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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\";}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 celebration of Indian Independence Day.
\nLuxury is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a dark-yellow color scheme and a patterned background.
\nMubin is a 2-column theme with a black header and a modern look.
\nPumpkin Red is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with red and orange colors.
\nSimple Grey is a 2-column, widget-ready, minimalistic theme with simple, XHTML-valid code.
\nTigopedia Reloaded is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a Web 2.0-style look and a database-free design.
\";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: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 celebration of Indian Independence Day.
\nLuxury is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a dark-yellow color scheme and a patterned background.
\nMubin is a 2-column theme with a black header and a modern look.
\nPumpkin Red is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with red and orange colors.
\nSimple Grey is a 2-column, widget-ready, minimalistic theme with simple, XHTML-valid code.
\nTigopedia Reloaded is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a Web 2.0-style look and a database-free design.
\";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Ryan Boren: AtomPub and WordPress 2.3\";s:4:\"guid\";s:61:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/08/30/atompub-and-wordpress-23/\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/08/30/atompub-and-wordpress-23/\";s:11:\"description\";s:447:\"Sam Ruby talks about the much improved AtomPub support coming in WordPress 2.3. I’m glad this all came together in time for 2.3. Sam gives a shout out to those who made it happen. Thanks guys. I love it when all I have to do is apply a patch to gain a nice, marquee feature.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:41:44 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:447:\"Sam Ruby talks about the much improved AtomPub support coming in WordPress 2.3. I’m glad this all came together in time for 2.3. Sam gives a shout out to those who made it happen. Thanks guys. I love it when all I have to do is apply a patch to gain a nice, marquee feature.
\";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:35:\"Matt: Should poetry be open-source?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:51:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/30/open-source-poetry/\";s:4:\"link\";s:51:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/30/open-source-poetry/\";s:11:\"description\";s:117:\"\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:14:34 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:117:\"\";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:18:\"Matt: SUNW to JAVA\";s:4:\"guid\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/30/sunw-to-java/\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/30/sunw-to-java/\";s:11:\"description\";s:367:\"Now that Sun has changed their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA, here’s ten other companies that should change their tickers. By the way, Om was just named one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:11:13 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:367:\"Now that Sun has changed their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA, here’s ten other companies that should change their tickers. By the way, Om was just named one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans.
\";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WP SEO Tips: One, More, Time!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:79:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/30/wp-seo-tips-one-more-time/\";s:4:\"link\";s:79:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/30/wp-seo-tips-one-more-time/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1979:\"This tip isn’t very specific to Wordpress, but something I realized only a few days ago.
\nIf you have an article that is ranking well in the search engines, let’s say “wordpress skins” or “picasa web tips“, either of those searches may generate a decent amount of traffic for either Weblogtoolscollection.com or Ginside.com.
\nWell, let me back up a second here. I recently installed the Firestats plugin and it’s been amazing. It’s capable of providing me with the recent referrers, so I can see where my traffic is coming from, and also provide a list of my top posts.
\nSo what I did was I took some of those top posts and analyzed them for what keyword they were ranking really well for. I then wrote another article with the similar theme and makeup with keywords to generate some fresh content. I noticed that I was in the top10 for a specific keyword, such as I mentioned above, so I wrote an additional article. Guess what? I now have two top10 ranking listings in the Google index. Users are going to be twice as likely to visit your site now because of the visibility.
\nYou may come to the conclusion that this is an elementary practice, but it’s a practice that works and is great to help inform authors about.
\nPlease note though, don’t just create duplicate content and write the same thing over with the same title, but be creative and some up with a new twist or do a follow-up article about that topic.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:15:22 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:8:\"Jonathan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1979:\"This tip isn’t very specific to Wordpress, but something I realized only a few days ago.
\nIf you have an article that is ranking well in the search engines, let’s say “wordpress skins” or “picasa web tips“, either of those searches may generate a decent amount of traffic for either Weblogtoolscollection.com or Ginside.com.
\nWell, let me back up a second here. I recently installed the Firestats plugin and it’s been amazing. It’s capable of providing me with the recent referrers, so I can see where my traffic is coming from, and also provide a list of my top posts.
\nSo what I did was I took some of those top posts and analyzed them for what keyword they were ranking really well for. I then wrote another article with the similar theme and makeup with keywords to generate some fresh content. I noticed that I was in the top10 for a specific keyword, such as I mentioned above, so I wrote an additional article. Guess what? I now have two top10 ranking listings in the Google index. Users are going to be twice as likely to visit your site now because of the visibility.
