the community experience) and is public witness, up-front and out there.</p>
<p>Getting to where you should be in faith is not a new pursuit.  Over the centuries men entered monasteries, and women entered convents, in order to set aside the time and effort needed to discern their relationship to God and the world.   Some of that depth of experience, and no it is not exactly the same, is found in blogging.  Consider blogging as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shared community,</li>
<li>Shared struggles,</li>
<li>Self-evaluation (as both a mirror and as a progress chart)</li>
<li>An effort at focused prayer,</li>
<li>A process of examination and discernment.</li>
</ul>
<p>Indeed, essential elements of the discernment process exist in blogging.  Blogging is a communal process of self-discovery, and for us, self-discovery in faith.</p>
<p><strong>The Ecumenical Nature of Blogging</strong></p>
<p>Blogging, by its public nature, engages people of faith in dialog and, at a minimum, provides a level of understanding for each others perspectives.   It is ecumenical in its approach (can Word Press and MT users come together in understanding).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not fooled into thinking that religious blogging will break down all barriers (ever see a heated theological discussion on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque_clause">filioque</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation">transubstantiation</a>, or the role of the Pope in com-boxes) or miraculously result in the reunification of the divided flock.  But, in the end, blogging does at its seminal level open the door to understanding.   I know where my brothers and sisters are, why they believe what they do, and because of blogging&#8217;s unique presence, its currency, how they live it.  In that discovery I find levels and shades of commonality.</p>
<p><strong>Evangelizing and living it, and the risk of killing it</strong></p>
<p>As I noted earlier, faith requires change, and faith blogging can be a risky venture.  It is risky in that your commitment to an honest and public search can be turned into a discourse on minimalism, infinite argument, a lack of charity, self-righteousness, or pure rage.   You can be easily pulled in a thousand directions by those with an agenda and/or a need for followers, or by your own selfishness.</p>
<p>Blogging will allow you to be scrutinized in a world fraught with philosophers and theologians, religious-politicos from dyed in the wool traditionalists to neo-conservatives to the uber-liberal.   These efforts and agendas erupt into flame wars, the outing of sins, and an occasion to sin.</p>
<p>Good blogging practice and the virtue of patience can help you wade through these obstacles.  To see whether or not you can use this tool in a positive way pick any hot-button subject (especially those in direct opposition to your faith position) and read the blogs.   Then check yourself, how would you respond, what would you write?</p>
<p>To blog or not to blog?  Should you refrain from blogging if you feel that you are less than the epitome of your faith, the perfect example of a believer?   Perhaps you should proceed, especially if you understand where you will likely fall short.  That understanding, that self examination makes the blogging journey more interesting and more fruitful both for yourself and for the world.</p>
<p>In the end, faith that fails to be transmitted is faith that is dead.  A quick look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers">Shakers</a>, while not exactly equivalent, proves this point.  Blogging is a means to leverage, and for faith bloggers is one of the means to spreading the word.   If not you, then who shall go?</p>
<p>How do we live, how do we change, how to we evangelize?  In the midst of all that, how do we live our faith commitment in such a way as to avoid being pulled down?   Blogging offers a tool to meet those challenges.  Like any tool it may be used for right or wrong purposes.  If used properly, it can help you get there; it can help you in becoming a saint.</p>
<p>*The &#8220;<a href="http://server.com/WebApps/NewsApp/news-read.cgi?profile=2459">Blogdom of God</a>&#8221; is the name of a Christian Blogs Aggregator and is a term coined by <a href="http://www.adrian.warnock.info/">Adrian Warnock</a>.</p>
<p>The Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki is a deacon in the <a href="http://www.pncc.org/">Polish National Catholic Church</a> and serves at the <a href="http://www.bvmc.org/">Blessed Virgin Mary of Czestochowa</a> parish in Albany, New York. He blogs at <a href="http://konicki.com/blog2/">Deacon&#8217;s Blog</a>.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:00:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:8383:"<p><small>This is the sixth entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki </small><small>from <a href="http://konicki.com/blog2/">Deacon&#8217;s Blog</a></small></p>
<h2>Discernment in the Blogdom of God*</h2>
<p>Or, can blogging make me a saint?</p>
<p>By Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki</p>
<p>The world of faith blogs is fascinating in its depth; and in what it, as a tool, can allow you to accomplish.</p>
<p>Faith blogging has unlocked the world of faith to seekers and researchers in levels unprecedented since the great efforts at Christian evangelization that occurred between the 15th and 18th century.</p>
<p>There are several aspects to this depth.</p>
<p><strong>The Personal and Public Nature of Faith Blogging</strong></p>
<p>As with any spiritual experience, the practice of blogging starts with oneself.  Whether you are a recent convert, on fire for the faith, or a wizened philosopher, the message of faith in the realm of blogs most directly relates to opening yourself up â€“ of sharing your personal faith journey.</p>
<p>Faith, at an essential level, is about fostering change.  It is about self reflection, your relationship to the world, your fellow man, and to the metaphysical reality that exists beyond you and me.</p>
<p>The journey of faith often begins with a conversion experience.  Whether one is a lifelong believer or new to faith, there is a moment at which the choice of faith, of believing, becomes real.   After that moment, that conversion experience, you have to decide what you are going to do with your newfound joy.</p>
<p>If the choice comes down to staying where you are, being what you are, or evolving, of what Orthodox Christianity calls Theosis â€“ coming into an ultimate unity with God (in a sense), the only choice is to evolve.   Blogging is an effective tool in that process.  It allows an opportunity to analyze where you have been and where you are going.  It becomes a journal of the soul&#8217;s journey.</p>
<p>These aspects, being open, sharing the faith journey, and allowing the faith journey lived publicly to enhance your opportunity for change (to ask essential questions) closely imitates the journey experienced by many of the most notable saints.   People like Francis, Paul, and Augustine all moved from where they were, through a conversion experience, to a public and open journey toward God.</p>
<p>Blogging the faith can be a component of the journey.  When asking, &#8220;How do I get there?&#8221; the examples of those men and women of faith shines though.   Their example is that of faith lived openly.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve often told people in my parish (and elsewhere) that children should be in church.  Of course some people hate the idea.   The feelings range from parents who say they can&#8217;t concentrate, to fellow parishioners who feel put upon by rowdy kids. Of course they are missing the point on several levels, but chief among them is that children, shuffled off to church quasi-daycare miss the whole experiential witness of the faithful.   They do not see mom and dad practicing the faith nor do they see the communal nature of church.</p>
<p>Even the most ascetic of the saints, the desert hermits, lived a life of public witness.</p>
<p>Blogging is part of that witness.  It is by nature communal (check out faith blogger com-boxes for the full impact of the community experience) and is public witness, up-front and out there.</p>
<p>Getting to where you should be in faith is not a new pursuit.  Over the centuries men entered monasteries, and women entered convents, in order to set aside the time and effort needed to discern their relationship to God and the world.   Some of that depth of experience, and no it is not exactly the same, is found in blogging.  Consider blogging as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shared community,</li>
<li>Shared struggles,</li>
<li>Self-evaluation (as both a mirror and as a progress chart)</li>
<li>An effort at focused prayer,</li>
<li>A process of examination and discernment.</li>
</ul>
<p>Indeed, essential elements of the discernment process exist in blogging.  Blogging is a communal process of self-discovery, and for us, self-discovery in faith.</p>
<p><strong>The Ecumenical Nature of Blogging</strong></p>
<p>Blogging, by its public nature, engages people of faith in dialog and, at a minimum, provides a level of understanding for each others perspectives.   It is ecumenical in its approach (can Word Press and MT users come together in understanding).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not fooled into thinking that religious blogging will break down all barriers (ever see a heated theological discussion on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque_clause">filioque</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation">transubstantiation</a>, or the role of the Pope in com-boxes) or miraculously result in the reunification of the divided flock.  But, in the end, blogging does at its seminal level open the door to understanding.   I know where my brothers and sisters are, why they believe what they do, and because of blogging&#8217;s unique presence, its currency, how they live it.  In that discovery I find levels and shades of commonality.</p>
<p><strong>Evangelizing and living it, and the risk of killing it</strong></p>
<p>As I noted earlier, faith requires change, and faith blogging can be a risky venture.  It is risky in that your commitment to an honest and public search can be turned into a discourse on minimalism, infinite argument, a lack of charity, self-righteousness, or pure rage.   You can be easily pulled in a thousand directions by those with an agenda and/or a need for followers, or by your own selfishness.</p>
<p>Blogging will allow you to be scrutinized in a world fraught with philosophers and theologians, religious-politicos from dyed in the wool traditionalists to neo-conservatives to the uber-liberal.   These efforts and agendas erupt into flame wars, the outing of sins, and an occasion to sin.</p>
<p>Good blogging practice and the virtue of patience can help you wade through these obstacles.  To see whether or not you can use this tool in a positive way pick any hot-button subject (especially those in direct opposition to your faith position) and read the blogs.   Then check yourself, how would you respond, what would you write?</p>
<p>To blog or not to blog?  Should you refrain from blogging if you feel that you are less than the epitome of your faith, the perfect example of a believer?   Perhaps you should proceed, especially if you understand where you will likely fall short.  That understanding, that self examination makes the blogging journey more interesting and more fruitful both for yourself and for the world.</p>
<p>In the end, faith that fails to be transmitted is faith that is dead.  A quick look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers">Shakers</a>, while not exactly equivalent, proves this point.  Blogging is a means to leverage, and for faith bloggers is one of the means to spreading the word.   If not you, then who shall go?</p>
<p>How do we live, how do we change, how to we evangelize?  In the midst of all that, how do we live our faith commitment in such a way as to avoid being pulled down?   Blogging offers a tool to meet those challenges.  Like any tool it may be used for right or wrong purposes.  If used properly, it can help you get there; it can help you in becoming a saint.</p>
<p>*The &#8220;<a href="http://server.com/WebApps/NewsApp/news-read.cgi?profile=2459">Blogdom of God</a>&#8221; is the name of a Christian Blogs Aggregator and is a term coined by <a href="http://www.adrian.warnock.info/">Adrian Warnock</a>.</p>
<p>The Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki is a deacon in the <a href="http://www.pncc.org/">Polish National Catholic Church</a> and serves at the <a href="http://www.bvmc.org/">Blessed Virgin Mary of Czestochowa</a> parish in Albany, New York. He blogs at <a href="http://konicki.com/blog2/">Deacon&#8217;s Blog</a>.
