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WordPress 2.3 will be here before you know it! We’re putting out a beta release every Monday until WordPress 2.3 ships on September 24th. Today the second beta drops for your testing pleasure. We’ve fixed a bunch of bugs in the last week — thanks to everyone who participated! That said, this is still rough code, so you should only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your blog’s data.
\nStill want to play? Go ahead and join the wp-testers mailing list and download beta 2 here.
\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:66:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23-beta-2/feed/\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:315:\"WordPress 2.3 will be here before you know it! We’re putting out a beta release every Monday until WordPress 2.3 ships on September 24th. Today the second beta drops for your testing pleasure. We’ve fixed a bunch of bugs in the last week — thanks to everyone who participated! That said, [...]\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:711:\"WordPress 2.3 will be here before you know it! We’re putting out a beta release every Monday until WordPress 2.3 ships on September 24th. Today the second beta drops for your testing pleasure. We’ve fixed a bunch of bugs in the last week — thanks to everyone who participated! That said, this is still rough code, so you should only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your blog’s data.
\nStill want to play? Go ahead and join the wp-testers mailing list and download beta 2 here.
\n\";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:20:\"WordPress 2.3 Beta 1\";s:4:\"link\";s:51:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/23-beta-1/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:60:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/23-beta-1/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:44:28 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:11:\"Development\";s:4:\"guid\";s:51:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/23-beta-1/\";s:11:\"description\";s:353:\"The past 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on the next version of WordPress, 2.3. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.3 and we’re hoping the more adventurous and savvy among you will help us test it.\nSome of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:809:\"The past 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on the next version of WordPress, 2.3. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.3 and we’re hoping the more adventurous and savvy among you will help us test it.
\nSome of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.
\nHowever all of the new functionality is still very rough, so only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your data religiously. If you’re interested you can join the wp-testers mailing list and download the beta here.
\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:56:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/23-beta-1/feed/\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:353:\"The past 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on the next version of WordPress, 2.3. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.3 and we’re hoping the more adventurous and savvy among you will help us test it.\nSome of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and [...]\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:809:\"The past 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on the next version of WordPress, 2.3. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.3 and we’re hoping the more adventurous and savvy among you will help us test it.
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\n\";}i:2;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"WordPress 2.2.2 and 2.0.11\";s:4:\"link\";s:64:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/wordpress-222-and-2011/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:73:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/wordpress-222-and-2011/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:22:25 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:64:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/wordpress-222-and-2011/\";s:11:\"description\";s:323:\"Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases include only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause any plugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not to upgrade.\nOn our Trac you can see the bugs [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1393:\"Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases include only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause any plugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not to upgrade.
\nOn our Trac you can see the bugs closed for 2.2.2 and 2.0.11 to get more details about the problems fixed. With a little more Trac magic you can see all the changed files for 2.2.2 or 2.0.11.
\nOur download page is always the best place to get the latest release, and our legacy page now has the latest in the 2.0 branch.
\nAs always, we have upgrade instructions available and an extended upgrade guide.
\nThanks to Alex C. and Benjamin Flesch for help with this release.
\n\";}s:3:\"wfw\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentrss\";s:69:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/wordpress-222-and-2011/feed/\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:323:\"Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases include only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause any plugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not to upgrade.\nOn our Trac you can see the bugs [...]\";s:12:\"atom_content\";s:1393:\"Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases include only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause any plugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not to upgrade.
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\nOur download page is always the best place to get the latest release, and our legacy page now has the latest in the 2.0 branch.
\nAs always, we have upgrade instructions available and an extended upgrade guide.
\nThanks to Alex C. and Benjamin Flesch for help with this release.
\n\";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:34:\"New Shirts; International Shipping\";s:4:\"link\";s:52:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/07/new-shirts/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:61:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/07/new-shirts/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:06:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:5:\"Store\";s:4:\"guid\";s:52:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/07/new-shirts/\";s:11:\"description\";s:326:\"One of the biggest complaints when we originally launched our t-shirt store was that folks outside of the United States, which is the majority of our traffic, were unable to order them. Now you can! (And we have a new style available.)\nAt our official shop.wordpress.net you can order the new red t-shirt in either manly [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:822:\"One of the biggest complaints when we originally launched our t-shirt store was that folks outside of the United States, which is the majority of our traffic, were unable to order them. Now you can! (And we have a new style available.)
\nAt our official shop.wordpress.net you can order the new red t-shirt in either manly or girlie styles and they ship almost anywhere in the world. The shirts are high-quality American Apparel, and are screen-printed. Styles are available for a limited time, we’ll probably to about 2-3 a year, and once they’re gone the style will never be printed again.
\nUpdate: Indigo the t-shirt company has a great post about the launch.
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\nAt our official shop.wordpress.net you can order the new red t-shirt in either manly or girlie styles and they ship almost anywhere in the world. The shirts are high-quality American Apparel, and are screen-printed. Styles are available for a limited time, we’ll probably to about 2-3 a year, and once they’re gone the style will never be printed again.