\nYou may come to the conclusion that this is an elementary practice, but it’s a practice that works and is great to help inform authors about.
\nPlease note though, don’t just create duplicate content and write the same thing over with the same title, but be creative and some up with a new twist or do a follow-up article about that topic.
\";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 8/30\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/30/wordpress-theme-releases-for-830/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/30/wordpress-theme-releases-for-830/\";s:11:\"description\";s:649:\"2001 is a 3-column, dark theme with a prominently-placed Hal 9000 to keep your readers company.
\niPhone is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that brings your iPhone to your blog.
\nLimau Orange is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a simple layout and concise dimensions.
\nWhitespace is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a minimalistic design.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:45:33 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:649:\"2001 is a 3-column, dark theme with a prominently-placed Hal 9000 to keep your readers company.
\niPhone is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that brings your iPhone to your blog.
\nLimau Orange is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a simple layout and concise dimensions.
\nWhitespace is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a minimalistic design.
\";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/30\";s:4:\"guid\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-830/\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/30/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-830/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1861:\"Advanced Permalinks extends the default permalink functionality and allows you to create different permalink structures for each post on your site.
\nBloglines Blogroll enables you to integrate your favorite feeds in wordpress on the sidebar.
\nDel.icio.us for WordPress displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog.
\nStatusPress posts your Facebook status to your WordPress blog.
\nGX Calendar Date Style allows you to easily display your post time and datestamps in a little calendar graphic.
\nHeadspace manages meta-data and handles a wide range of SEO tasks.
\nWordPress Language Translator has been updated to work with WordPress 2.2.2.
\nLast.fm for WordPress displays your Last.fm recently listened tracks in your WordPress blog.
\nLogin Lockdown restricts the number of times someone can enter the incorrect password while logging into WordPress within a short period.
\nThe Sphere Related Content plugin has been updated to include politics-related widgets to your site.
\nSummarize This will add a button to the sidebar as a widget to summarize the page.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:45:33 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1861:\"Advanced Permalinks extends the default permalink functionality and allows you to create different permalink structures for each post on your site.
\nBloglines Blogroll enables you to integrate your favorite feeds in wordpress on the sidebar.
\nDel.icio.us for WordPress displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog.
\nStatusPress posts your Facebook status to your WordPress blog.
\nGX Calendar Date Style allows you to easily display your post time and datestamps in a little calendar graphic.
\nHeadspace manages meta-data and handles a wide range of SEO tasks.
\nWordPress Language Translator has been updated to work with WordPress 2.2.2.
\nLast.fm for WordPress displays your Last.fm recently listened tracks in your WordPress blog.
\nLogin Lockdown restricts the number of times someone can enter the incorrect password while logging into WordPress within a short period.
\nThe Sphere Related Content plugin has been updated to include politics-related widgets to your site.
\nSummarize This will add a button to the sidebar as a widget to summarize the page.
\";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Matt: Digg Effect Deconstruction\";s:4:\"guid\";s:59:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/29/digg-effect-deconstruction/\";s:4:\"link\";s:59:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/29/digg-effect-deconstruction/\";s:11:\"description\";s:159:\"The Digg Effect: A Deconstruction, with a WordPress blog of course.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:19:03 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:159:\"The Digg Effect: A Deconstruction, with a WordPress blog of course.
\";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: The Art of Stress Free Blogging\";s:4:\"guid\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/29/the-art-of-stress-free-blogging/\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/29/the-art-of-stress-free-blogging/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2404:\"The Art of Stress-free Blogging : This post on Web Worker Daily reminds me of why I should be reading that blog more often. If you have heard of or read the ever-popular productivity book Getting Things Done, by David Allen, you will enjoy this post by Leo Babuata. He goes through the steps to perform and outlines the common gotchas and missteps to avoid.
\nI could go on forever, but I fear I am moving away from the actual context of blogging. What do you do to foster the Art of Stress Free Blogging?
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:15:21 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2404:\"The Art of Stress-free Blogging : This post on Web Worker Daily reminds me of why I should be reading that blog more often. If you have heard of or read the ever-popular productivity book Getting Things Done, by David Allen, you will enjoy this post by Leo Babuata. He goes through the steps to perform and outlines the common gotchas and missteps to avoid.