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<p>This sucks, and any time there is a problem like this we have a thousand ideas about how to prevent anything like this from happening again. Over the next day or two we&#8217;ll be deciding Because of the nature of Akismet it hurts so much when there are any system problems, which is why we&#8217;ve been so fanatical about performance and reliabilit through <a href="http://akismet.com/stats/">several doublings of the volume of spam</a>.</p>
<p>Now might be a good time to point out that we have a new version of the <a href="http://akismet.com/download/">Akismet plugin for WordPress</a> that adds a &#8220;Recheck queue&#8221; button to the moderation page. That way if something happens and you have a lot of comments stuck in moderation, with a single click Akismet can recheck them and clear out any known spam.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:49:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:14:"Matt Mullenweg";}s:7:"summary";s:1197:"<p>Early in the morning there was a DNS error which caused many clients to be unable to resolve our addresses. I was asleep at the time but the Akismet team fixed the error shortly after it was reported, but unfortunately due to the nature of DNS some clients appear to still be caching the &#8220;not found&#8221; errors, even 6-7 hours after it&#8217;s been fixed.</p>
<p>This sucks, and any time there is a problem like this we have a thousand ideas about how to prevent anything like this from happening again. Over the next day or two we&#8217;ll be deciding Because of the nature of Akismet it hurts so much when there are any system problems, which is why we&#8217;ve been so fanatical about performance and reliabilit through <a href="http://akismet.com/stats/">several doublings of the volume of spam</a>.</p>
<p>Now might be a good time to point out that we have a new version of the <a href="http://akismet.com/download/">Akismet plugin for WordPress</a> that adds a &#8220;Recheck queue&#8221; button to the moderation page. That way if something happens and you have a lot of comments stuck in moderation, with a single click Akismet can recheck them and clear out any known spam.</p>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:54:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Themes: 5 from Themeporter";s:4:"guid";s:82:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/08/wp-themes-5-from-themeporter/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/58678395/";s:11:"description";s:400:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic.php?id=313">WP Themes: 5 from Themeporter</a> Five new themes from Themeporter. Most of them are two column but have a pre-Wordpess history and look very polished and usable. I personally really like Sunrise (that I have linked to before) and <a href="http://www.themeporter.com/2006/12/08/big-pencil-wordpress-theme/">Big Pencil</a> Themes</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:45:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:400:"<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic.php?id=313">WP Themes: 5 from Themeporter</a> Five new themes from Themeporter. Most of them are two column but have a pre-Wordpess history and look very polished and usable. I personally really like Sunrise (that I have linked to before) and <a href="http://www.themeporter.com/2006/12/08/big-pencil-wordpress-theme/">Big Pencil</a> Themes</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:44:"Matt: WordPress.com Private Stats Now Public";s:4:"guid";s:70:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/07/wordpresscom-private-stats-now-public/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/07/wordpresscom-private-stats-now-public/";s:11:"description";s:322:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/12/08/kimono/">We&#8217;ve decided to open up 99% of our internal aggregate stats at WordPress.com to the world</a>, really everything except our PayPal graphs. There are still some todos, such of the language signup information we track, but all of that will come with time.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:17:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:322:"<p><a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/12/08/kimono/">We&#8217;ve decided to open up 99% of our internal aggregate stats at WordPress.com to the world</a>, really everything except our PayPal graphs. There are still some todos, such of the language signup information we track, but all of that will come with time.</p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Plugin: Custom Admin Menu";s:4:"guid";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/07/wp-plugin-custom-admin-menu/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/58308736/";s:11:"description";s:1121:"<p><a href="http://barunsingh.com/software/custom-admin-menu/">WP Plugin: Custom Admin Menu</a> <em>This plugin will let you customize just about everything having to do with the organization of your Wordpress administration. You can relabel and rearrange menu items.<br />
You can create sub-sub-sub-menus, or nest menus as deeply as you want! You can change the parent of a submenu item, or move a submenu item to the top-level menu. You can move something from the top-level menu to a submenu. You can hide any menu or submenu item.</em> There is also a screencast for those interested in seeing its functionality.</p>
<p>Nicely done and a very cool plugin with a multitude of possibilities and one of those few pieces of code that made me say to myself, &#8220;I wonder what this looks like inside?&#8221;. The power of this plugin is not only in using it for your own Wordpress blog to bring most often used items to the top, but also in simplifying the menu for less savvy users for easier management and blogging tasks. I know my dad&#8217;s blogs are getting it as soon as I have a few minutes. Thanks Barun.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:30:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:1121:"<p><a href="http://barunsingh.com/software/custom-admin-menu/">WP Plugin: Custom Admin Menu</a> <em>This plugin will let you customize just about everything having to do with the organization of your Wordpress administration. You can relabel and rearrange menu items.<br />
You can create sub-sub-sub-menus, or nest menus as deeply as you want! You can change the parent of a submenu item, or move a submenu item to the top-level menu. You can move something from the top-level menu to a submenu. You can hide any menu or submenu item.</em> There is also a screencast for those interested in seeing its functionality.</p>
<p>Nicely done and a very cool plugin with a multitude of possibilities and one of those few pieces of code that made me say to myself, &#8220;I wonder what this looks like inside?&#8221;. The power of this plugin is not only in using it for your own Wordpress blog to bring most often used items to the top, but also in simplifying the menu for less savvy users for easier management and blogging tasks. I know my dad&#8217;s blogs are getting it as soon as I have a few minutes. Thanks Barun.
</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Theme: Sunrise Wordpress Theme";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/07/wp-theme-sunrise-wordpress-theme/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/58020245/";s:11:"description";s:314:"<p><a href="http://www.themeporter.com/2006/12/07/sunrise-wordpress-themes/">WP Theme: Sunrise Wordpress Theme</a> Two column, red header, dark on light theme for Wordpress with widgets support. There is no Wordpress demo but the <a href="http://www.free-css-templates.com/sunrise/">original theme is here</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:00:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:314:"<p><a href="http://www.themeporter.com/2006/12/07/sunrise-wordpress-themes/">WP Theme: Sunrise Wordpress Theme</a> Two column, red header, dark on light theme for Wordpress with widgets support. There is no Wordpress demo but the <a href="http://www.free-css-templates.com/sunrise/">original theme is here</a>.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Alex King: Articles 1.0";s:4:"guid";s:47:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/06/articles-10";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/06/articles-10";s:11:"description";s:2627:"<p>As <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/30/leveraging-your-content#comments">requested by many of you</a>, I&#8217;ve packaged up my <a href="http://alexking.org/articles">Articles page</a> functionality as a <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> plugin.</p>
<p>This plugin allows you to easily present a list of posts you select outside of your blog chronology. Very useful for featuring things that might otherwise slip into the nether regions of your archives. See it in action <a href="http://alexking.org/articles">here</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m experimenting with a new way of implementing this without requiring a modification to your theme to add in a template tag (though the template tag is also included). Implementation details are in the README, feel free to comment here with your thoughts on if the &#8220;token&#8221; method is easier to implement than the &#8220;template tag&#8221; method.</p>
<p><strong>Small plea:</strong> I certainly wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing a few <a href="http://alexking.org/donate">donations</a> - I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time during the last couple weeks working on WordPress plugin release development (making new versions of stuff that already works for me, so that it will be easy for you guys to use).</p>
<p>The download is available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
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<p>This plugin allows you to easily present a list of posts you select outside of your blog chronology. Very useful for featuring things that might otherwise slip into the nether regions of your archives. See it in action <a href="http://alexking.org/articles">here</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m experimenting with a new way of implementing this without requiring a modification to your theme to add in a template tag (though the template tag is also included). Implementation details are in the README, feel free to comment here with your thoughts on if the &#8220;token&#8221; method is easier to implement than the &#8220;template tag&#8221; method.</p>
<p><strong>Small plea:</strong> I certainly wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing a few <a href="http://alexking.org/donate">donations</a> - I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time during the last couple weeks working on WordPress plugin release development (making new versions of stuff that already works for me, so that it will be easy for you guys to use).</p>
<p>The download is available on my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">WordPress Plugins page</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/" rel="external">WP Support Forums</a> and send me the link.</p>
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	-->";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Weblog Tools Collection: Gravatar Replacement?";s:4:"guid";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/06/gravatar-replacement/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/57849211/";s:11:"description";s:366:"<p><a href="http://stellify.net/hacking-away/with-gravatars-outage-and-suckage-should-a-new-avatar-system-take-its-place/">Gravatar Replacement?</a> <em>With Gravatar&#8217;s Outage and Suckage (apparently the word was used as a comment in testing), Should A New Avatar System Take Its Place?</em> Some nice research into what is available and the possibilities.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:15:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:366:"<p><a href="http://stellify.net/hacking-away/with-gravatars-outage-and-suckage-should-a-new-avatar-system-take-its-place/">Gravatar Replacement?</a> <em>With Gravatar&#8217;s Outage and Suckage (apparently the word was used as a comment in testing), Should A New Avatar System Take Its Place?</em> Some nice research into what is available and the possibilities.</p>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Theme: Gold Coast";s:4:"guid";s:73:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/06/wp-theme-gold-coast/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/57849212/";s:11:"description";s:205:"<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1220/gold-coast-01/">WP Theme: Gold Coast</a> Two column, blue and white, light, well made, tropical theme for Wordpress that catches your eye.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:15:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:205:"<p><a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1220/gold-coast-01/">WP Theme: Gold Coast</a> Two column, blue and white, light, well made, tropical theme for Wordpress that catches your eye.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: So What If You Have a Blog?";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/06/so-what-if-you-have-a-blog/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/57754351/";s:11:"description";s:11747:"<p><small>This is the fifth entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by Edrei Zahari from <a href="http://kamigoroshi.net">Kamigoroshi.net</a></small></p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to say that blogging is one of the easiest thing to start. All you need is a blogging application, access to the net and a thought that crosses your mind. There is no doubt that there are a lot of articles out there that would give you the <a title="Blog Software Breakdown" href="http://asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm">breakdown of every known blogging application</a> to <a title="CAPTCHAs who needs them?" href="http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/12/captchas-who-needs-them/">comment spam filters</a> to the hints and tips of applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or ads for the purpose of attracting visitors and making money on the sidelines. With everything that&#8217;s out there, it&#8217;s easy to say that blogging is easy, but it&#8217;s not. It never was.  If blogging was so easy, there wouldn&#8217;t be a few million blogs out there with slightly more than half of them surviving past 3 months. There would be more than just a handful of good blogs on our daily reading lists, that we would find it hard pressed to do anything else during the day except read them. Unfortunately, blogging isn&#8217;t as easy as many of us claim to be, not because of the technological boundaries that still baffles the technologically disinclined, but because of the most overlooked question that all bloggers must answer one way or another.  <em>&#8220;Now that I have a blog, what next?&#8221;</em></p>
<h3>So What&#8217;s Next?</h3>
<p>The major problem with every blog is, now that you have had your say in whatever crossed your mind, is there anything else that you would add to that? Most people realized that after a while you really have nothing to say. Despite the fact that your mouth is bigger than both your ears combined, there is only a finite amount of intelligent things to say before you push it and everything else becomes either gibberish and nonsensical or rehashed information that you can get off homeless unemployed IT graduates.  Some might call this phase blog apathy and there is no surprise that there are also articles on <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/08/1362/">how to beat it</a>. Yet in all my years of blogging, I think that the stagnation and eventual disinterested in blogging goes beyond the inability to find something to blog about. It boils down to the inability to grow up alongside your blog, and that&#8217;s something that affects almost every blogger.</p>
<h3>Grow Up You Big Baby</h3>
<p>Let me put things in a nutshell before I lose my point altogether. Real life on the other hand is real. You have yet to define your purpose after you were born. You will have social interests in which you will have to build networks, communities and niches. You will learn a lot in life and hopefully specialize in a field in which you can benefit society on a whole. You have your ups and downs. Since you have a beginning, you will definitely have an end.  Blogging on the other hand has a life of its own. It is the online representation of who you are. It has purpose which you have yet to define when you start. It has social interests in which you can build networks, communities and niches. It gives you a chance to learn a lot of new things and hopefully specialize in a certain area of interest in which can benefit the blogosphere as a whole. It has its ups and downs. It has a beginning and it definitely will have an end.  The point here if you haven&#8217;t put two and two together is, if you don&#8217;t find a way to develop your blog from that simple <em>&#8220;I have an opinion and I am not afraid to put them down&#8221;</em> to something a little more definitive that you have picked up along the way, you will fall behind those that take blogging one step further and figured out what they are going to do with their blog.  So to simplify things, I&#8217;m going to divide the ideas into two parts. One for blogs with a theme in mind and one for personal blogs.</p>
<h3>Themed B	�+
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<p>These are blogs that have a special theme in mind. Whether you&#8217;re a tech blog, a science blog or a political blog, as long as you started and focused on something, that makes it easier for you to grow and develop in your area. Sure, in the beginning you might have some pretty good opinions and information in the first place that no one else has thought off. But information is a competitive market and so is the alternate perspective. The most important thing behind blogs like this is facts.  Facts don&#8217;t really fall out from trees and defined through the words you read from somewhere else. Think about it, if you can read about it, so can anyone else. You need something that can only be defined through experiencing those facts first hand. Something that can put weight on the mere words that you blog about.  So say if you&#8217;re tech blogger, why not take your time and worm your way into the tech community of your choice? Get to know the developers. Be a alpha tester on something that the blogosphere hasn&#8217;t gotten wind of yet, so when it does come out, you know way more than what other people would know if they blogged about it from a second hand source. Plus, you have the facts to back it up.  The same deal goes for every theme of your choice. You can&#8217;t be one blogger in the arena, stake your opinions and assume that you&#8217;re unique. Understand political science if you can and build your network of people who know important people somewhere. Read and compare holy texts and ask the local religious folk to gain their perspective. Dabble around in the industry to gain a foothold of how books, editors, and writers work.   Whatever that gives you the edge to be a better blogger in return gives you the chance to be a more knowledgeable person in the society. No longer will you just be someone who sits in front of the computer randomly clicking your 1001 feeds to find and blog something that a few hundred people haven&#8217;t already blogged about before. You have the credibility in whatever you have specialized in and it changes the way you blog about things and in a large way, it changes you.</p>