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\n\";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"WordCamp in San Francisco\";s:4:\"link\";s:67:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/wordcamp-in-san-francisco/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:76:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/wordcamp-in-san-francisco/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:49:14 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:14:\"EventsWordCamp\";s:4:\"guid\";s:67:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/wordcamp-in-san-francisco/\";s:11:\"description\";s:315:\"Last year over 350 WordPressers of all ages and experience levels gathered in San Francisco to share a day together. We’re now halfway through 2007, and there is a new WordCamp happening on July 21 and 22 that I hope many of you can make it to.\nThis year we’re expanding the conference to two days [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1860:\"Last year over 350 WordPressers of all ages and experience levels gathered in San Francisco to share a day together. We’re now halfway through 2007, and there is a new WordCamp happening on July 21 and 22 that I hope many of you can make it to.
\nThis year we’re expanding the conference to two days instead of one with the first focusing on user and blog-facing topics, like search engine optimization and podcasting, and the second day will focus on more development topics, such as usability, iterative design, and the future of publishing. Speakers this year include several WordPress developers, Matt Cutts, John Dvorak, Robert Hoekman Jr., Dan Kuykendall, Om Malik, Rashmi Sinha, Lorelle Vanfossen, and Dave Winer. Check out the entire schedule.
\nJust like last year there will be free lunch (with the legendary BBQ on Sunday) and t-shirts for everybody, and a party on Saturday night. Unlike last year we’re asking for $25 to help cover costs, but if that’s a problem there are scholarships available. Registration will be closing July 9th and there will not be tickets at the door, so get yours soon.
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\n\";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:15:\"WordPress 2.2.1\";s:4:\"link\";s:55:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/wordpress-221/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:64:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/wordpress-221/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:49:59 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:55:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/wordpress-221/\";s:11:\"description\";s:307:\"WordPress 2.2.1 is now available. 2.2.1 is a bug fix release for the 2.2 series. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:2533:\"WordPress 2.2.1 is now available. 2.2.1 is a bug fix release for the 2.2 series. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely polished 2.2.1 release. The full list of bugs fixed in 2.2.1 is available here. Here are some highlights.
\nUnfortunately, 2.2.1 is not just a bug fix release. Some security issues came to light during 2.2.1 development, making 2.2.1 a required upgrade. 2.2.1 addresses the following vulnerabilities:
\nSpecial thanks to Alexander Concha for his continued assistance in making WordPress more secure. Special thanks also to Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software for his improvements to our XML-RPC implementation.
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\nUnfortunately, 2.2.1 is not just a bug fix release. Some security issues came to light during 2.2.1 development, making 2.2.1 a required upgrade. 2.2.1 addresses the following vulnerabilities:
\nSpecial thanks to Alexander Concha for his continued assistance in making WordPress more secure. Special thanks also to Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software for his improvements to our XML-RPC implementation.
\n\";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:18:\"WebWare 100 Winner\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/webware-100-winner/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:69:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/webware-100-winner/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:32:53 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:4:\"Meta\";s:4:\"guid\";s:60:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/webware-100-winner/\";s:11:\"description\";s:303:\"The results are in, and WordPress is the winner of the Webware 100 in the Publishing category. Thanks to everyone who voted, but thank you even more to all the great people who make WordPress what it is. It’s an honor to have so many of you entrust your blogs to our software, and it’s [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1152:\"The results are in, and WordPress is the winner of the Webware 100 in the Publishing category. Thanks to everyone who voted, but thank you even more to all the great people who make WordPress what it is. It’s an honor to have so many of you entrust your blogs to our software, and it’s an incredible opportunity for us to live up to the high standards you’ve set. Here’s what Rafe Needleman wrote about the results:
\n\nWordPress got the most votes. I was interested to see the Drupal CMS platform placing high in this category–above the consumer-oriented publishing products Typepad and Vox. Even combined, these two Six Apart services didn’t come close to winning the same number of votes as Drupal.
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\n\";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:12:\"Two Contests\";s:4:\"link\";s:54:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/two-contests/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:63:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/two-contests/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:12:40 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:6:\"Events\";s:4:\"guid\";s:54:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/06/two-contests/\";s:11:\"description\";s:331:\"There are two contests going on in the WordPress community right now. If you’d like a chance to flex your WordPress skillz and perhaps win a prize and lifelong fame, you should consider dropping your code in the hat.\nThe first is the Sandbox Designs competition, which is like a theme competition, but working only with [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1220:\"There are two contests going on in the WordPress community right now. If you’d like a chance to flex your WordPress skillz and perhaps win a prize and lifelong fame, you should consider dropping your code in the hat.
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\nSecond our friends at Weblog Tools Collection are running a WordPress Plugin competition. They have a blog to track all the entries, but if you’re participating don’t forget to submit your code to the Plugin directory.