\nI could go on forever, but I fear I am moving away from the actual context of blogging. What do you do to foster the Art of Stress Free Blogging?
\";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:29:\"Matt: WordPress Malaysia Logo\";s:4:\"guid\";s:56:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/29/wordpress-malaysia-logo/\";s:4:\"link\";s:56:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/29/wordpress-malaysia-logo/\";s:11:\"description\";s:175:\"Malaysia is celebrating 50 years of Merdeka and Avijit made these cool WordPress logos to celebrate.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:16:16 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:175:\"Malaysia is celebrating 50 years of Merdeka and Avijit made these cool WordPress logos to celebrate.
\";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:38:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Carnival Blog\";s:4:\"guid\";s:67:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/29/carnival-blog/\";s:4:\"link\";s:67:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/29/carnival-blog/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1049:\"Carnival Blog: Or I should have said “How to do a corporate blog, the right way”? The Carnival Blog, written by John and Heidi Heald (Carnival Cruise Director) is actually a lot of fun to read. It is very personal, very personable and reeks of the enthusiasm and the “fun times” that can be had aboard a Carnival Cruise Ship . The fun fact about this blog is that not only is it down to earth and chock full of John’s idiosyncrasies which make it a delicious read, it is also doing amazingly well in terms of traffic, readership and participation. The blog has attracted 600,000 visitors since its inception in March and continues to lead the Wordpress.com viewer charts. Now in all fairness, I cannot see Michael Dell write about his trip to the local Sonoma winery in broken English, but the $64,000 trick is to engage your clientèle and prospects into thinking more about your company and what you have to offer and keep them from thinking about the competition.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:00:20 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1049:\"Carnival Blog: Or I should have said “How to do a corporate blog, the right way”? The Carnival Blog, written by John and Heidi Heald (Carnival Cruise Director) is actually a lot of fun to read. It is very personal, very personable and reeks of the enthusiasm and the “fun times” that can be had aboard a Carnival Cruise Ship . The fun fact about this blog is that not only is it down to earth and chock full of John’s idiosyncrasies which make it a delicious read, it is also doing amazingly well in terms of traffic, readership and participation. The blog has attracted 600,000 visitors since its inception in March and continues to lead the Wordpress.com viewer charts. Now in all fairness, I cannot see Michael Dell write about his trip to the local Sonoma winery in broken English, but the $64,000 trick is to engage your clientèle and prospects into thinking more about your company and what you have to offer and keep them from thinking about the competition.
\";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.3 Beta 1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:61:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/08/29/wordpress-23-beta-1\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/08/29/wordpress-23-beta-1\";s:11:\"description\";s:1939:\"\nAs announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. Some of the features of 2.3 include automatic notification for plugin and core code version updates, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.\n
\n\nThe new tag system includes an importer for those using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, and importers for a couple of other popular plugins are in the works. There is also a conversion process available for those who would like to convert their existing categories to tags. Due to the flexibility of the new tag system (taxonomy system is more accurate), I expect we will see an explosion of new tagging plugins.\n
\n\nThere have been reports of compatibility issues with a few plugins due to the changes to the category system (plugins that only used the API functions should be okay, but those that used direct SQL queries may break). Also, some file moves in the admin area have affected a few other plugins. Please report problems on Trac, and document compatible plugins on the Codex.\n
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:17:26 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Dougal\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1939:\"\nAs announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. Some of the features of 2.3 include automatic notification for plugin and core code version updates, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.\n
\n\nThe new tag system includes an importer for those using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, and importers for a couple of other popular plugins are in the works. There is also a conversion process available for those who would like to convert their existing categories to tags. Due to the flexibility of the new tag system (taxonomy system is more accurate), I expect we will see an explosion of new tagging plugins.\n
\n\nThere have been reports of compatibility issues with a few plugins due to the changes to the category system (plugins that only used the API functions should be okay, but those that used direct SQL queries may break). Also, some file moves in the admin area have affected a few other plugins. Please report problems on Trac, and document compatible plugins on the Codex.\n
\n\";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:31:\"Ryan Boren: 2.3 Beta 1 Bug Hunt\";s:4:\"guid\";s:55:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/08/28/23-beta-1-bug-hunt/\";s:4:\"link\";s:55:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/08/28/23-beta-1-bug-hunt/\";s:11:\"description\";s:537:\"The first bug hunt in the WordPress 2.3 beta release cycle is Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 17:00:00 UTC time. Join us on the #wordpress-bugs channel as we find and fix bugs. Hunts usually last 24 hours so that all time zones can join in.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:54:45 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:537:\"The first bug hunt in the WordPress 2.3 beta release cycle is Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 17:00:00 UTC time. Join us on the #wordpress-bugs channel as we find and fix bugs. Hunts usually last 24 hours so that all time zones can join in.