<h3>Personal Blogs</h3>
<p>Whether we like it or not, personal blogs make up the bulk of blogs out there. Most of us just want a place where we can rant, rave and hopefully believe that other people would listen. But when every personal blogger expects that on some subconscious level, where do we go from there? The answer though is both simple and a pain in the proverbial butt. You simply have to get out there and live your life, otherwise you&#8217;re left with large gaps in your blogging timeline that is peppered with <em><a href="http://kamigoroshi.net/archive/2005/08/29/796">&#8220;noodle posts&#8221;</a></em>.  If you want me to be scientific about it, great personal blogs out there seem to have developed this formula:</p>
<ul>
<li>40% life experience</li>
<li>40% storytelling</li>
<li>20% blog interaction</li>
</ul>
<p>I say that you can play around with the ratios a bit until you get something that works for you. The most important thing to realize is that you don&#8217;t really have to dig up facts to write a personal blog. Not I&#8217;m not saying you shouldn&#8217;t get your facts straight when you decide to express an opinion. I&#8217;m saying that you don&#8217;t have to look far to find that life is all about perspective and there is no shortage of things happening in it should you choose to start living beyond your front door. Here&#8217;s looking at it simply. You can&#8217;t have a personal blog if you don&#8217;t have a personal life to live.  Another thing to remember is that personal blogs, without anything specific to give to the readers only have the ability to entertain by the way they express their life to people. It&#8217;s the way you tell your story to the people that keeps them coming back for more. You can tell them what you had for lunch and whether you thought the waiter was coming on to you. Or you can tell them about that overlooked lonely meatball that fell on the floor and how your regular barista boy has gotten a whole lot better at serving you &#8220;coffee&#8221; for some reason.  Then you can understand why some &#8220;Dear Diary&#8221; like posts tend to have fewer readers than cryptic and poetic expressions of an anonymous perspective. Storytelling is a hard act to follow, many authors struggle to put it all together and few succeed. Now try imagine a few million bloggers out there and the load of crap that gets poured through that can&#8217;t even spell properly let alone get their grammar right. That few blogs you read a day is starting to look even more reasonable now doesn&#8217;t it?  So what else can you do but read? If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be a good storyteller, then that&#8217;s good for you. The rest of us however have to spend time experimenting on different styles and different ways of telling a story until we find something that works for us. Something that we find comfortable and part of ourselves. Which in return is no different than going out there and exploring ways in which you can be creatively expressive. Something that speaks of you that no one else can imitate, now that is really personal.  So what&#8217;s left? You have a life. You have a way of telling a story. But in life, a person&#8217;s worth is defined by the friends they keep. Blogging is no different. <a title="The Blog Columnist Â» Three Cheers to One Successful Blogger" href="http://www.theblogcolumnist.com/three-cheers-to-one-successful-blogger/">Good bloggers talk to their readers, great bloggers empathize with their readers</a> and that makes friends and keeps people coming back for more because you&#8217;re people person. It builds your niche and ultimately your community. It allows you to exchange ideas and opinions. Most importantly grow up with your readers instead of keeping the 15 minutes of fame you think you had when you started and then have everyone else move on without you.</p>
<h3>Final Note</h3>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t already closed this window and read up to this part then let me wrap things up before you fall into a state of catatonic boredom. The bottom line in all this is to grow up with your blog. Your blogs are a part of you, so whatever you pick up in life, you will put down online. If you picked nothing up, you have nothing to put down and that will show whether you give up on blogging or it all goes downhill from there.  Live life, learn what you like, and otherwise appreciate it along with people who share their own appreciation for the matter. Blogging is no different from how you would conduct yourself in the real world. Whatever skills you pick up on either end would benefit the way you see yourself and the world for that matter. Who knows? You might find yourself blogging about the things you picked up along the course of your career and even better, end up pursuing a career from something you picked up when you explored blogging.  The possibilities are endless. Only if you ask yourself what happens next after you got yourself a blog. Only if you&#8217;re willing to try and find out.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:15:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:11747:"<p><small>This is the fifth entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by Edrei Zahari from <a href="http://kamigoroshi.net">Kamigoroshi.net</a></small></p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to say that blogging is one of the easiest thing to start. All you need is a blogging application, access to the net and a thought that crosses your mind. There is no doubt that there are a lot of articles out there that would give you the <a title="Blog Software Breakdown" href="http://asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm">breakdown of every known blogging application</a> to <a title="CAPTCHAs who needs them?" href="http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/12/captchas-who-needs-them/">comment spam filters</a> to the hints and tips of applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or ads for the purpose of attracting visitors and making money on the sidelines. With everything that&#8217;s out there, it&#8217;s easy to say that blogging is easy, but it&#8217;s not. It never was.  If blogging was so easy, there wouldn&#8217;t be a few million blogs out there with slightly more than half of them surviving past 3 months. There would be more than just a handful of good blogs on our daily reading lists, that we would find it hard pressed to do anything else during the day except read them. Unfortunately, blogging isn&#8217;t as easy as many of us claim to be, not because of the technological boundaries that still baffles the technologically disinclined, but because of the most overlooked question that all bloggers must answer one way or another.  <em>&#8220;Now that I have a blog, what next?&#8221;</em></p>
<h3>So What&#8217;s Next?</h3>
<p>The major problem with every blog is, now that you have had your say in whatever crossed your mind, is there anything else that you would add to that? Most people realized that after a while you really have nothing to say. Despite the fact that your mouth is bigger than both your ears combined, there is only a finite amount of intelligent things to say before you push it and everything else becomes either gibberish and nonsensical or rehashed information that you can get off homeless unemployed IT graduates.  Some might call this phase blog apathy and there is no surprise that there are also articles on <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/08/1362/">how to beat it</a>. Yet in all my years of blogging, I think that the stagnation and eventual disinterested in blogging goes beyond the inability to find something to blog about. It boils down to the inability to grow up alongside your blog, and that&#8217;s something that affects almost every blogger.</p>
<h3>Grow Up You Big Baby</h3>
<p>Let me put things in a nutshell before I lose my point altogether. Real life on the other hand is real. You have yet to define your purpose after you were born. You will have social interests in which you will have to build networks, communities and niches. You will learn a lot in life and hopefully specialize in a field in which you can benefit society on a whole. You have your ups and downs. Since you have a beginning, you will definitely have an end.  Blogging on the other hand has a life of its own. It is the online representation of who you are. It has purpose which you have yet to define when you start. It has social interests in which you can build networks, communities and niches. It gives you a chance to learn a lot of new things and hopefully specialize in a certain area of interest in which can benefit the blogosphere as a whole. It has its ups and downs. It has a beginning and it definitely will have an end.  The point here if you haven&#8217;t put two and two together is, if you don&#8217;t find a way to develop your blog from that simple <em>&#8220;I have an opinion and I am not afraid to put them down&#8221;</em> to something a little more definitive that you have picked up along the way, you will fall behind those that take blogging one step further and figured out what they are going to do with their blog.  So to simplify things, I&#8217;m going to divide the ideas into two parts. One for blogs with a theme in mind and one for personal blogs.</p>
<h3>Themed Blogs:</h3>
<p>These are blogs that have a special theme in mind. Whether you&#8217;re a tech blog, a science blog or a political blog, as long as you started and focused on something, that makes it easier for you to grow and develop in your area. Sure, in the beginning you might have some pretty good opinions and information in the first place that no one else has thought off. But information is a competitive market and so is the alternate perspective. The most important thing behind blogs like this is facts.  Facts don&#8217;t really fall out from trees and defined through the words you read from somewhere else. Think about it, if you can read about it, so can anyone else. You need something that can only be defined through experiencing those facts first hand. Something that can put weight on the mere words that you blog about.  So say if you&#8217;re tech blogger, why not take your time and worm your way into the tech community of your choice? Get to know the developers. Be a alpha tester on something that the blogosphere hasn&#8217;t gotten wind of yet, so when it does come out, you know way more than what other people would know if they blogged about it from a second hand source. Plus, you have the facts to back it up.  The same deal goes for every theme of your choice. You can&#8217;t be one blogger in the arena, stake your opinions and assume that you&#8217;re unique. Understand political science if you can and build your network of people who know important people somewhere. Read and compare holy texts and ask the local religious folk to gain their perspective. Dabble around in the industry to gain a foothold of how books, editors, and writers work.   Whatever that gives you the edge to be a better blogger in return gives you the chance to be a more knowledgeable person in the society. No longer will you just be someone who sits in front of the computer randomly clicking your 1001 feeds to find and blog something that a few hundred people haven&#8217;t already blogged about before. You have the credibility in whatever you have specialized in and it changes the way you blog about things and in a large way, it changes you.</p>
<h3>Personal Blogs</h3>
<p>Whether we like it or not, personal blogs make up the bulk of blogs out there. Most of us just want a place where we can rant, rave and hopefully believe that other people would listen. But when every personal blogger expects that on some subconscious level, where do we go from there? The answer though is both simple and a pain in the proverbial butt. You simply have to get out there and live your life, otherwise you&#8217;re left with large gaps in your blogging timeline that is peppered with <em><a href="http://kamigoroshi.net/archive/2005/08/29/796">&#8220;noodle posts&#8221;</a></em>.  If you want me to be scientific about it, great personal blogs out there seem to have developed this formula:</p>
<ul>
<li>40% life experience</li>
<li>40% storytelling</li>
<li>20% blog interaction</li>
</ul>
<p>I say that you can play around with the ratios a bit until you get something that works for you. The most important thing to realize is that you don&#8217;t really have to dig up facts to write a personal blog. Not I&#8217;m not saying you shouldn&#8217;t get your facts straight when you decide to express an opinion. I&#8217;m saying that you don&#8217;t have to look far to find that life is all about perspective and there is no shortage of things happening in it should you choose to start living beyond your front door. Here&#8217;s looking at it simply. You can&#8217;t have a personal blog if you don&#8217;t have a personal life to live.  Another thing to remember is that personal blogs, without anything specific to give to the readers only have the ability to entertain by the way they express their life to people. It&#8217;s the way you tell your story to the people that keeps them coming back for more. You can tell them what you had for lunch and whether you thought the waiter was coming on to you. Or you can tell them about that overlooked lonely meatball that fell on the floor and how your regular barista boy has gotten a whole lot better at serving you &#8220;coffee&#8221; for some reason.  Then you can understand why some &#8220;Dear Diary&#8221; like posts tend to have fewer readers than cryptic and poetic expressions of an anonymous perspective. Storytelling is a hard act to follow, many authors struggle to put it all together and few succeed. Now try imagine a few million bloggers out there and the load of crap that gets poured through that can&#8217;t even spell properly let alone get their grammar right. That few blogs you read a day is starting to look even more reasonable now doesn&#8217;t it?  So what else can you do but read? If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be a good storyteller, then that&#8217;s good for you. The rest of us however have to spend time experimenting on different styles and different ways of telling a story until we find something that works for us. Something that we find comfortable and part of ourselves. Which in return is no different than going out there and exploring ways in which you can be creatively expressive. Something that speaks of you that no one else can imitate, now that is really personal.  So what&#8217;s left? You have a life. You have a way of telling a story. But in life, a person&#8217;s worth is defined by the friends they keep. Blogging is no different. <a title="The Blog Columnist Â» Three Cheers to One Successful Blogger" href="http://www.theblogcolumnist.com/three-cheers-to-one-successful-blogger/">Good bloggers talk to their readers, great bloggers empathize with their readers</a> and that makes friends and keeps people coming back for more because you&#8217;re people person. It builds your niche and ultimately your community. It allows you to exchange ideas and opinions. Most importantly grow up with your readers instead of keeping the 15 minutes of fame you think you had when you started and then have everyone else move on without you.</p>
<h3>Final Note</h3>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t already closed this window and read up to this part then let me wrap things up before you fall into a state of catatonic boredom. The bottom line in all this is to grow up with your blog. Your blogs are a part of you, so whatever you pick up in life, you will put down online. If you picked nothing up, you have nothing to put down and that will show whether you give up on blogging or it all goes downhill from there.  Live life, learn what you like, and otherwise appreciate it along with people who share their own appreciation for the matter. Blogging is no different from how you would conduct yourself in the real world. Whatever skills you pick up on either end would benefit the way you see yourself and the world for that matter. Who knows? You might find yourself blogging about the things you picked up along the course of your career and even better, end up pursuing a career from something you picked up when you explored blogging.  The possibilities are endless. Only if you ask yourself what happens next after you got yourself a blog. Only if you&#8217;re willing to try and find out.
</p>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"WordPress Podcast: Episode 13: An interview with Matt Mullenweg (Part 2)";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://wp-community.org/2006/12/06/episode-13-an-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-part-2/";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://wp-community.org/2006/12/06/episode-13-an-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-part-2/";s:11:"description";s:173:"<strong>Episode 13</strong> of the podcast finishes up with the second part of an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress and head of Automattic, Inc.";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:00:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Charles";}s:7:"summary";s:173:"<strong>Episode 13</strong> of the podcast finishes up with the second part of an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress and head of Automattic, Inc.";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Matt: MT Export Helper";s:4:"guid";s:49:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/05/mt-export-helper/";s:4:"link";s:49:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/05/mt-export-helper/";s:11:"description";s:221:"<p><a href="http://mt-export-split.wordpress.net/">Split Your MT Export File</a>. I wrote a quick little web service to intelligently split large export files from Typepad and Movable Type into more manageable chunks.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:04:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:221:"<p><a href="http://mt-export-split.wordpress.net/">Split Your MT Export File</a>. I wrote a quick little web service to intelligently split large export files from Typepad and Movable Type into more manageable chunks.</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Theme: Iceburgg";s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/05/wp-theme-iceburgg/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/57624630/";s:11:"description";s:263:"<p><a href="http://www.devlounge.net/extras/iceburgg">WP Theme: Iceburgg</a> Nicely formatted, one column hybrid, slightly different, Wintery theme for Wordpress with very interesting titles and meta. I like the striped background, wish it was candy striped.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:45:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:263:"<p><a href="http://www.devlounge.net/extras/iceburgg">WP Theme: Iceburgg</a> Nicely formatted, one column hybrid, slightly different, Wintery theme for Wordpress with very interesting titles and meta. I like the striped background, wish it was candy striped.