\nBoth competitions require entries to be under the same GPL license that WordPress is, so regardless of who wins they’ll make the entire community much richer. (Remember, WordPress itself was written on the base of existing GPL code!)
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\n\";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:13:\"WordPress 2.2\";s:4:\"link\";s:54:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/05/wordpress-22/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:63:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/05/wordpress-22/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:55 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:8:\"Releases\";s:4:\"guid\";s:54:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/05/wordpress-22/\";s:11:\"description\";s:390:\"On behalf of the entire WordPress team, I’m proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. It’s named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.\nGoodies:\n\nWordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:5828:\"On behalf of the entire WordPress team, I’m proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. It’s named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.
\nIn addition there were also dozens of UI and accessibility improvements, ranging from more concise wording around options and links to things like a view and preview link above the content box when you’re editing a post or page, as well as several important security fixes. We don’t plan to continue to support the 2.1 branch, so this is a required upgrade.
\nWe also improved a great deal under the hood that hopefully you’ll never notice, but if you’re a developer for the WP platform it provides a lot to sink your teeth into. Here is a sampling:
\nIf you’d like an in-depth look at everything that changed, here is a list of all 244 closed tickets in our bug tracker and you can use this link to see what files and lines of code changed. (It was a lot!)
\nMost interesting about this release is that is our first under the new, experimental development cycle that we first talked about when we released version 2.1 fewer than 4 months ago. We delayed a few weeks from our target date in April, but ended up under our original goal of a 4 month major release cycle. My thanks and congratulations to the entire WordPress community for pulling together and making that happen. It wasn’t without its bumps, but the things we learned along the way will make our next release in September even better. You can now look forward to a fast but stable schedule of new features and goodies several times a year from WordPress.
\nThere were 1.4 million downloads of WordPress 2.1 in the four months it was available.
\nI wrote a post that covers some of the media that WP has been getting lately and its history.
\nWe’ve expanded WordPress.org quite a bit, most notably the very active plugins directory and the ideas forum.
\nCome meet other WordPress users and developers at WordCamp, which is going to be taking place July 21-22 in San Francisco.
\nDon’t forget to check out WordPress’ cousins MU and bbPress, both of which have been seeing some pretty cool development lately.
\nThe most valuable thing you can give back to WordPress is your time — the time to help a friend discover the joy of blogging, the time to help a stranger (a friend you haven’t met yet) on the support forums, or the time to help make WordPress a better product.
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\nIn addition there were also dozens of UI and accessibility improvements, ranging from more concise wording around options and links to things like a view and preview link above the content box when you’re editing a post or page, as well as several important security fixes. We don’t plan to continue to support the 2.1 branch, so this is a required upgrade.
\nWe also improved a great deal under the hood that hopefully you’ll never notice, but if you’re a developer for the WP platform it provides a lot to sink your teeth into. Here is a sampling:
\nIf you’d like an in-depth look at everything that changed, here is a list of all 244 closed tickets in our bug tracker and you can use this link to see what files and lines of code changed. (It was a lot!)
\nMost interesting about this release is that is our first under the new, experimental development cycle that we first talked about when we released version 2.1 fewer than 4 months ago. We delayed a few weeks from our target date in April, but ended up under our original goal of a 4 month major release cycle. My thanks and congratulations to the entire WordPress community for pulling together and making that happen. It wasn’t without its bumps, but the things we learned along the way will make our next release in September even better. You can now look forward to a fast but stable schedule of new features and goodies several times a year from WordPress.
\nThere were 1.4 million downloads of WordPress 2.1 in the four months it was available.
\nI wrote a post that covers some of the media that WP has been getting lately and its history.
\nWe’ve expanded WordPress.org quite a bit, most notably the very active plugins directory and the ideas forum.
\nCome meet other WordPress users and developers at WordCamp, which is going to be taking place July 21-22 in San Francisco.
\nDon’t forget to check out WordPress’ cousins MU and bbPress, both of which have been seeing some pretty cool development lately.
\nThe most valuable thing you can give back to WordPress is your time — the time to help a friend discover the joy of blogging, the time to help a stranger (a friend you haven’t met yet) on the support forums, or the time to help make WordPress a better product.
\n\";}i:9;a:12:{s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10\";s:4:\"link\";s:64:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:73:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:50:45 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:8:\"category\";s:16:\"ReleasesSecurity\";s:4:\"guid\";s:64:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/\";s:11:\"description\";s:345:\"We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.\nThese releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1138:\"We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
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\nAs an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.
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\nAskApache Firefox Adsense displays a Firefox Adsense Ad (Google Referrals) on your blog, but only to users that are not using Firefox, and only to users running Windows.
\nKiteCV lets you compose a complete master CV, then publish views of it targeted at specific employers or jobs.
\nSecure Contact is a drop-in form for users to contact you that can be implemented on a page or a post.