\";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"Weblog Tools Collection: What is up with Technorati?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:80:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/what-is-up-with-technorati/\";s:4:\"link\";s:80:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/what-is-up-with-technorati/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2478:\"WeblogToolsCollection.com has vanished from the Technorati index. I have sent support emails and have received nothing more than the canned responses. This blog shows up fine in my watchlist and it is also displayed correctly under “My Blogs” on the homepage but that is where I lose it. The blog page says that it is not indexed and I have quit trying to fix it.
\nThis is one company I have a hard time figuring out. They seem to yo yo between very useful, fully in control of their fortunes and their company to down in the doldrum dumps with very little direction within the blink of an eye. I imagine the people that work there must also go through similar vacillations in their work lives and it must be very difficult to endure. I have had contact with many of the folks at Technorati over the years and all of them have come across as highly intelligent, enterprising individuals. The recent kerfluffle with Sifry and the lost puppy sympathy that got passed around in the tech blogging community really gave the company a black eye in my book and could and should have been avoided at all costs. It was passed off as Web 2.0 growing pains but Technorati is a good company with solid technology and oodles of data. They should have little trouble in coming in second at the least and they are MIA from my list. The externalities of Silicon Valley, I am sure, do not help their case either.
People often criticize strong, controlling leadership but I believe that those are the qualities along with human chemistry, some luck and a little Karma that often produce the best results in startups irrespective of talent or technology. Though I am not writing Technorati off completely, I wish they would either go away forever or come back and stay a while.
\n[EDIT] Thursday, August 30th: Looks like things are back to normal but for how long? Also the index is not correct yet, things still look odd in places.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:30:27 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2478:\"WeblogToolsCollection.com has vanished from the Technorati index. I have sent support emails and have received nothing more than the canned responses. This blog shows up fine in my watchlist and it is also displayed correctly under “My Blogs” on the homepage but that is where I lose it. The blog page says that it is not indexed and I have quit trying to fix it.
\nThis is one company I have a hard time figuring out. They seem to yo yo between very useful, fully in control of their fortunes and their company to down in the doldrum dumps with very little direction within the blink of an eye. I imagine the people that work there must also go through similar vacillations in their work lives and it must be very difficult to endure. I have had contact with many of the folks at Technorati over the years and all of them have come across as highly intelligent, enterprising individuals. The recent kerfluffle with Sifry and the lost puppy sympathy that got passed around in the tech blogging community really gave the company a black eye in my book and could and should have been avoided at all costs. It was passed off as Web 2.0 growing pains but Technorati is a good company with solid technology and oodles of data. They should have little trouble in coming in second at the least and they are MIA from my list. The externalities of Silicon Valley, I am sure, do not help their case either.
People often criticize strong, controlling leadership but I believe that those are the qualities along with human chemistry, some luck and a little Karma that often produce the best results in startups irrespective of talent or technology. Though I am not writing Technorati off completely, I wish they would either go away forever or come back and stay a while.
\n[EDIT] Thursday, August 30th: Looks like things are back to normal but for how long? Also the index is not correct yet, things still look odd in places.
\";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Matt: Browser Stats\";s:4:\"guid\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/28/browser-stats/\";s:4:\"link\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/28/browser-stats/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1217:\"I’m at An Event Apart in Chicago and Eric Meyer just said that browser statistics were “worse than useless.” More specifically, the only browser share numbers that matter are the one for sites you run, not what the web at large uses. Here’s our browser breakdown from 115 million visits to WordPress.com:
\nJust for fun, the operating system breakdown:
\nI’m at An Event Apart in Chicago and Eric Meyer just said that browser statistics were “worse than useless.” More specifically, the only browser share numbers that matter are the one for sites you run, not what the web at large uses. Here’s our browser breakdown from 115 million visits to WordPress.com:
\nJust for fun, the operating system breakdown:
\nGood news! The links in Vanilla that brought the rats out defending them have now been removed by Mark at Lussomo. I applaud this decision to break the text link contract they were in and to put my money where my mouth is I just donated a thousand dollars from my personal account to the project.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:50:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:553:\"Good news! The links in Vanilla that brought the rats out defending them have now been removed by Mark at Lussomo. I applaud this decision to break the text link contract they were in and to put my money where my mouth is I just donated a thousand dollars from my personal account to the project.