</p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Alex King: â€œShare Thisâ€ Icon Concept #2";s:4:"guid";s:61:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/05/share-this-icon-concept-2";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/05/share-this-icon-concept-2";s:11:"description";s:2592:"<p>Bob had some <a href="http://lonesysadmin.net/2006/12/05/share-this-icons/" rel="external">good ideas</a> from my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/04/share-this-icon-concept-1">previous concept</a>, and I&#8217;ve come up with a second concept for a Share This icon based on one of them:</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315292893/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/119/315292893_95b21e7488_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Here they are in context with the Feed and OPML icons:</p>
<h3>Concept #1</h3>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315308766/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/111/315308766_163c08db38_m.jpg" width="240" height="92" alt="Share This Icon Concept #1 With Peers" /></a></p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315371611/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/99/315371611_898fa7bcfb_o.gif" width="78" height="30" alt="Small Versions" /></a></p>
<h3>Concept #2</h3>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315308768/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/122/315308768_153adace49_m.jpg" width="240" height="87" alt="Share This Icon Concept #2 With Peers" /></a></p>
<h3>Concept #2a</h3>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315315268/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/114/315315268_2515538819_m.jpg" width="240" height="84" alt="Share This Icon Concept #2a With Peers" /></a></p>
<p>Comments are open.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2562&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2562" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315292893/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/119/315292893_95b21e7488_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Here they are in context with the Feed and OPML icons:</p>
<h3>Concept #1</h3>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315308766/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/111/315308766_163c08db38_m.jpg" width="240" height="92" alt="Share This Icon Concept #1 With Peers" /></a></p>
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<h3>Concept #2</h3>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315308768/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/122/315308768_153adace49_m.jpg" width="240" height="87" alt="Share This Icon Concept #2 With Peers" /></a></p>
<h3>Concept #2a</h3>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/315315268/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/114/315315268_2515538819_m.jpg" width="240" height="84" alt="Share This Icon Concept #2a With Peers" /></a></p>
<p>Comments are open.
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2562&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2562" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<p>If your plugins use DOM to insert new elements into the user interface (pretty much any plugin that adds elements is using DOM to do it) then it may need to be updated to account for changes there.</p>
<p>The Upload page in the admin is gone.  If your plugin altered or attached to that page, it won&#8217;t be any more.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, you&#8217;re going to need to procure write access for your server to the /wp-content directory of WordPress.  That means you have to allow your server to write files into that directory from scripts.  This will allow things like caching, image uploading, and the bundled backup plugin to work as they should, although your host may not like it or allow it (most hosts will, but you should check), and you might not consider it secure to leave all of the subdirectories there in that state.</p>
<p>You should verify with someone you trust concerning the permissions you intend to use to provide the access to your server that you want to provide.</p>
<p><strong>What should you do if your plugin doesn&#8217;t work?</strong></p>
<p>Panic.</p>
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<p>I suggest trying WordPress IRC (#wordpress @ irc.freenode.net) and see if anyone there knows how to solve your problem.  There is usually someone there that can at least record the issue or forward it on to someone who can start fixing.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t been keeping up with documentation on 2.0 as well as I should, but I imagine that with the frequency of changes over the past month or two that nothing is verifiably up to date.  If you find instructions in the Codex for performing some necessary intrinsic system change, first be sure that the instructions apply to the version you are installing.</p>
<p>Probably the most sound advice I can give you is this:  If you have any doubt about performing an upgrade - <em>don&#8217;t upgrade!</em>  There&#8217;s no reason to submit yourself as a guinea pig to test this software, especially if you&#8217;re fairly satisfied with what you have already.  Granted, WordPress 2.0 is a nice piece of work, but it&#8217;s going to be a while before 1.5.2 loses the support of the community at large.</p>
<p>Take your time.  Learn from the mistakes of the 500,000 other downloaders.  After that, take the plunge.</p>
<p>Remember to <em>backup everything</em>.</p>
<p>Shameless plug: There are also people who can <a href="http://shimmerstudio.net">do your upgrade for you</a>.</p>
<p>If any of you developers think of any other &#8220;gotchas&#8221; in the new system, please leave them in the comments.  Thanks!</p>
<p>Otherwise, I&#8217;ll see you in WP 2.0 later this week.  I&#8217;ve got at least two plugins for 2.0 that I hope to have baked for the release.  I&#8217;m also looking forward to the sleek new <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress.org</a> <a href="http://photomatt.net/temp/wordpress-v2.png">site redesign/rebranding</a> we were promised with the new version release.
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•n common spammy words (like phentermine, poker, viagra, holdem, etc.).   If spam is still getting through you can look at whitelisting; maybe your blog has an option like &#8220;only allow comments from people who have commented before&#8221; which is like an automatic whitelist after the first moderated comment is approved.  Blacklisting is trickier, but if you see spam constantly coming from the same source then you can blacklist that source. Most spammers will get around this easily though.  For a list of other spam busters, you can try <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools">this page</a>, which is for Wordpress, but the concepts still apply to other blog platforms.</p>
<h4>Summary</h4>
<p>CAPTCHAs are bad. They don&#8217;t test for humans, they test for smart non-lazy humans with good eyesight and smart spambots that have CAPTCHAs all figured out. They are at best an annoyance and at worst discriminatory.  Using some or all of the suggestions I offered above, you can eliminate your spam problem without making your readers jump through hoops and without losing your own time dealing with the problem. If your chosen blogging platform doesn&#8217;t support these solutions, then think seriously about changing your platform. I heartily recommend Wordpress for all your blogging needs, either <a href="http://wordpress.com">hosted</a> or <a href="http://wordpress.org">your own installation</a>.  My final piece of advice is for quitters. If you give up trying to deal with comment spam, or you give up blogging completely, please please please remember to disable commenting before abandoning your blog. Every spam comment that gets published is a victory for the spammers.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:00:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:7220:"<p><small>This is the fourth entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by Mark Styles from <a href="http://www.lambic.co.uk">Lambic</a></small></p>
<p>They&#8217;re everywhere, and they&#8217;re annoying. They&#8217;re called CAPTCHAs and they&#8217;ve become a ubiquitious part of blog commenting. Bloggers use them as a quick and dirty solution to an annoying problem without consideration for the annoyance they will cause the reader.   I want to persuade all bloggers who are using them to please stop.</p>
<h4>What are they?</h4>
<p>CAPTCHA stands for &#8220;completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart&#8221;. I know it should really be CAPTTTTCHA but hey, I didn&#8217;t come up with the acronym.   Before bigots destroyed his life, Alan Turing posited the idea of a test to determine machine sentience. His test was designed to decide if a computer had achieved artificial intelligence. So far no computer has passed a Turing test, but the CAPTCHA uses the idea of a Turing test in reverse, testing if a supposed person is really a person and not a computer program pretending to be a person.  So a CAPTCHA is a test to make sure the person posting a comment (or anything else, but I&#8217;m concentrating on the blogging usage here) is really a person, and not a spam generator trying to post comments about card games, prescription drugs or sex. It usually involves an image showing some distorted text, requiring the user to type in what they see in the distorted text.</p>
<h4>Why are they bad?</h4>
<p>Anything that stop spammers is good, right? Well generally yes, but some things that stop spammers are better than others; so much better that the inferior solutions become un-necessary. There are many problems with CAPTCHAs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Any extra work required to comment is likely to deter some people from commenting at all.</li>
<li>Sometimes the images are so distorted they&#8217;re almost impossible to read, even with perfect eyesight.</li>
<li>CAPTCHAs are hackable. Spammers are smart, they can get past many of our barriers.</li>
<li>Visually impaired users are completely excluded (although there are audio CAPTCHAs available now).</li>
<li>Dyslexics have a hard time too.</li>
<li>There are better and less intrusive solutions.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What are these better solutions?</h4>
<p>Hopefully by now I&#8217;ve convinced you that CAPTCHAs are not the best solution to the spam flood. Now it&#8217;s time to bring in the alternatives, but before I offer my alternatives, we should decide what our requirements are. An effective and non-intrusive spam blocker should:</p>
<ul>
<li>Require nothing or as little as possible from the valid commenter.</li>
<li>Require as little effort as possible from the webmaster/blog owner.</li>
<li>Work on as many blog platforms as possible, or have similar alternatives for other blogging platforms.</li>
<li>Stop as much spam as possible.</li>
<li>Not interfere with valid comments</li>
</ul>
<p>Here are the solutions which I feel best meet these requirements:</p>
<h5>Centralized spam database</h5>
<p>This is what I use, in the form of <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a>. The idea is that all spam comments get submitted to a central server. Each time someone comments on your blog the comment gets checked against the central database. If the comment looks like spam it is automatically flagged as such. The person leaving the comment didn&#8217;t have to do anything. The blogger just has to check for false positives occasionally. Everybody is happy.   So far Akismet has stopped over 15,000 comments from being published on my blog with about three false positives (comments marked as spam which were not spam) that I know of and about 5 false negatives (spam comments that did not get marked as spam).  Akismet is designed for Wordpress but will work with other blogging platforms, and the API is open source.  The downside of this solution is the reliance you have on a central database. If the database goes down or disappears altogether then the spam flood will begin again. But while it&#8217;s around, why not take advantage of it?</p>
<h5>Comment analysis programs</h5>
<p>Programs like the <a href="http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/">Bad Behaviour plugin</a> for <a href="http://wordpress.org">Wordpress</a> take all comments received and analyze them for telltale signs of spaminess. Using data hidden in the HTTP headers like user agent information it is possible to tell if a comment came from a legitimate user or a spambot.  The downside of this kind of solution is that it has to be smarter than the spammers, and spammers are smart. Bad Behaviour works very well though, or so I&#8217;ve heard; Akismet takes care of things so well that I haven&#8217;t needed extra solutions.</p>
<h5>Filtering, whitelisting and blacklisting</h5>
<p>If your spam problem isn&#8217;t big enough to warrant external tools, you can probably get a fairly good spam filter going just with what your blogging software offers natively. You should be able to filter out comments which contain common spammy words (like phentermine, poker, viagra, holdem, etc.).   If spam is still getting through you can look at whitelisting; maybe your blog has an option like &#8220;only allow comments from people who have commented before&#8221; which is like an automatic whitelist after the first moderated comment is approved.  Blacklisting is trickier, but if you see spam constantly coming from the same source then you can blacklist that source. Most spammers will get around this easily though.  For a list of other spam busters, you can try <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools">this page</a>, which is for Wordpress, but the concepts still apply to other blog platforms.</p>
<h4>Summary</h4>
<p>CAPTCHAs are bad. They don&#8217;t test for humans, they test for smart non-lazy humans with good eyesight and smart spambots that have CAPTCHAs all figured out. They are at best an annoyance and at worst discriminatory.  Using some or all of the suggestions I offered above, you can eliminate your spam problem without making your readers jump through hoops and without losing your own time dealing with the problem. If your chosen blogging platform doesn&#8217;t support these solutions, then think seriously about changing your platform. I heartily recommend Wordpress for all your blogging needs, either <a href="http://wordpress.com">hosted</a> or <a href="http://wordpress.org">your own installation</a>.  My final piece of advice is for quitters. If you give up trying to deal with comment spam, or you give up blogging completely, please please please remember to disable commenting before abandoning your blog. Every spam comment that gets published is a victory for the spammers.