\nSmilies Themer allows you to use smilies (emoticons) themes (or packs) to replace the WordPress default ones.
\nStrainu Links lets you put all your links in any page, post, or comment.
\nTemplateMedia creates a Wikipedia-style templating system for your WordPress installation. TemplateMedia Chess adds in a template that is a port of Wikipedia’s Chess Diagram template.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:00:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1368:\"wpAdMentor lets you choose which ads to display on your WordPress blog.
\nAskApache Firefox Adsense displays a Firefox Adsense Ad (Google Referrals) on your blog, but only to users that are not using Firefox, and only to users running Windows.
\nKiteCV lets you compose a complete master CV, then publish views of it targeted at specific employers or jobs.
\nSecure Contact is a drop-in form for users to contact you that can be implemented on a page or a post.
\nSmilies Themer allows you to use smilies (emoticons) themes (or packs) to replace the WordPress default ones.
\nStrainu Links lets you put all your links in any page, post, or comment.
\nTemplateMedia creates a Wikipedia-style templating system for your WordPress installation. TemplateMedia Chess adds in a template that is a port of Wikipedia’s Chess Diagram template.
\";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 9/7\";s:4:\"guid\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/09/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-97/\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/09/07/wordpress-theme-releases-for-97/\";s:11:\"description\";s:975:\"Brushed Blues is a single-column, widget-ready theme with sidebar content located in the footer area.
\nCubez is a 2-column, widget- and adsense-ready theme with a Main Translator feature in the sidebar.
\nFreaky Green is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a 3-column header and footer and bright green colors.
\nGlorious Future and Glorious Day are 2- and 3-column, widget-ready themes, respectively, that come with page templates for archives, links, contact, 404, and author’s profile and that also highlight author’s comments.
\nRockinBizRed is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a professional look and wide content area.
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\nCubez is a 2-column, widget- and adsense-ready theme with a Main Translator feature in the sidebar.
\nFreaky Green is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a 3-column header and footer and bright green colors.
\nGlorious Future and Glorious Day are 2- and 3-column, widget-ready themes, respectively, that come with page templates for archives, links, contact, 404, and author’s profile and that also highlight author’s comments.
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\";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:17:\"Akismet: Downtime\";s:4:\"guid\";s:46:\"http://blog.akismet.com/2007/09/06/downtime-2/\";s:4:\"link\";s:46:\"http://blog.akismet.com/2007/09/06/downtime-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:415:\"We had a 40 minute downtime in our San Antonio location last night. This probably caused some obvious spam on your blog to be missed by Akismet.
\nWe’re obviously looking on the systems side at what happened and how to prevent it, but also on the client side we’d like to make the WP plugin deal more gracefully with not being able to contact the mothership.
\nWe had a 40 minute downtime in our San Antonio location last night. This probably caused some obvious spam on your blog to be missed by Akismet.
\nWe’re obviously looking on the systems side at what happened and how to prevent it, but also on the client side we’d like to make the WP plugin deal more gracefully with not being able to contact the mothership.
\nWordPress 2.3 changes the database schema in three places. The biggest change is the taxonomy related changes I discussed earlier. Since taxonomy was going to cause backward compatibility breaks in the schema, we decided we might as well break it thoroughly and create something we liked. Thus the categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables were dropped and replaced by three new tables. Plugins that reference the old tables will break. They will need to be updated to either use API, preferably, or use SQL that references the new tables instead of the old ones.
\nThe other two changes are small and low-impact. A new status of ‘pending’ was added to the post_status field of the posts table. This won’t affect most plugins. Plugins that check post status might be affected. Those plugins can do some defensive programming to insulate themselves against new status additions.
\nFinally, several unused fields were dropped from the options table. option_can_override, option_type, option_width, option_height, option_description, and option_admin_level are now gone. These fields have been unused for years. The time had come to finally drop them and clean up the options table.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:49:32 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1430:\"WordPress 2.3 changes the database schema in three places. The biggest change is the taxonomy related changes I discussed earlier. Since taxonomy was going to cause backward compatibility breaks in the schema, we decided we might as well break it thoroughly and create something we liked. Thus the categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables were dropped and replaced by three new tables. Plugins that reference the old tables will break. They will need to be updated to either use API, preferably, or use SQL that references the new tables instead of the old ones.
\nThe other two changes are small and low-impact. A new status of ‘pending’ was added to the post_status field of the posts table. This won’t affect most plugins. Plugins that check post status might be affected. Those plugins can do some defensive programming to insulate themselves against new status additions.
\nFinally, several unused fields were dropped from the options table. option_can_override, option_type, option_width, option_height, option_description, and option_admin_level are now gone. These fields have been unused for years. The time had come to finally drop them and clean up the options table.