\";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Super Secret WordPress GangSign\";s:4:\"guid\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/super-secret-wordpress-gangsign/\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/super-secret-wordpress-gangsign/\";s:11:\"description\";s:576:\"![\"Small](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/08/pict0015.jpg\")
Urban Giraffe Redirection plugin.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:39:10 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:99:\"Urban Giraffe Redirection plugin.
\";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Ryan Boren: WordPress 2.3 Beta 1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:56:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/08/27/wordpress-23-beta-1/\";s:4:\"link\";s:56:\"http://boren.nu/archives/2007/08/27/wordpress-23-beta-1/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2105:\"As announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available. This is the first of several planned betas. Beta 1 has been pretty solid in my testing, but keep in mind that this is indeed a beta that shouldn’t be used on your production blog. If you try it out, make sure you back up your database and prepare yourself to revert to 2.2 if you have problems.
\nWordPress 2.3 includes built-in tagging support. An Ultimate Tag Warrior importer is bundled with 2.3. Importers for the Simple Tagging Plugin and Jerome’s Keywords are being tested and will most likely be included in the next beta. 2.3 also includes a converter that will selectively convert your categories to tags. The converter has worked well for me, but I received a couple bug reports about it shortly before beta 1 went out. If you try the converter and have any problems, let us know so we can fix it up for beta 2. If you want to use the tagging feature, you will need to change your templates to use the new tagging template functions. There’s not yet much documentation on those, so I’ll discuss them in a future post. If you want to do some digging, you can find the code for the tagging functions here and here. If you already use UTW or one of the other plugins and don’t wish to change, you can keep using them as you have been, although I expect some of them will change to use the built-in tagging as a baseline and add their own stuff over the top. The built-in tagging provides just the basics and leaves the fancy stuff to plugins that can better suit individual tastes.
\nIf you are feeling experimental, try out beta 1 and let us know what you think via comments to this post, the bug tracker, or the testers list.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:10:24 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2105:\"As announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available. This is the first of several planned betas. Beta 1 has been pretty solid in my testing, but keep in mind that this is indeed a beta that shouldn’t be used on your production blog. If you try it out, make sure you back up your database and prepare yourself to revert to 2.2 if you have problems.
\nWordPress 2.3 includes built-in tagging support. An Ultimate Tag Warrior importer is bundled with 2.3. Importers for the Simple Tagging Plugin and Jerome’s Keywords are being tested and will most likely be included in the next beta. 2.3 also includes a converter that will selectively convert your categories to tags. The converter has worked well for me, but I received a couple bug reports about it shortly before beta 1 went out. If you try the converter and have any problems, let us know so we can fix it up for beta 2. If you want to use the tagging feature, you will need to change your templates to use the new tagging template functions. There’s not yet much documentation on those, so I’ll discuss them in a future post. If you want to do some digging, you can find the code for the tagging functions here and here. If you already use UTW or one of the other plugins and don’t wish to change, you can keep using them as you have been, although I expect some of them will change to use the built-in tagging as a baseline and add their own stuff over the top. The built-in tagging provides just the basics and leaves the fancy stuff to plugins that can better suit individual tastes.
\nIf you are feeling experimental, try out beta 1 and let us know what you think via comments to this post, the bug tracker, or the testers list.
\";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/28\";s:4:\"guid\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-828/\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-828/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1541:\"Amazon Links Pro adds relevant and contextual links to Amazon.com products to your site.
\nwpLinkMentor hooks into the XML-RPC interface of Wordpress and adds three functions for remote management of links (blogroll) - wpLinkMentor.getLinks, wpLinkMentor.deleteLink and wpLinkMentor.updateLink.
\nMultiple Social Bookmarking lets you bookmark a site into several (more than 50) social bookmarking services. (English download.)
\nPlugins Viewer makes it possible to post the list of the plugins which you installed on your blog. (English download.)
\nSlimbox is a 7kb visual clone of the popular Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the ultra compact mootools framework.
\nVisitor Counter Widget is a simple access counter implemented as a widget.
\nYouTuber lets you add videos from YouTube and adjust the size of the videos to fit your blog.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:45:22 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1541:\"Amazon Links Pro adds relevant and contextual links to Amazon.com products to your site.