</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Weblog Tools Collection: Optometrists and Blogging";s:4:"guid";s:79:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/05/optometrists-and-blogging/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/57470871/";s:11:"description";s:7997:"<p><small>This is the third entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by David from <a href="http://optoblog.com">Optoblog.com</a></small></p>
<p>I am an optometric physician.  I began blogging when my friend, Josh Bancroft of <a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/">tinyscreenfuls.com</a>, introduced me to it in October of 2004.  I soon caught the vision of RSS and blogs, and finally started my own at <a href="http://www.optoblog.com/">optoblog.com</a>.  I had intended it to be the start of something: optometrists blogging about all things eye doctor and also giving feedback to the ophthalmic product industry.  Unfortunately, no one else bothered to join the conversation (at least publicly, but more about that later).  Why are there not more optometrists, or for that matter other medical professionals, blogging?</p>
<p>The ophthalmic industry knows about blogging and even podcasting.  <a href="http://download.acuvue.com/">Acuvue contact lenses</a> had a miserable but thankfully short-lived podcast aimed at teenage girl consumers.  <a href="http://dryeyeblog.blogspot.com/">Dryeyeblog.com</a> is written by a doctor of one ophthalmic drug company who refutes the research of another ophthalmic drug company.  But most blogs are short lived, or at least infrequently updated like <a href="http://www.practicemanagementblog.com/">Practicemanagementblog.com</a> and <a href="http://optofficedesign.blogspot.com/">Optometric Office Design News</a>.  It seems that organizations in the industry heard something along the lines of <a href="http://redcouch.typepad.com/">Scobleâ€™s book</a> which preaches blogging will make your business grow drastically, they tried it out for a while, it probably didnâ€™t bring in the big returns, and so they abandoned their blog.</p>
<p>It could be their fault, but then again, are there any eye doctors out there listening?  Optometrists are traditionally slow adopters when it comes to technology.  Apparently the people at <a href="http://www.standardoptical.net/">Standard Optical</a> havenâ€™t even heard of a remarkable device called a door for their exam room (they use curtains).  Have you ever been to some optical shop, and the equipment looked like it was older than your parents?  It probably was.  Now try to get these doctors to pay attention to what is being said on the internet.</p>
<p>But there are some optometrists that are net savvy, but what are they doing?  They finally caught on to bulletin boards.  The biggest one I know of is <a href="http://www.odwire.org/">ODwire</a>; however, membership is exclusive.  They donâ€™t want their conversations to be seen by the general public.  They think itâ€™s a secret that doctors actually want to make money, so they donâ€™t share with the world their suggestions with each other on how to grow their business.  They complain about ophthalmic product companies, but can ophthalmic product companies join the private board?  I think so, but I donâ€™t know of more than one.  I think the secrecy and exclusive membership choke the conversation.</p>
<p>The only other optometrist that I know of who blogs faithfully doesnâ€™t even blog about optometry.  She <a href="http://eyeknit.blogspot.com/">blogs about knitting</a> and has 120 Bloglines subscribers!  There are a couple optometry <a href="http://optstudent.com/nucleus/">school</a> <a href="http://bestoptometryblog.com/">student</a> (oppie) <a href="http://refractiveerror.blogspot.com/">bloggers</a>.  The new oppies are more with it in terms of blogging, but they could do so much more.  During the 4th year while out on preceptorship, there is a required 4 week correspondence class.  The teacher actually uses the internet to bring together students from all over the country and give one online clinical case presentation each; but what about blogging?  Imagine if the only requirement of the class was that you maintain a year round blog about interesting cases you see.  Instead of enlightening a small group with just one case report, you could discuss multiple cases with the entire class!  Imagine school sanctioned blogging!  Think of all the information we could learn.</p>
<p>But thatâ€™s another problem.  Everyone is afraid of lawsuits.  What if the information we share with each other gets us in trouble?  I think thatâ€™s why more medical professionals donâ€™t blog.  They donâ€™t want to be accused of dispensing medical advice to someone for whom it wasnâ€™t intended.  Imagine a doctor distilling the virtues of anti-oxidant vitamins, so a person happens upon the blog entry and decides to take them&#8230;particularly vitamin A&#8230;in megadoses&#8230;and dies because the person smokes like a chimney.</p>
<p>In treating a patient, we doctors like to get paid so we can pay for malpractice insurance premiums which covers the risk of treating patients.  We donâ€™t get paid for blogging.  The last thing we need is the family of some chain-smoking gramma from a different state to sue us out of business.</p>
<p>Aside from medical-condition-related content, what about conversing regarding the ophthalmic product industry?  If more optometrists would blog about vendors publically, then maybe the corporations would know how to make their product better.  Iâ€™ve written reviews of certain products marketed towards eye doctors, like electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PIM) software, and a VIP from the company responded to my blog entry.  These vendors must be surfing around looking for comments about them because I didnâ€™t contact most of them.  I am terribly dismayed by PIM/EHR shortcomings and the lack of features that I desire, but at least they have an ear out.  But what annoys me about the vendors is most would choose to respond to me offline, well&#8230;e-mail.  So instead of everyone seeing their counterpoints, only I could read it.</p>
<p>I wish the ophthalmic vendors themselves would start blogs.  I would like to read about what they are working on next instead of waiting for a convention or a biased review in an industry rag.  I would like to hear from the horseâ€™s mouth why I should use their current products, and it would be nice to know who these people are in the first place.  Industry rags have a virtual monopoly on ophthalmic product information dissemination.  Blogs could shift the balance of power, but only if optometrists ever get savvy enough to figure out how to use a feed aggregator.</p>
<p>But even if the vendors did start blogging, I worry it would be short lived or just considered a cool new way to advertise.  A blog should be viewed like having a telephone: just one more needed way to communicate with people.  Itâ€™s not the savior, be all and end all of a marketing plan.  It is one more useful tool of communication.</p>
<p>So why do I blog?  I admit that I havenâ€™t been blogging a lot on my optoblog.com website.  I have shifted most of my blogging to <a href="http://www.summitvisioncenter.com/">my practice website</a> with an audience of potential and current patients.  My blog intended for other optometrists and vendors has petered out because, quite frankly, I donâ€™t think anyone is listening.  If an eye doctor is walking alone in a forest and stubs his toe, does he cuss up a blue streak?  Maybe, but if no one is paying attention, then why make a big fuss?  When an audience isnâ€™t there, it takes a lot of internal motivation to keep blogging.  I donâ€™t do it for therapy.  I was hoping to be part of a conversation, but the problem is all the conversations seem to be behind closed doors (or bulletin boards).
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:48:33 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:7997:"<p><small>This is the third entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by David from <a href="http://optoblog.com">Optoblog.com</a></small></p>
<p>I am an optometric physician.  I began blogging when my friend, Josh Bancroft of <a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/">tinyscreenfuls.com</a>, introduced me to it in October of 2004.  I soon caught the vision of RSS and blogs, and finally started my own at <a href="http://www.optoblog.com/">optoblog.com</a>.  I had intended it to be the start of something: optometrists blogging about all things eye doctor and also giving feedback to the ophthalmic product industry.  Unfortunately, no one else bothered to join the conversation (at least publicly, but more about that later).  Why are there not more optometrists, or for that matter other medical professionals, blogging?</p>
<p>The ophthalmic industry knows about blogging and even podcasting.  <a href="http://download.acuvue.com/">Acuvue contact lenses</a> had a miserable but thankfully short-lived podcast aimed at teenage girl consumers.  <a href="http://dryeyeblog.blogspot.com/">Dryeyeblog.com</a> is written by a doctor of one ophthalmic drug company who refutes the research of another ophthalmic drug company.  But most blogs are short lived, or at least infrequently updated like <a href="http://www.practicemanagementblog.com/">Practicemanagementblog.com</a> and <a href="http://optofficedesign.blogspot.com/">Optometric Office Design News</a>.  It seems that organizations in the industry heard something along the lines of <a href="http://redcouch.typepad.com/">Scobleâ€™s book</a> which preaches blogging will make your business grow drastically, they tried it out for a while, it probably didnâ€™t bring in the big returns, and so they abandoned their blog.</p>
<p>It could be their fault, but then again, are there any eye doctors out there listening?  Optometrists are traditionally slow adopters when it comes to technology.  Apparently the people at <a href="http://www.standardoptical.net/">Standard Optical</a> havenâ€™t even heard of a remarkable device called a door for their exam room (they use curtains).  Have you ever been to some optical shop, and the equipment looked like it was older than your parents?  It probably was.  Now try to get these doctors to pay attention to what is being said on the internet.</p>
<p>But there are some optometrists that are net savvy, but what are they doing?  They finally caught on to bulletin boards.  The biggest one I know of is <a href="http://www.odwire.org/">ODwire</a>; however, membership is exclusive.  They donâ€™t want their conversations to be seen by the general public.  They think itâ€™s a secret that doctors actually want to make money, so they donâ€™t share with the world their suggestions with each other on how to grow their business.  They complain about ophthalmic product companies, but can ophthalmic product companies join the private board?  I think so, but I donâ€™t know of more than one.  I think the secrecy and exclusive membership choke the conversation.</p>
<p>The only other optometrist that I know of who blogs faithfully doesnâ€™t even blog about optometry.  She <a href="http://eyeknit.blogspot.com/">blogs about knitting</a> and has 120 Bloglines subscribers!  There are a couple optometry <a href="http://optstudent.com/nucleus/">school</a> <a href="http://bestoptometryblog.com/">student</a> (oppie) <a href="http://refractiveerror.blogspot.com/">bloggers</a>.  The new oppies are more with it in terms of blogging, but they could do so much more.  During the 4th year while out on preceptorship, there is a required 4 week correspondence class.  The teacher actually uses the internet to bring together students from all over the country and give one online clinical case presentation each; but what about blogging?  Imagine if the only requirement of the class was that you maintain a year round blog about interesting cases you see.  Instead of enlightening a small group with just one case report, you could discuss multiple cases with the entire class!  Imagine school sanctioned blogging!  Think of all the information we could learn.</p>
<p>But thatâ€™s another problem.  Everyone is afraid of lawsuits.  What if the information we share with each other gets us in trouble?  I think thatâ€™s why more medical professionals donâ€™t blog.  They donâ€™t want to be accused of dispensing medical advice to someone for whom it wasnâ€™t intended.  Imagine a doctor distilling the virtues of anti-oxidant vitamins, so a person happens upon the blog entry and decides to take them&#8230;particularly vitamin A&#8230;in megadoses&#8230;and dies because the person smokes like a chimney.</p>
<p>In treating a patient, we doctors like to get paid so we can pay for malpractice insurance premiums which covers the risk of treating patients.  We donâ€™t get paid for blogging.  The last thing we need is the family of some chain-smoking gramma from a different state to sue us out of business.</p>
<p>Aside from medical-condition-related content, what about conversing regarding the ophthalmic product industry?  If more optometrists would blog about vendors publically, then maybe the corporations would know how to make their product better.  Iâ€™ve written reviews of certain products marketed towards eye doctors, like electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PIM) software, and a VIP from the company responded to my blog entry.  These vendors must be surfing around looking for comments about them because I didnâ€™t contact most of them.  I am terribly dismayed by PIM/EHR shortcomings and the lack of features that I desire, but at least they have an ear out.  But what annoys me about the vendors is most would choose to respond to me offline, well&#8230;e-mail.  So instead of everyone seeing their counterpoints, only I could read it.</p>
<p>I wish the ophthalmic vendors themselves would start blogs.  I would like to read about what they are working on next instead of waiting for a convention or a biased review in an industry rag.  I would like to hear from the horseâ€™s mouth why I should use their current products, and it would be nice to know who these people are in the first place.  Industry rags have a virtual monopoly on ophthalmic product information dissemination.  Blogs could shift the balance of power, but only if optometrists ever get savvy enough to figure out how to use a feed aggregator.</p>
<p>But even if the vendors did start blogging, I worry it would be short lived or just considered a cool new way to advertise.  A blog should be viewed like having a telephone: just one more needed way to communicate with people.  Itâ€™s not the savior, be all and end all of a marketing plan.  It is one more useful tool of communication.</p>
<p>So why do I blog?  I admit that I havenâ€™t been blogging a lot on my optoblog.com website.  I have shifted most of my blogging to <a href="http://www.summitvisioncenter.com/">my practice website</a> with an audience of potential and current patients.  My blog intended for other optometrists and vendors has petered out because, quite frankly, I donâ€™t think anyone is listening.  If an eye doctor is walking alone in a forest and stubs his toe, does he cuss up a blue streak?  Maybe, but if no one is paying attention, then why make a big fuss?  When an audience isnâ€™t there, it takes a lot of internal motivation to keep blogging.  I donâ€™t do it for therapy.  I was hoping to be part of a conversation, but the problem is all the conversations seem to be behind closed doors (or bulletin boards).