\";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:35:\"Ryan Boren: Post Status Transitions\";s:4:\"guid\";s:60:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/09/05/post-status-transitions/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/09/05/post-status-transitions/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1562:\"WordPress 2.3 introduces some new actions that plugins can use to hook into status transitions and workflow. Before, WP had a ‘private_to_published’ action that announced that a post moved from private to published, and that’s about it. Now WP has actions for every possible transition. These actions are of the form ’status_to_status’ where status is one of:
\nWhen a ‘pending’ post is published, the action ‘pending_to_publish’ is triggered. The action is accompanied by the post object that is changing status.
\nA generic ‘transition_post_status’ action is also emitted for every status change. It is accompanied by the new status, the old status, and the post object. Plugins can use this action to attach a function that intercepts all status changes.
\nThe final action triggered during a status change is of the form ’status_object’, where status is from the status list above and object is either ‘page’ or ‘post’. For example, when a post is published, a ‘publish_post’ action is triggered. The action is accompanied by the post ID and post object.
\nSee the function wp_transition_post_status() for how these actions are formed. Use add_action() to attach functions to these actions.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:32:51 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1562:\"WordPress 2.3 introduces some new actions that plugins can use to hook into status transitions and workflow. Before, WP had a ‘private_to_published’ action that announced that a post moved from private to published, and that’s about it. Now WP has actions for every possible transition. These actions are of the form ’status_to_status’ where status is one of:
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\nA generic ‘transition_post_status’ action is also emitted for every status change. It is accompanied by the new status, the old status, and the post object. Plugins can use this action to attach a function that intercepts all status changes.
\nThe final action triggered during a status change is of the form ’status_object’, where status is from the status list above and object is either ‘page’ or ‘post’. For example, when a post is published, a ‘publish_post’ action is triggered. The action is accompanied by the post ID and post object.
\nSee the function wp_transition_post_status() for how these actions are formed. Use add_action() to attach functions to these actions.
\";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"Donncha: Is your eAccelerator cache dir still there?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:72:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/09/05/is-your-eaccelerator-cache-dir-still-there/\";s:4:\"link\";s:72:\"http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/09/05/is-your-eaccelerator-cache-dir-still-there/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1425:\"While looking through this WordPress performance post I realised that eAccelerator might not be running properly on this blog. For some time I’ve noticed this site hasn’t been as quick off the mark as it used to be. Dare I say it, but it was even a little sluggish!
\nIf you’re not familiar with it, eAccelerator is a PHP accelerator. It caches PHP bytecode and performs optimizations to make your PHP site run a lot faster.
\nI verified that eAccelerator was loaded and then checked my php.ini configuration. Sure enough, the eaccelerator.cache_dir directive was set to “/tmp/eacc/” and that directory was deleted the last time my server rebooted.
A permanent fix is to change the location of the cache dir. Put it anywhere the webserver can read, but don’t put it in /tmp/.
\nWhile you’re looking at eAccelerator, upgrade to the latest version, especially if you’re running PHP5.
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\nIf you’re not familiar with it, eAccelerator is a PHP accelerator. It caches PHP bytecode and performs optimizations to make your PHP site run a lot faster.
\nI verified that eAccelerator was loaded and then checked my php.ini configuration. Sure enough, the eaccelerator.cache_dir directive was set to “/tmp/eacc/” and that directory was deleted the last time my server rebooted.
A permanent fix is to change the location of the cache dir. Put it anywhere the webserver can read, but don’t put it in /tmp/.
\nWhile you’re looking at eAccelerator, upgrade to the latest version, especially if you’re running PHP5.
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:33:09 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:168:\"I’ve been using IE7 quite a bit lately. It’s a darn-good browser and seems very fast, especially when I have a lot of tabs open, compared to Firefox.
\";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 9/5\";s:4:\"guid\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/09/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-95/\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/09/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-95/\";s:11:\"description\";s:835:\"Blog Oh Blog v2.0 is a 3-column, widget-ready, minimalistic theme with support for a sitemap and sIFR.
\nKubrick 3-C is a the popular Kubrick theme in a 3-column, widget-ready layout.
\nMaggiociondolo is a 3-column, minimalist theme built on Sandbox.
\nRestaurant is a 2-column, simple theme that comes in two varieties - AJAX and no AJAX.
\nSynergy is a 2-column, dark-grey theme with blue header and highlights.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:00:22 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:835:\"Blog Oh Blog v2.0 is a 3-column, widget-ready, minimalistic theme with support for a sitemap and sIFR.
\nKubrick 3-C is a the popular Kubrick theme in a 3-column, widget-ready layout.
\nMaggiociondolo is a 3-column, minimalist theme built on Sandbox.
\nRestaurant is a 2-column, simple theme that comes in two varieties - AJAX and no AJAX.
\nSynergy is a 2-column, dark-grey theme with blue header and highlights.
\";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 9/5\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/09/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-95/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/09/05/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-95/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2120:\"Amazon Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon’s catalogue to your wordpress blog.
\nBackupWordPress is a Backup & Recovery Suite for your WordPress website.