\nwpLinkMentor hooks into the XML-RPC interface of Wordpress and adds three functions for remote management of links (blogroll) - wpLinkMentor.getLinks, wpLinkMentor.deleteLink and wpLinkMentor.updateLink.
\nMultiple Social Bookmarking lets you bookmark a site into several (more than 50) social bookmarking services. (English download.)
\nPlugins Viewer makes it possible to post the list of the plugins which you installed on your blog. (English download.)
\nSlimbox is a 7kb visual clone of the popular Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the ultra compact mootools framework.
\nVisitor Counter Widget is a simple access counter implemented as a widget.
\nYouTuber lets you add videos from YouTube and adjust the size of the videos to fit your blog.
\";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:58:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 8/28\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-828/\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/28/wordpress-theme-releases-for-828/\";s:11:\"description\";s:532:\"Be Right Back is a simple theme that allows you to quickly and easily put your blog into maintenance mode.
\nBlueberry is a 3-column, dark-colored theme themed after its namesake and built on Sandbox.
\nTiffany Blue is a 2-column theme with an upper-class appearance that is also built on Sandbox.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:45:22 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:532:\"Be Right Back is a simple theme that allows you to quickly and easily put your blog into maintenance mode.
\nBlueberry is a 3-column, dark-colored theme themed after its namesake and built on Sandbox.
\nTiffany Blue is a 2-column theme with an upper-class appearance that is also built on Sandbox.
\";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Dev Blog: WordPress 2.3 Beta 1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:51:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/23-beta-1/\";s:4:\"link\";s:51:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/23-beta-1/\";s:11:\"description\";s:808:\"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.
\";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:7:\"summary\";s:808:\"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.
\";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Matt: Grey Followup\";s:4:\"guid\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/27/grey-followup/\";s:4:\"link\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/27/grey-followup/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2772:\"On the bright side, last week’s hatchet job in Techcrunch generated some great blog posts. For whatever reason they don’t show up as links on Techcrunch’s page, but here’s some of the better ones:
\nTo summarize some of my responses:
\nOn the bright side, last week’s hatchet job in Techcrunch generated some great blog posts. For whatever reason they don’t show up as links on Techcrunch’s page, but here’s some of the better ones:
\nTo summarize some of my responses:
\nThe winners of the Wordpress Plugin Competition have been announced.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:11:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:180:\"The winners of the Wordpress Plugin Competition have been announced.
\";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:67:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Localizing a WordPress Plugin Using poEdit\";s:4:\"guid\";s:96:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/27/localizing-a-wordpress-plugin-using-poedit/\";s:4:\"link\";s:96:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/27/localizing-a-wordpress-plugin-using-poedit/\";s:11:\"description\";s:9843:\"Localizing a WordPress plugin enables your plugin to reach widest possible audience. Fortunately, WordPress makes it rather simple for plugin authors (and theme authors) to ensure their work is available in many languages.
\nThis post will go over the steps that are necessary from a plugin author’s end to make it easy for others to translate a plugin. For those then wishing to translate, I will go over a program called poEdit, which will allow you to translate the plugin for your use and for others.
\nThe more languages your plugin is in, the more people that can download and understand it.
\nIf a plugin is popular enough, you’ll have people volunteering to translate in order to adhere to a different part of the world. The hard way would be someone going through your code after each release and translating word for word. However, there is an easier and more portable way to translate: the .po file.
\nWith the .po file, anybody can translate your plugin as long as they are familiar with the original language. And if you make any changes to the plugin’s source, a user doesn’t have to dig through your code to re-translate. The translations are preserved in the .po file and all the user has to do is update the .po file in their language.
\nWordPress makes use of GNU gettext for translations. WordPress has two functions that can be called by plugin authors: _e, and __. Every time you output text to the user, you should use one of the two functions.
\nAccording to the WordPress Codex, the __ function should be used if text is going to be used in a calculation.
\nAfter ensuring the text outputted to the user is ready for localization, you must also setup your plugin for loading in the appropriate .mo file. The .mo file is a compiled .po file, which poEdit automatically generates upon a save.
\nThe code inside your plugin would look something like this:
\n\n\n
\nload_plugin_textdomain(\'your-plugin-domain\', \"/wp-content/plugins/your-plugin-directory/\");\n
One thing to note here is that any generated .mo files will have to have your domain as a prefix to the file. For example, if you plugin’s domain is WPAU, then the .mo file would be named WPAU-de_DE.mo (assuming the translation is in German).\n
There’s already a good step-by-step tutorial on how to use poEdit to translate a plugin or theme, but I’m going to use a real-world plugin to show you the steps.