</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:63:"Donncha: Caching WordPress with WP-Cache in a spam filled world";s:4:"guid";s:84:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/12/05/caching-wordpress-with-wp-cache-in-a-spam-filled-world/";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/12/05/caching-wordpress-with-wp-cache-in-a-spam-filled-world/";s:11:"description";s:1997:"<p><a href="http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/">WP-Cache</a> and spam. Who&#8217;d have thought they were related? Unfortunately they are because when your blog is spammed WP-Cache doesn&#8217;t check if the comment is legitimate or not and deletes cached files related to the spammed post.</p>
<p>I noticed this happened a lot on <a href="http://inphotos.org/">In Photos.org</a> after I added thumbnails to the top of the page. The thumbnails change when the page is regenerated but I noticed that they would change much more frequently than expected. After some debugging I realised that comment spam was invalidating the WP-Cache cache.</p>
<p>How do you fix this? Here&#8217;s a small patch that can be applied to wp-cache-phase2.php, version 2.0.19 (and probably lower) that checks if the submitted comment was moderated or not. You&#8217;ll also find wp-cache-phase2.txt below. Just rename that to .php and copy it into your plugins/wp-cache/ folder for it to work.</p>
<p>Remember to update WP-Cache too. Despite last year&#8217;s date on the above post, it was updated as recently as last month!</p>
<p><strong>Download</strong></p>
<ol>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/wp-cache-phase2.diff">wp-cache-phase2.diff</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/wp-cache-phase2.txt">wp-cache-phase2.txt</a></li>
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<p>Patch will be on it&#8217;s way to gallir in a few moments but if you&#8217;re using WP-Cache this could be a big help to your site. (and if you use Ultimate Tag Warrior I hope you&#8217;re using my <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/09/27/simple-utw-performance-boost/">patch</a>?)</p>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/caching/" rel="tag">caching</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/comment-spam/" rel="tag">comment spam</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/comments/" rel="tag">comments</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wp-cache/" rel="tag">WP Cache</a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:45:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:1997:"<p><a href="http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/">WP-Cache</a> and spam. Who&#8217;d have thought they were related? Unfortunately they are because when your blog is spammed WP-Cache doesn&#8217;t check if the comment is legitimate or not and deletes cached files related to the spammed post.</p>
<p>I noticed this happened a lot on <a href="http://inphotos.org/">In Photos.org</a> after I added thumbnails to the top of the page. The thumbnails change when the page is regenerated but I noticed that they would change much more frequently than expected. After some debugging I realised that comment spam was invalidating the WP-Cache cache.</p>
<p>How do you fix this? Here&#8217;s a small patch that can be applied to wp-cache-phase2.php, version 2.0.19 (and probably lower) that checks if the submitted comment was moderated or not. You&#8217;ll also find wp-cache-phase2.txt below. Just rename that to .php and copy it into your plugins/wp-cache/ folder for it to work.</p>
<p>Remember to update WP-Cache too. Despite last year&#8217;s date on the above post, it was updated as recently as last month!</p>
<p><strong>Download</strong></p>
<ol>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/wp-cache-phase2.diff">wp-cache-phase2.diff</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/wp-cache-phase2.txt">wp-cache-phase2.txt</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Patch will be on it&#8217;s way to gallir in a few moments but if you&#8217;re using WP-Cache this could be a big help to your site. (and if you use Ultimate Tag Warrior I hope you&#8217;re using my <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/09/27/simple-utw-performance-boost/">patch</a>?)</p>
<a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/caching/" rel="tag">caching</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/comment-spam/" rel="tag">comment spam</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/comments/" rel="tag">comments</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wordpress/" rel="tag">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/tag/wp-cache/" rel="tag">WP Cache</a>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"WordPress Podcast: Episode 12: An interview with Matt Mullenweg (Part 1)";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://wp-community.org/2006/12/05/episode-12-an-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-part-1/";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://wp-community.org/2006/12/05/episode-12-an-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-part-1/";s:11:"description";s:178:"<strong>Episode 12</strong> of the podcast is made up entirely of the first part of an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress and head of Automattic, Inc.";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:01:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Charles";}s:7:"summary";s:178:"<strong>Episode 12</strong> of the podcast is made up entirely of the first part of an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress and head of Automattic, Inc.";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Ma.gnolia Uses Akismet";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/04/magnolia-uses-akismet/";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/04/magnolia-uses-akismet/";s:11:"description";s:165:"<p><a href="http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/12/04/spam-be-gone">Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia has integrated Akismet to help their battle against spam</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:03:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:165:"<p><a href="http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/12/04/spam-be-gone">Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia has integrated Akismet to help their battle against spam</a>.</p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Alex King: â€œShare Thisâ€ Icon Concept #1";s:4:"guid";s:61:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/04/share-this-icon-concept-1";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/04/share-this-icon-concept-1";s:11:"description";s:3296:"<p>As <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/14/share-this-icon">previously</a> <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/share-this-11">discussed</a>, I think it would be a good idea to come up with a generic &#8220;social bookmarking&#8221;/&#8221;sharing&#8221; icon for use with things like my Share This plugin.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve come up with a rough concept icon:</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/312732499/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/107/312732499_23dc521ccc_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Share This Icon Concept 1" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s in the same vein as the <a href="http://feedicons.com/" rel="external">feed icon</a> as <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/08/13/rss-opml-tag-bookmark-icons/" rel="external">Chris discussed</a>.</p>
<p>The connected dots represent information/data/ideas passing from one originating place to others. The green color is used to reinforce the &#8220;go&#8221;ing nature of the interaction.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s obviously rough, and just a first concept so hopefully we can discuss it as a concept rather than picking at the problems in the details<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165142485906n" id="fn1165142485906" class="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>The comments are open.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Here is a version that will shrink to a small icon size better:</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/314461432/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/103/314461432_99cd6bff20_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Share This Icon Concept 1a" /></a></p>
<p>Please continue to post your own contributions (links to images, etc.) in the comments - but remember to test them at 12&#215;12 pixels and 16&#215;16 pixels as well. Use the <a href="http://feedicons.com/" rel="external">feed icons package</a> as an example.</p>
<p>UPDATE: <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/05/share-this-icon-concept-2">Concept #2</a> posted.</p>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="fn1165142485906n">The connected circles on the interior probably need to be a bit larger/bolder to work at a small size, etc. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165142485906">back</a>]</li>
</ol>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2552&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2552" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
</p>

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<p>I&#8217;ve come up with a rough concept icon:</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/312732499/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/107/312732499_23dc521ccc_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Share This Icon Concept 1" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s in the same vein as the <a href="http://feedicons.com/" rel="external">feed icon</a> as <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/08/13/rss-opml-tag-bookmark-icons/" rel="external">Chris discussed</a>.</p>
<p>The connected dots represent information/data/ideas passing from one originating place to others. The green color is used to reinforce the &#8220;go&#8221;ing nature of the interaction.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s obviously rough, and just a first concept so hopefully we can discuss it as a concept rather than picking at the problems in the details<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165142485906n" id="fn1165142485906" class="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>The comments are open.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Here is a version that will shrink to a small icon size better:</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/314461432/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/103/314461432_99cd6bff20_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Share This Icon Concept 1a" /></a></p>
<p>Please continue to post your own contributions (links to images, etc.) in the comments - but remember to test them at 12&#215;12 pixels and 16&#215;16 pixels as well. Use the <a href="http://feedicons.com/" rel="external">feed icons package</a> as an example.</p>
<p>UPDATE: <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/05/share-this-icon-concept-2">Concept #2</a> posted.</p>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="fn1165142485906n">The connected circles on the interior probably need to be a bit larger/bolder to work at a small size, etc. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165142485906">back</a>]</li>
</ol>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2552&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2552" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
</p>

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This can be especially valuable if you require your readers to register and log in to your blog before they can comment.</p>";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: Redirect from Blogger to WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/04/redirect-from-blogger-to-wordpress/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/57119045/";s:11:"description";s:390:"<p><a href="http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress">Redirect from Blogger to WordPress</a> If you are moving your blog from Blogger to Wordpress (hosted) this might be a useful solution for you. Step by step, easy to follow instructions. Thanks <a href="http://freshblogger.com/2006/12/redirecting-a-bloggercom-blog-to-a-wordpress-blog/">Freshblogger</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:48:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:390:"<p><a href="http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress">Redirect from Blogger to WordPress</a> If you are moving your blog from Blogger to Wordpress (hosted) this might be a useful solution for you. Step by step, easy to follow instructions. 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Installation does require modification of theme code.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:43:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:280:"<p><a href="http://n0tablog.wordpress.com/title-override-plug-in-for-wordpress/">WP Plugin: Title Override</a> Override the titles of your Wordpress blog for display under the title HTML tag and bookmarks with this plugin. 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All three themes are the narrow variety with dark edges and one has a Christmas/Winter feel to it.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:14:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:284:"<p><a href="http://www.briangardner.com/blog-recent/officially-released-wordpress-themes.htm">WP Themes: Brian Gardner</a> Three different two and three column themes for Wordpress. All three themes are the narrow variety with dark edges and one has a Christmas/Winter feel to it.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"Weblog Tools Collection: Blogging Essay Competition";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/03/blogging-essay-competition/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/56868282/";s:11:"description";s:1577:"<p>There are approximately ten days left in the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">Blogging Essay Competition</a> and there have been <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/24/blogging-the-not-so-new-trend/">two</a> <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/27/no-inner-blogger-dont-bother/">entries</a> so far. A lot of people have been very helpful in reviewing these essays and many people have posted helpful comments and suggestions for the authors. However, we are still far shy of the ten entries required to judge the competition.</p>
<p>A couple of authors have expressed their concern for irking the wrath of readers or making mistakes in their commentary that they will later regret. I am sure that I am not the first to say that every blogger has made a mistake at one time or the other and paid dearly for it. I admit that I have made many of them but I have not let them stop me. The power is in accepting your mistake, correcting yourself and making change to ensure it does not happen again. I believe that is all part and parcel of this wondrous world of instant publication that we call blogging.<br />
So where is your entry?  Did I lose you entry in my hordes of spam or is the threat of a bad grade the only way to prompt essay production? Is the 1000 word minimum too daunting? Is the reward sum too paltry (I already know the answer to that)? Or is the fear of public scrutiny too much? Ante up people, its your turn to write and its our turn to read.
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:45:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Mark";}s:7:"summary";s:1577:"<p>There are approximately ten days left in the <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">Blogging Essay Competition</a> and there have been <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/24/blogging-the-not-so-new-trend/">two</a> <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/27/no-inner-blogger-dont-bother/">entries</a> so far. A lot of people have been very helpful in reviewing these essays and many people have posted helpful comments and suggestions for the authors. However, we are still far shy of the ten entries required to judge the competition.</p>
<p>A couple of authors have expressed their concern for irking the wrath of readers or making mistakes in their commentary that they will later regret. I am sure that I am not the first to say that every blogger has made a mistake at one time or the other and paid dearly for it. I admit that I have made many of them but I have not let them stop me. The power is in accepting your mistake, correcting yourself and making change to ensure it does not happen again. I believe that is all part and parcel of this wondrous world of instant publication that we call blogging.<br />
So where is your entry?  Did I lose you entry in my hordes of spam or is the threat of a bad grade the only way to prompt essay production? Is the 1000 word minimum too daunting? Is the reward sum too paltry (I already know the answer to that)? Or is the fear of public scrutiny too much? Ante up people, its your turn to write and its our turn to read.