\nDelink Comment Author adds a link that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment to the bottom of your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page.
\nImpress allows your to display/share your blog statistics with your readers.
\nKontera Integration lets you enable or disable Kontera ads on a post-by-post basis.
\nMini-Slides lets you create individually styled mini-slides in your posts and lets you set the default template to be used site-wide.
\nSearch Unleashed extends the standard WordPress search and provides a full text search with wildcards, logical operations, and highlighting across posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, and meta-data.
\nShashin lets you display Picasa images anywhere in your WordPress site.
\nSign-out Reminder displays a reminder to users to remember to sign out whenever they log in to the admin area.
\nWP-Syslog is a system logging facility for WordPress that ogs core events like user logins, posts and comments publishing, plugin (de-)activation.
\nTextiler lets you place Textile markup in your blog entries in very specific blocks.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:00:22 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2120:\"Amazon Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon’s catalogue to your wordpress blog.
\nBackupWordPress is a Backup & Recovery Suite for your WordPress website.
\nDelink Comment Author adds a link that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment to the bottom of your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page.
\nImpress allows your to display/share your blog statistics with your readers.
\nKontera Integration lets you enable or disable Kontera ads on a post-by-post basis.
\nMini-Slides lets you create individually styled mini-slides in your posts and lets you set the default template to be used site-wide.
\nSearch Unleashed extends the standard WordPress search and provides a full text search with wildcards, logical operations, and highlighting across posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, and meta-data.
\nShashin lets you display Picasa images anywhere in your WordPress site.
\nSign-out Reminder displays a reminder to users to remember to sign out whenever they log in to the admin area.
\nWP-Syslog is a system logging facility for WordPress that ogs core events like user logins, posts and comments publishing, plugin (de-)activation.
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\";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Ryan Boren: WordPress 2.3 Beta 2\";s:4:\"guid\";s:56:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/09/04/wordpress-23-beta-2/\";s:4:\"link\";s:56:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/09/04/wordpress-23-beta-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:995:\"2.3 Beta 2 is now available. We’ve been very active since beta 1. Over 70 commits went into the repository in the past week with many bugs being fixed. New and improved AtomPub was introduced as were tag importers for Jerome’s Keywords and Simple Tagging Plugin.
\nThanks to those who joined us for last week’s bug hunt. We’re having another on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 17:00:00 UTC time in the #wordpress-bugs channel.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:51:00 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:995:\"2.3 Beta 2 is now available. We’ve been very active since beta 1. Over 70 commits went into the repository in the past week with many bugs being fixed. New and improved AtomPub was introduced as were tag importers for Jerome’s Keywords and Simple Tagging Plugin.
\nThanks to those who joined us for last week’s bug hunt. We’re having another on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 17:00:00 UTC time in the #wordpress-bugs channel.
\";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.3 Beta 2\";s:4:\"guid\";s:61:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23-beta-2/\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23-beta-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:710:\"WordPress 2.3 will be here before you know it! We’re putting out a beta release every Monday until WordPress 2.3 ships on September 24th. Today the second beta drops for your testing pleasure. We’ve fixed a bunch of bugs in the last week — thanks to everyone who participated! That said, this is still rough code, so you should only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your blog’s data.
\nStill want to play? Go ahead and join the wp-testers mailing list and download beta 2 here.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:03:58 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Mark Jaquith\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:710:\"WordPress 2.3 will be here before you know it! We’re putting out a beta release every Monday until WordPress 2.3 ships on September 24th. Today the second beta drops for your testing pleasure. We’ve fixed a bunch of bugs in the last week — thanks to everyone who participated! That said, this is still rough code, so you should only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your blog’s data.
\nStill want to play? Go ahead and join the wp-testers mailing list and download beta 2 here.
\";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"Alex King: Delink Comment Author 1.0\";s:4:\"guid\";s:60:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/09/03/delink-comment-author-10\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/09/03/delink-comment-author-10\";s:11:\"description\";s:1309:\"Here’s a little one-trick pony WordPress plugin. Delink Comment Author adds a link that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment to the bottom of your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page.
\nMy comment policy is to allow only personal web site URLs from commenters. From time to time someone will leave a pretty legit comment, but with a pretty non-personal URL. With this plugin I can just remove the URL instead of deleting the entire comment. Not sure how useful this will be to others, but it’s I’ve put it out there if you want to use it.
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
\nIf you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:18:00 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1309:\"Here’s a little one-trick pony WordPress plugin. Delink Comment Author adds a link that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment to the bottom of your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page.
\nMy comment policy is to allow only personal web site URLs from commenters. From time to time someone will leave a pretty legit comment, but with a pretty non-personal URL. With this plugin I can just remove the URL instead of deleting the entire comment. Not sure how useful this will be to others, but it’s I’ve put it out there if you want to use it.
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
\nIf you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
\n\";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:18:\"Matt: On Labor Day\";s:4:\"guid\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/09/03/on-labor-day/\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/09/03/on-labor-day/\";s:11:\"description\";s:108:\"\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:58:32 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:108:\"\";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Alex King: Twitter Tools “Brokenâ€\";s:4:\"guid\";s:56:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/09/01/twitter-tools-broken\";s:4:\"link\";s:56:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/09/01/twitter-tools-broken\";s:11:\"description\";s:822:\"All–
\nI’m very sorry that Twitter Tools is not currently working. The breakage appears to be due to an issue on the Twitter side.
\nThank you kindly for your patience while things get straightened out.
\nYour friend,
\n–Alex King
PS. Thank you to those of you went to the forums as requested, I’m sure you already found this information posted there.\n
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:09:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:822:\"All–
\nI’m very sorry that Twitter Tools is not currently working. The breakage appears to be due to an issue on the Twitter side.
\nThank you kindly for your patience while things get straightened out.
\nYour friend,
\n–Alex King
PS. Thank you to those of you went to the forums as requested, I’m sure you already found this information posted there.\n
\";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:63:\"Lorelle on WP: Celebrating Two Years: A Month of WordPress Tips\";s:4:\"guid\";s:88:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/celebrating-two-years-a-month-of-wordpress-tips/\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/celebrating-two-years-a-month-of-wordpress-tips/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2831:\"![\"WordPress.com](\"http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/anniversary2year.gif\")
As part of my two month-long party celebrating the two year anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog with guest bloggers, we’re just finishing up month one of non-stop blogging about blogging, and tomorrow begins a whole month of non-stop WordPress tips.
To help get you in the mood, here are some of the tips for WordPress and WordPress.com I’ve covered in the past.
\nThe most important help I can give to WordPress users is knowing where to go for help. The resources for finding help for WordPress issues are:
\nSome articles I’ve written in the past on how to find and get help with WordPress include:
\n (more…)
As part of my two month-long party celebrating the two year anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog with guest bloggers, we’re just finishing up month one of non-stop blogging about blogging, and tomorrow begins a whole month of non-stop WordPress tips.
To help get you in the mood, here are some of the tips for WordPress and WordPress.com I’ve covered in the past.
\nThe most important help I can give to WordPress users is knowing where to go for help. The resources for finding help for WordPress issues are:
\nSome articles I’ve written in the past on how to find and get help with WordPress include:
\n (more…)
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\nakismet, Automattic, blog comment poster, comment spam, irishblogs, WordPress\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:04:30 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:7:\"Donncha\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:849:\"\nThis comment was posted automatically using Blog Comment Poster. Check out its site to learn more and start building backlinks to your websites today.
This post was written manually using Donncha’s fingers. Check out the Akismet anti comment-spam plugin to stop the idiot spammer at 75.126.132.23 using “Blog Comment Poster”.
\nakismet, Automattic, blog comment poster, comment spam, irishblogs, WordPress\";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:31:\"Alex King: Friendly Search URLs\";s:4:\"guid\";s:56:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/08/30/friendly-search-urls\";s:4:\"link\";s:56:\"http://alexking.org/blog/2007/08/30/friendly-search-urls\";s:11:\"description\";s:1867:\"I\'ve recently gotten several e-mails asking how I created my friendly search URLs here on alexking.org (also used on the Crowd Favorite web site, etc.); I figured others might be interested in this as well.
\nIt\'s really rather simple, there are just a couple of places to make changes. Note: you must be using nice permalinks with an Apache web server for this to work as described below.
\nAdd this mod_rewrite rule in your .htaccess file:
\nRewriteRule ^search/(.+)?$ /index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]UPDATE: Mark informs me that this has actually been built in to WP since 1.5 (meaning this step is not necessary) - who knew? Not me apparently.
Add an onsubmit handler to the form tag in the search form in your theme:
<form action=\"<?php bloginfo(\'wpurl\'); ?>/index.php\" method=\"get\" onsubmit=\"location.href=\'<?php bloginfo(\'home\'); ?>/search/\' + encodeURIComponent(this.s.value).replace(/%20/g, \'+\'); return false;\">Then... you\'re done. Kinda anti-climactic, but it\'s a pretty simple little change.
\nOne thing I\'ve found handy about this is the ability to simply type:
\nhttp://alexking.org/search/your+search+termsto search my site.
\nThere\'s more than one way to skin a cat, suggestions and improvements to this are welcome in the comments.\n
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:40:37 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1867:\"I\'ve recently gotten several e-mails asking how I created my friendly search URLs here on alexking.org (also used on the Crowd Favorite web site, etc.); I figured others might be interested in this as well.
\nIt\'s really rather simple, there are just a couple of places to make changes. Note: you must be using nice permalinks with an Apache web server for this to work as described below.