</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: Google CAPTCHA";s:4:"guid";s:47:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/03/google-captcha/";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://photomatt.net/2006/12/03/google-captcha/";s:11:"description";s:239:"<p><a href="http://alastairc.ac/2006/12/why-does-google-use-captcha/">Why does google use CAPTCHA?</a> Hat tip: <a href="http://joeclark.org/">Joe Clark</a>.<a href="http://alastairc.ac/2006/12/why-does-google-use-captcha/"><br />
</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:07:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:239:"<p><a href="http://alastairc.ac/2006/12/why-does-google-use-captcha/">Why does google use CAPTCHA?</a> Hat tip: <a href="http://joeclark.org/">Joe Clark</a>.<a href="http://alastairc.ac/2006/12/why-does-google-use-captcha/"><br />
</a></p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Alex King: An Engineering Brain";s:4:"guid";s:56:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/02/an-engineering-brain";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/02/an-engineering-brain";s:11:"description";s:3597:"<p>Sometimes I hate having an <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare1.gif" alt=":scare:" class="wp-smiley" /> engineering brain <img src="http://alexking.org/images/smilies/ak_scare2.gif" alt=":/scare:" class="wp-smiley" /> . </p>
<p>Last week I was <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/share-this-11#comment-53070">asked about creating a mobile friendly version</a> of my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">Share This plugin</a> and I&#8217;ve also been asked about creating a version that works if JavaScript is disabled. Now I don&#8217;t think that realistically many folks are going to want to be posting stuff to a social bookmarking site from their cell phone, nor do I think there is a huge crowd of del.icio.us and digg users that browse with JavaScript disabled; so this wasn&#8217;t something I really wanted to do. It just didn&#8217;t pass the 80-20 test.</p>
<p>However, it did stick in the back of my mind and nagged at me. I hate it when something I&#8217;ve created is lacking in some way - especially something little like this. The final straw on this though, was the realization that I could enable the &#8216;Share This&#8217; link in feeds if I had an alternate interface besides the little inline pop-up.</p>
<p>So a few hours of hacking later, I&#8217;ve implemented this on my site&#8217;s feed to test out<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165100826904n" id="fn1165100826904" class="footnote">1</a></sup>. Here is the <a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2547&#038;akst_action=share-this">page you&#8217;ll see if you click to share an item from a feed</a><sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165101272299n" id="fn1165101272299" class="footnote">2</a></sup>.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/312774663/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/99/312774663_549bf65445_m.jpg" width="233" height="240" alt="Share This Page" /></a></p>
<p>Apologies to my feed subscribers for all of my feed items showing up as unread, hopefully that won&#8217;t need to happen again in the near future.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Added screenshot.</p>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="fn1165100826904n">And checked it in to SVN, if you want to play with it. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165100826904">back</a>]</li>
<li id="fn1165101272299n">I didn&#8217;t enable it in my mobile interface, but the capability is in there. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165101272299">back</a>]</li>
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<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2547&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2547" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<p>Last week I was <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/share-this-11#comment-53070">asked about creating a mobile friendly version</a> of my <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">Share This plugin</a> and I&#8217;ve also been asked about creating a version that works if JavaScript is disabled. Now I don&#8217;t think that realistically many folks are going to want to be posting stuff to a social bookmarking site from their cell phone, nor do I think there is a huge crowd of del.icio.us and digg users that browse with JavaScript disabled; so this wasn&#8217;t something I really wanted to do. It just didn&#8217;t pass the 80-20 test.</p>
<p>However, it did stick in the back of my mind and nagged at me. I hate it when something I&#8217;ve created is lacking in some way - especially something little like this. The final straw on this though, was the realization that I could enable the &#8216;Share This&#8217; link in feeds if I had an alternate interface besides the little inline pop-up.</p>
<p>So a few hours of hacking later, I&#8217;ve implemented this on my site&#8217;s feed to test out<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165100826904n" id="fn1165100826904" class="footnote">1</a></sup>. Here is the <a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2547&#038;akst_action=share-this">page you&#8217;ll see if you click to share an item from a feed</a><sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165101272299n" id="fn1165101272299" class="footnote">2</a></sup>.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/312774663/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/99/312774663_549bf65445_m.jpg" width="233" height="240" alt="Share This Page" /></a></p>
<p>Apologies to my feed subscribers for all of my feed items showing up as unread, hopefully that won&#8217;t need to happen again in the near future.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Added screenshot.</p>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="fn1165100826904n">And checked it in to SVN, if you want to play with it. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165100826904">back</a>]</li>
<li id="fn1165101272299n">I didn&#8217;t enable it in my mobile interface, but the capability is in there. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1165101272299">back</a>]</li>
</ol>
<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2547&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2547" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
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<p>Once you get a few years worth of content (posts and comments) in your blog, you&#8217;ve likely got some pretty good and interesting content in there. Over the last 2 years, I&#8217;ve been working on creating new ways to leverage my content.</p>
<p>While the standard blog themes for WordPress, Moveable Type and others do a good job of creating readable and browse-able interfaces for your content. What they don&#8217;t do is highlight the most interesting content from your blog.</p>
<p>While plugins like Share This can help push your content out to other social sites, what about showing the best content from your own site?</p>
<p>I created my Popularity Contest plugin as an attempt to solve this from one direction - visitor interaction. It does a good job, highlighting the most popular content on my site and showing contextual popularity lists in categories and month archives.</p>
<p>What Popularity Contest <em>doesn&#8217;t</em> do is allow me to highlight posts that <em>I</em> think are important and interesting. In a way, Popularity Contest shows you what is which of your posts have gotten indexed highest for common searches in search engines. There are times when people may show up at a post (or a joke that I re-blogged from an e-mail, my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2004/11/22/womens-asses">Women&#8217;s Asses</a> post comes to mind here) on a completely unrelated search.</p>
<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s my site and I&#8217;m going to highlight some content that <em>I</em> feel is important. Enter my <a href="http://alexking.org/articles">Articles page</a>. This is a rather simple implementation, I just add a custom field to a post in WordPress and it shows up on the Articles page, under topic headings<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1164916135290n" id="fn1164916135290" class="footnote">1</a></sup>. I can make this available as a plugin if there is demand.</p>
<p>So now I feel like I&#8217;ve got the content pretty well covered. Popularity Contest picks up the stuff you guys find most interesting, and I can push things I think are important up to the top on the Articles page. But that isn&#8217;t everything you can do with your content.</p>
<p>The content itself has some interesting information in it - for example, you&#8217;ve probably got a fair number of outbound links in there. We can certainly do something interesting with that content as well.</p>
<p>My old site had a links page, and when I went to look at it to migrate it over I saw that is was embarrassingly out of date. Why maintain that list manually when I&#8217;ve got lots of links in my site content I can use to keep that list automatically updated. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done on my new <a href="http://alexking.org/links">Links page</a>.</p>
<p>Look for this to be released as a plugin in the near future - I&#8217;m currently testing some changes I made to work around a few issues. More on that in a follow-up post.</p>
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<li id="fn1164916135290n">Sometimes more than once due to being in multiple topics - I don&#8217;t feel this is necessarily a problem. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1164916135290">back</a>]</li>
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<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://alexking.org/?p=2528&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2528" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a>
</p>

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<p>Once you get a few years worth of content (posts and comments) in your blog, you&#8217;ve likely got some pretty good and interesting content in there. Over the last 2 years, I&#8217;ve been working on creating new ways to leverage my content.</p>
<p>While the standard blog themes for WordPress, Moveable Type and others do a good job of creating readable and browse-able interfaces for your content. What they don&#8217;t do is highlight the most interesting content from your blog.</p>
<p>While plugins like Share This can help push your content out to other social sites, what about showing the best content from your own site?</p>
<p>I created my Popularity Contest plugin as an attempt to solve this from one direction - visitor interaction. It does a good job, highlighting the most popular content on my site and showing contextual popularity lists in categories and month archives.</p>
<p>What Popularity Contest <em>doesn&#8217;t</em> do is allow me to highlight posts that <em>I</em> think are important and interesting. In a way, Popularity Contest shows you what is which of your posts have gotten indexed highest for common searches in search engines. There are times when people may show up at a post (or a joke that I re-blogged from an e-mail, my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2004/11/22/womens-asses">Women&#8217;s Asses</a> post comes to mind here) on a completely unrelated search.</p>
<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s my site and I&#8217;m going to highlight some content that <em>I</em> feel is important. Enter my <a href="http://alexking.org/articles">Articles page</a>. This is a rather simple implementation, I just add a custom field to a post in WordPress and it shows up on the Articles page, under topic headings<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1164916135290n" id="fn1164916135290" class="footnote">1</a></sup>. I can make this available as a plugin if there is demand.</p>
<p>So now I feel like I&#8217;ve got the content pretty well covered. Popularity Contest picks up the stuff you guys find most interesting, and I can push things I think are important up to the top on the Articles page. But that isn&#8217;t everything you can do with your content.</p>
<p>The content itself has some interesting information in it - for example, you&#8217;ve probably got a fair number of outbound links in there. We can certainly do something interesting with that content as well.</p>
<p>My old site had a links page, and when I went to look at it to migrate it over I saw that is was embarrassingly out of date. Why maintain that list manually when I&#8217;ve got lots of links in my site content I can use to keep that list automatically updated. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done on my new <a href="http://alexking.org/links">Links page</a>.</p>
<p>Look for this to be released as a plugin in the near future - I&#8217;m currently testing some changes I made to work around a few issues. More on that in a follow-up post.</p>
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<li id="fn1164916135290n">Sometimes more than once due to being in multiple topics - I don&#8217;t feel this is necessarily a problem. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/feed?cat=16#fn1164916135290">back</a>]</li>
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<h5>Filtering, whitelisting and blacklisting</h5>
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<h5>Comment analysis programs</h5>
<p>Programs like the <a href="http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/">Bad Behaviour plugin</a> for <a href="http://wordpress.org">Wordpress</a> take all comments received and analyze them for telltale signs of spaminess. Using data hidden in the HTTP headers like user agent information it is possible to tell if a comment came from a legitimate user or a spambot.  The downside of 	[ghly recommended for all users. We&#8217;ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it&#8217;s a pretty solid release across the board.
Upgrading is fairly simple, just overwrite your [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:932:"<p>WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">available for immediate download</a>. This release contains several important security fixes, so it&#8217;s highly recommended for all users. We&#8217;ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it&#8217;s a pretty solid release across the board.</p>
<p>Upgrading is fairly simple, just overwrite your old files with the latest from the download. If you&#8217;d like more thorough instructions, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">the Codex</a> is always the best spot.</p>
<p>Since this is a security release, if you have any friends with blogs make sure to remind them to upgrade and lend a hand if they&#8217;re not too savvy. We&#8217;re all in this together.</p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://veryeasy.ca/">Geoff</a> and <a href="http://txfx.net/">Mark Jaquith</a> for identifying.</p>
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<p>The conference will be a 1-day event, with a party that night, and be free to anyone and everyone. We&#8217;re aiming to do it in the style of BarCamp, so the agenda will be largely determined by you guys. I&#8217;ve posted a <a href="http://photomatt.net/2006/07/09/wordcamp/">little bit more about the ideas behind WordCamp on my blog</a>.</p>
<p>I know it&#8217;s relatively short notice, especially for folks in other countries, but if you think you can make it or if you just want more information <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">check out WordCamp.org</a>, where we&#8217;ll coordinating the event. I&#8217;m really looking forward to meeting people I interact with online every day.</p>
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<p>I know it&#8217;s relatively short notice, especially for folks in other countries, but if you think you can make it or if you just want more information <a href="http://wordcamp.org/">check out WordCamp.org</a>, where we&#8217;ll coordinating the event. I&#8217;m really looking forward to meeting people I interact with online every day.</p>
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<p>All you need to help out is the ability to install and run WordPress, folks of all skill levels are invited to join. We need people testing as much as we need people coding. (If not a little more.)</p>
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<p>All you need to help out is the ability to install and run WordPress, folks of all skill levels are invited to join. We need people testing as much as we need people coding. (If not a little more.)</p>
";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.0.3";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/06/wordpress-203/";s:8:"comments";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/06/wordpress-203/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:49:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/06/wordpress-203/";s:11:"description";s:321:"The latest in the stable 2.0 series, 2.0.3, is now available for download. This is a bug fix and security release, and is recommended for all WordPress users. In addition to an issue that was raised on Bugtraq a few days ago, we&#8217;ve also backported a number of security enhancements from 2.1 to further enhance [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:885:"<p>The latest in the stable 2.0 series, 2.0.3, <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">is now available for download</a>. This is a bug fix and security release, and is recommended for all WordPress users. In addition to an issue that was raised on Bugtraq a few days ago, we&#8217;ve also backported a number of security enhancements from 2.1 to further enhance and protect your blog.</p>
<p>For the curious, this <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&#038;milestone=2.0.3">release includes</a>:</p>
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<p>For the curious, this <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&#038;milestone=2.0.3">release includes</a>:</p>
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";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:26:"WordPattern (April Fools!)";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/04/wordpattern/";s:8:"comments";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/04/wordpattern/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:22:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:19:"DevelopmentReleases";s:4:"guid";s:53:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/04/wordpattern/";s:11:"description";s:377:"On behalf of the WordPress community, I&#8217;m proud to announce a merger we&#8217;ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen&#8217;s dog &#8212; WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern. &#8220;WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.&#8221;
As with any great union, there [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1007:"<p>On behalf of the WordPress community, I&#8217;m proud to announce a merger we&#8217;ve had on our minds since <a href="http://textism.com/oliver/daily/">the first time we saw Dean Allen&#8217;s dog</a> &#8212; WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, <a href="http://wordpattern.org/">WordPattern</a>. &#8220;WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.&#8221;</p>
<p>As with any great union, there were compromises involved. &#8220;I&#8217;m going all-Georgia, all the time. And blue is the new yellow.&#8221; said Dean Allen. Matt Mullenweg mused &#8220;Ten custom fields should be enough for anybody!&#8221;</p>
<p>We have a list of <a href="http://wordpattern.org/features">new features</a>, <a href="http://wordpattern.org/download">downloads</a>, and <a href="http://wordpattern.org/">much more available on WordPattern.org</a>. Our respective websites are being decommisioned so it&#8217;s best to go there for new information.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/04/wordpattern/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:377:"On behalf of the WordPress community, I&#8217;m proud to announce a merger we&#8217;ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen&#8217;s dog &#8212; WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern. &#8220;WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.&#8221;
As with any great union, there [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1007:"<p>On behalf of the WordPress community, I&#8217;m proud to announce a merger we&#8217;ve had on our minds since <a href="http://textism.com/oliver/daily/">the first time we saw Dean Allen&#8217;s dog</a> &#8212; WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, <a href="http://wordpattern.org/">WordPattern</a>. &#8220;WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.&#8221;</p>
<p>As with any great union, there were compromises involved. &#8220;I&#8217;m going all-Georgia, all the time. And blue is the new yellow.&#8221; said Dean Allen. Matt Mullenweg mused &#8220;Ten custom fields should be enough for anybody!&#8221;</p>
<p>We have a list of <a href="http://wordpattern.org/features">new features</a>, <a href="http://wordpattern.org/download">downloads</a>, and <a href="http://wordpattern.org/">much more available on WordPattern.org</a>. Our respective websites are being decommisioned so it&#8217;s best to go there for new information.</p>
";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Widgets Plugin";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/widgets-plugin/";s:8:"comments";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/widgets-plugin/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:31:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:18:"DevelopmentWidgets";s:4:"guid";s:56:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/widgets-plugin/";s:11:"description";s:326:"Widgets are an easy way for you to arrange and rearrange your sidebar to your hearts content without touching a line of code. We first launched WordPress Widgets (WPW) it on WordPress.com a month ago and the response was great. Now we&#8217;re ready to release the plugin to the world. If adoption goes well, we&#8217;ll [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1588:"<p><a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">Widgets</a> are an easy way for you to arrange and rearrange your sidebar to your hearts content without touching a line of code. We first launched WordPress Widgets (WPW) it on WordPress.com a month ago and <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/02/25/wordpress-widgets/">the response</a> <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/03/07/recent-widgets/">was</a> <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/03/10/more-widgets/">great</a>. Now we&#8217;re ready to release the plugin to the world. If adoption goes well, we&#8217;ll consider rolling it into the next version of WordPress.</p>
<p>You can find out more information and <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">download the plugin on the new Widgets page</a>.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a developer, writing a WordPress Widget is <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/wp-tutorial-your-first-wp-plugin/">as easy as a plugin</a> and we&#8217;ve even <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/api/">documented all the APIs for you</a>, as well as including guides for <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/">theme authors</a> and <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/plugins/">current plugin authors</a>.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s the potential audience for widgets?</strong> In addition to the <strong>130,000+</strong> blogs on WordPress.com, you have the potential to tap in to the <strong>5,000</strong> people downloading WordPress every single day and the <strong>hundreds of thousands</strong> of existing WordPress blogs out there.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:61:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/widgets-plugin/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:326:"Widgets are an easy way for you to arrange and rearrange your sidebar to your hearts content without touching a line of code. We first launched WordPress Widgets (WPW) it on WordPress.com a month ago and the response was great. Now we&#8217;re ready to release the plugin to the world. If adoption goes well, we&#8217;ll [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1588:"<p><a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">Widgets</a> are an easy way for you to arrange and rearrange your sidebar to your hearts content without touching a line of code. We first launched WordPress Widgets (WPW) it on WordPress.com a month ago and <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/02/25/wordpress-widgets/">the response</a> <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/03/07/recent-widgets/">was</a> <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/03/10/more-widgets/">great</a>. Now we&#8217;re ready to release the plugin to the world. If adoption goes well, we&#8217;ll consider rolling it into the next version of WordPress.</p>
<p>You can find out more information and <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">download the plugin on the new Widgets page</a>.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a developer, writing a WordPress Widget is <a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/wp-tutorial-your-first-wp-plugin/">as easy as a plugin</a> and we&#8217;ve even <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/api/">documented all the APIs for you</a>, as well as including guides for <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/">theme authors</a> and <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/plugins/">current plugin authors</a>.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s the potential audience for widgets?</strong> In addition to the <strong>130,000+</strong> blogs on WordPress.com, you have the potential to tap in to the <strong>5,000</strong> people downloading WordPress every single day and the <strong>hundreds of thousands</strong> of existing WordPress blogs out there.</p>
";}i:9;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:22:"2.0.2 Security Release";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/security-202/";s:8:"comments";s:63:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/security-202/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:43:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:19:"DevelopmentReleases";s:4:"guid";s:54:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/security-202/";s:11:"description";s:360:"An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.