\nAdd this mod_rewrite rule in your .htaccess file:
\nRewriteRule ^search/(.+)?$ /index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]UPDATE: Mark informs me that this has actually been built in to WP since 1.5 (meaning this step is not necessary) - who knew? Not me apparently.
Add an onsubmit handler to the form tag in the search form in your theme:
<form action=\"<?php bloginfo(\'wpurl\'); ?>/index.php\" method=\"get\" onsubmit=\"location.href=\'<?php bloginfo(\'home\'); ?>/search/\' + encodeURIComponent(this.s.value).replace(/%20/g, \'+\'); return false;\">Then... you\'re done. Kinda anti-climactic, but it\'s a pretty simple little change.
\nOne thing I\'ve found handy about this is the ability to simply type:
\nhttp://alexking.org/search/your+search+termsto search my site.
\nThere\'s more than one way to skin a cat, suggestions and improvements to this are welcome in the comments.\n
\";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:85:\"WordPress Podcast: Episode 28: WordCamp memories, theme hijackers and vulnerabilities\";s:4:\"guid\";s:64:\"http://wp-community.org/2007/08/31/episode-28-wordcamp-memories/\";s:4:\"link\";s:64:\"http://wp-community.org/2007/08/31/episode-28-wordcamp-memories/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4641:\"| 01:55 | \n\n Opinion: WordCamp San Francisco 2007 \nIn this long-overdue (not to mention overly long) episode, Aaron and Charles share their thoughts on attending WordCamp in San Francisco including: \n
| \n
| 29:19 | \n\n Open question: Would anyone come to a WordCamp in Dallas, Texas? \nI’m interested in spearheading efforts to plan a WordCamp in early 2008 in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. If there is one, would you attend? \n | \n
| 29:19 | \n\n Announcement: The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group \nThe next meeting of The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group is scheduled for September 20th. (This wasn’t mentioned in the podcast because we spoke of the first meetup that occurred several weeks ago.) \n | \n
| 30:30 | \n\n News: Templates Browser modifying themes to distribute malware \nTemplates Browser (no, I won’t link to them) is re-distributing public blog themes which are modified in such a way as to exploit the end user by inserting hidden spam or malware links. \n | \n
| 33:18 | \n\n News: Is WordPress vulnerable? \nMark Jaquith answers a charge of 7 security vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.2.x \n | \n
| 37:22 | \n\n Feedback, comments and questions: \n
| \n
| 01:55 | \n\n Opinion: WordCamp San Francisco 2007 \nIn this long-overdue (not to mention overly long) episode, Aaron and Charles share their thoughts on attending WordCamp in San Francisco including: \n
| \n
| 29:19 | \n\n Open question: Would anyone come to a WordCamp in Dallas, Texas? \nI’m interested in spearheading efforts to plan a WordCamp in early 2008 in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. If there is one, would you attend? \n | \n
| 29:19 | \n\n Announcement: The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group \nThe next meeting of The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group is scheduled for September 20th. (This wasn’t mentioned in the podcast because we spoke of the first meetup that occurred several weeks ago.) \n | \n
| 30:30 | \n\n News: Templates Browser modifying themes to distribute malware \nTemplates Browser (no, I won’t link to them) is re-distributing public blog themes which are modified in such a way as to exploit the end user by inserting hidden spam or malware links. \n | \n
| 33:18 | \n\n News: Is WordPress vulnerable? \nMark Jaquith answers a charge of 7 security vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.2.x \n | \n
| 37:22 | \n\n Feedback, comments and questions: \n
| \n
ACSearch adds auto-completion to the WordPress search field.
\nAdd to Any Subscribe Button lets readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader.
\nDuplicate Sidebar Widgets allows a WordPress user to duplicate or copy sidebar widgets and use them on multiple sidebars or use the widgets more than once in the same sidebar.
\nWP Mail SMTP replaces the in-built wp_mail() function with a duplicate function which uses SMTP to localhost instead of PHP mail.
\nthis.player is a a small player written in Flash that allows you to use simple tags to embed FLV, SWF and MP3 files into WordPress posts.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:45:35 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:996:\"ACSearch adds auto-completion to the WordPress search field.
\nAdd to Any Subscribe Button lets readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader.
\nDuplicate Sidebar Widgets allows a WordPress user to duplicate or copy sidebar widgets and use them on multiple sidebars or use the widgets more than once in the same sidebar.
\nWP Mail SMTP replaces the in-built wp_mail() function with a duplicate function which uses SMTP to localhost instead of PHP mail.
\nthis.player is a a small player written in Flash that allows you to use simple tags to embed FLV, SWF and MP3 files into WordPress posts.
\";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 8/31\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/31/wordpress-theme-releases-for-831/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/31/wordpress-theme-releases-for-831/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1402:\"All Season is a suite of 3-column, widget-ready themes designed to allow bloggers to change their themes on a seasonal, monthly basis. There are currently three themes in the suite with nine more planned for future release.
\nIndependence Day is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with Author Page designed in celebratio