The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team. Thanks to [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1053:"<p>An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">latest version 2.0.2</a> contains several bugfixes and security fixes.</p>
<p>The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team. Thanks to Michael Boman, Mark Jaquith, Robert Deaton, and David House for assisting with this release.</p>
<p>Just a quick note: this is different than the snake-oil reports that went out on some security lists a few days ago. There were a couple, but they were either not actual security problems, too small to warrant a release, or just patently false. Remember: just because you read it on a mailing list doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s true. We&#8217;d be the first people to panic if there was an actual problem.</p>
<p>As always, when something serious crosses our desks we jump on it and get a well-tested release out as soon as possible.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:59:"http://wordpress.org/development/2006/03/security-202/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:360:"An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.
The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team. Thanks to [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1053:"<p>An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">latest version 2.0.2</a> contains several bugfixes and security fixes.</p>
<p>The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team. Thanks to Michael Boman, Mark Jaquith, Robert Deaton, and David House for assisting with this release.</p>
<p>Just a quick note: this is different than the snake-oil reports that went out on some security lists a few days ago. There were a couple, but they were either not actual security problems, too small to warrant a release, or just patently false. Remember: just because you read it on a mailing list doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s true. We&#8217;d be the first people to panic if there was an actual problem.</p>
<p>As always, when something serious crosses our desks we jump on it and get a well-tested release out as soon as possible.</p>
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<p>A while ago, I revamped WordPress&#8217; inline uploading functionality to be more pluggable, cacheable, maintainable and (hopefully) intuitive.  A hundred bugs later, it seems to be working pretty well.</p>
<p>This time around, the issue was not how WP displayed the data, but how it stores it.</p>
<p>In trying to make things leaner and meaner on WordPress.com, we reworked some of the behind-the-scenes directory structures on our servers.  This should have been totally transparent to the user, but, of course, it wasn&#8217;t.  It broke our image handling.</p>
<p>Each file uploaded to WordPress is stored as a special type of post called an &#8220;attachment&#8221;.  In the post and postmeta tables, WordPress stores things like file URL, file path on the server, image dimensions, image thumbnail info, etc.  So to figure out anything we want about an uploaded file, all we have to do is essentially <code>get_post()</code> and a few <code>get_post_meta()</code>s.  Sounds great.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>Two reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li>To answer a question like &#8220;Where is this file located on the server&#8221;, we have to <code>get_post_meta()</code> every time for the answer.  With such a generic function, it&#8217;s impossible for plugins to filter that data on the fly even for this really simple question.</li>
<li>WordPress stores the data in a <em>really</em> inconvenient way; everything is absolute: paths, urls, you name it.</li>
</ol>
<p>Because of the absolute paths, lack of API, and the aforementioned directory restructuring, we had hardcoded into our DB tens of thousands (a blind guess) of incorrect file locations and no way to filter them.  Doing DB updates across hundreds of thousands of tables (not a blind guess) replicated on dozens of servers was not an option.</p>
<p>Partial solution (now implemented in WordPress core): Write a basic API for getting and putting the data.  <code>wp_get_attachment_metadata()</code>, <code>wp_update_attachment_metadata()</code>, <code>get_attached_file()</code>, <code>update_attached_file()</code> (the lack of parallelism between function names, and the ambiguity in those names is an historical artifact) are all nicely filterable.</p>
<p>Improvements that still could be made: Don&#8217;t store absolute data.  This is better for portability too. (Exceptition: guid - but don&#8217;t use it for the URL).</p>
<p>Related improvements that could be made:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>wp_get_attachment_url()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_get_thumbnail_file()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_get_thumbnail_url()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_attachment_is_image()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_mime_type_icon()</code></li>
<li>Rework <code>get_attachment_icon()</code> given the above</li>
<li>Kill reliance on or rework <code>get_attachment_innerHTML()</code> (see above)</li>
</ul>
<p>Vaguely related improvements that could be made:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>wp_handle_upload()</code> is a little awkward (but nice and robust!).  Maybe wrap it?  That might be silly.</li>
<li><code>wp_generate_thumbnail_filename()</code></li>
<li>Make thumbnail creation hookable and provide above convenience function</li>
</ul>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:54:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"mdawaffe";}s:7:"summary";s:3275:"<p>In debugging some stuff here on WordPress.com, I dived (once more) into the image handling guts of WordPress.</p>
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<p>This time around, the issue was not how WP displayed the data, but how it stores it.</p>
<p>In trying to make things leaner and meaner on WordPress.com, we reworked some of the behind-the-scenes directory structures on our servers.  This should have been totally transparent to the user, but, of course, it wasn&#8217;t.  It broke our image handling.</p>
<p>Each file uploaded to WordPress is stored as a special type of post called an &#8220;attachment&#8221;.  In the post and postmeta tables, WordPress stores things like file URL, file path on the server, image dimensions, image thumbnail info, etc.  So to figure out anything we want about an uploaded file, all we have to do is essentially <code>get_post()</code> and a few <code>get_post_meta()</code>s.  Sounds great.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>Two reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li>To answer a question like &#8220;Where is this file located on the server&#8221;, we have to <code>get_post_meta()</code> every time for the answer.  With such a generic function, it&#8217;s impossible for plugins to filter that data on the fly even for this really simple question.</li>
<li>WordPress stores the data in a <em>really</em> inconvenient way; everything is absolute: paths, urls, you name it.</li>
</ol>
<p>Because of the absolute paths, lack of API, and the aforementioned directory restructuring, we had hardcoded into our DB tens of thousands (a blind guess) of incorrect file locations and no way to filter them.  Doing DB updates across hundreds of thousands of tables (not a blind guess) replicated on dozens of servers was not an option.</p>
<p>Partial solution (now implemented in WordPress core): Write a basic API for getting and putting the data.  <code>wp_get_attachment_metadata()</code>, <code>wp_update_attachment_metadata()</code>, <code>get_attached_file()</code>, <code>update_attached_file()</code> (the lack of parallelism between function names, and the ambiguity in those names is an historical artifact) are all nicely filterable.</p>
<p>Improvements that still could be made: Don&#8217;t store absolute data.  This is better for portability too. (Exceptition: guid - but don&#8217;t use it for the URL).</p>
<p>Related improvements that could be made:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>wp_get_attachment_url()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_get_thumbnail_file()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_get_thumbnail_url()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_attachment_is_image()</code></li>
<li><code>wp_mime_type_icon()</code></li>
<li>Rework <code>get_attachment_icon()</code> given the above</li>
<li>Kill reliance on or rework <code>get_attachment_innerHTML()</code> (see above)</li>
</ul>
<p>Vaguely related improvements that could be made:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>wp_handle_upload()</code> is a little awkward (but nice and robust!).  Maybe wrap it?  That might be silly.</li>
<li><code>wp_generate_thumbnail_filename()</code></li>
<li>Make thumbnail creation hookable and provide above convenience function</li>
</ul>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Weblog Tools Collection: CAPTCHAs, who needs them?";s:4:"guid";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/12/05/captchas-who-needs-them/";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/57470870/";s:11:"description";s:7220:"<p><small>This is the fourth entrant in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2006/11/13/wltc-blogging-essay-competition/">The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com</a> If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.</small></p>
<p><small>This is written by Mark Styles from <a href="http://www.lambic.co.uk">Lambic</a></small></p>
<p>They&#8217;re everywhere, and they&#8217;re annoying. They&#8217;re called CAPTCHAs and they&#8217;ve become a ubiquitious part of blog commenting. Bloggers use them as a quick and dirty solution to an annoying problem without consideration for the annoyance they will cause the reader.   I want to persuade all bloggers who are using them to please stop.</p>
<h4>What are they?</h4>
<p>CAPTCHA stands for &#8220;completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart&#8221;. I know it should really be CAPTTTTCHA but hey, I didn&#8217;t come up with the acronym.   Before bigots destroyed his life, Alan Turing posited the idea of a test to determine machine sentience. His test was designed to decide if a computer had achieved artificial intelligence. So far no computer has passed a Turing test, but the CAPTCHA uses the idea of a Turing test in reverse, testing if a supposed person is really a person and not a computer program pretending to be a person.  So a CAPTCHA is a test to make sure the person posting a comment (or anything else, but I&#8217;m concentrating on the blogging usage here) is really a person, and not a spam generator trying to post comments about card games, prescription drugs or sex. It usually involves an image showing some distorted text, requiring the user to type in what they see in the distorted text.</p>
<h4>Why are they bad?</h4>
<p>Anything that stop spammers is good, right? Well generally yes, but some things that stop spammers are better than others; so much better that the inferior solutions become un-necessary. There are many problems with CAPTCHAs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Any extra work required to comment is likely to deter some people from commenting at all.</li>
<li>Sometimes the images are so distorted they&#8217;re almost impossible to read, even with perfect eyesight.</li>
<li>CAPTCHAs are hackable. Spammers are smart, they can get past many of our barriers.</li>
<li>Visually impaired users are completely excluded (although there are audio CAPTCHAs available now).</li>
<li>Dyslexics have a hard time too.</li>
<li>There are better and less intrusive solutions.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What are these better solutions?</h4>
<p>Hopefully by now I&#8217;ve convinced you that CAPTCHAs are not the best solution to the spam flood. Now it&#8217;s time to bring in the alternatives, but before I offer my alternatives, we should decide what our requirements are. An effective and non-intrusive spam blocker should:</p>
<ul>
<li>Require nothing or as little as possible from the valid commenter.</li>
<li>Require as little effort as possible from the webmaster/blog owner.</li>
<li>Work on as many blog platforms as possible, or have similar alternatives for other blogging platforms.</li>
<li>Stop as much spam as possible.</li>
<li>Not interfere with valid comments</li>
</ul>
<p>Here are the solutions which I feel best meet these requirements:</p>
<h5>Centralized spam database</h5>
<p>This is what I use, in the form of <a href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a>. The idea is that all spam comments get submitted to a central server. Each time someone comments on your blog the comment gets checked against the central database. If the comment looks like spam it is automatically flagged as such. The person leaving the comment didn&#8217;t have to do anything. The blogger just has to check for false positives occasionally. Everybody is happy.   So far Akismet has stopped over 15,000 comments from being published on my blog with about three false positives (comments marked as spam which were not spam) that I know of and about 5 false negatives (spam comments that did not get marked as spam).

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