\nHead over the poEdit project page and download yourself a copy. The install is painless as well.
\nFind your own (or another) plugin to translate. For this example, I’ll be using a plugin I wrote called Ajax Edit Comments.
\nAfter the ‘Settings’ dialog comes up, enter your project’s name. In my case, my project is named WPAjaxEditComments. I also went ahead and gave it a UTF-8 charset.
\n![\"poEdit](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/08/settings_project_name.gif\")
You’ll be presented with a Settings dialog after selecting File -> New catalog…
While still having the ‘Settings’ dialog open, go to the ‘Paths’ tab and click the icon for new item. Assuming that your plugin resides in its own sub-directory and that you will save the .po in this sub-directory, enter “.” (this tells poEdit to scan that directory and all sub-directories for your plugin).
\n![\"poEdit](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/08/poedit_paths.gif\")
Since WordPress uses the _e and __ functions for localization, you need to let poEdit know that is what it should look for. Click on the ‘Keywords’ tab and input both _e and __ as keywords. To enter a keyword, click on the ‘New Item’ icon.
\n![\"poEdit](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/08/keywords_new_item.gif\")
Click the “Okay” button and save the .po within your plugin’s directory. What you name the file right now is not important, but it will matter when it comes to translating.
\nAfter you have saved the .po file, a dialog will show showing all of the matches it has found.
\n![\"poEdit](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/08/poedit_update_summary.gif\")
If you do not plan on translating the plugin, you can go ahead and save the .po file and distribute along with your plugin to enable other translators.
\nOnce all the matches are pulled in, it’s time to translate the plugin. Simply find the text you want to translate, and add in your own language.
\n![\"poEdit](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/08/poedit_translate.gif\")
From this screen, you can translate the plugin
Remember the $domain that was mentioned earlier in this post? What if, for example, I want to generate a Spanish translation file? I’ll want to save a file with the $domain as a prefix, and the locale as a suffix. In this case, my domain is WPAjaxEditComments and my locale is es_ES. I would save my file as: WPAjaxEditComments-es_ES.
\nBy saving the new file, I would automatically be generating a .po file that others can use, and a .mo file that can be read in through WordPress to localize the plugin.
\nNow if users have defined the appropriate WPLANG in their wp-config.php, their plugin’s options and output text should be in their local language.
\n![\"German](\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2007/08/german_translated_plugin.gif\")
A German translation of Ajax Edit Comments (Thank you David May).
Localizing a WordPress plugin is a great way to reach out to a foreign audience. Localizing involves many people, including the plugin author to take the initial steps to ensure that the plugin can indeed be localized. Translators are required too, and their efforts to localize WordPress and WordPress plugins are tremendous.
\nLocalizing a WordPress plugin enables your plugin to reach widest possible audience. Fortunately, WordPress makes it rather simple for plugin authors (and theme authors) to ensure their work is available in many languages.
\nThis post will go over the steps that are necessary from a plugin author’s end to make it easy for others to translate a plugin. For those then wishing to translate, I will go over a program called poEdit, which will allow you to translate the plugin for your use and for others.
\nThe more languages your plugin is in, the more people that can download and understand it.
\nIf a plugin is popular enough, you’ll have people volunteering to translate in order to adhere to a different part of the world. The hard way would be someone going through your code after each release and translating word for word. However, there is an easier and more portable way to translate: the .po file.
\nWith the .po file, anybody can translate your plugin as long as they are familiar with the original language. And if you make any changes to the plugin’s source, a user doesn’t have to dig through your code to re-translate. The translations are preserved in the .po file and all the user has to do is update the .po file in their language.
\nWordPress makes use of GNU gettext for translations. WordPress has two functions that can be called by plugin authors: _e, and __. Every time you output text to the user, you should use one of the two functions.
\nAccording to the WordPress Codex, the __ function should be used if text is going to be used in a calculation.
\nAfter ensuring the text outputted to the user is ready for localization, you must also setup your plugin for loading in the appropriate .mo file. The .mo file is a compiled .po file, which poEdit automatically generates upon a save.
\nThe code inside your plugin would look something like this:
\n\n\n
\nload_plugin_textdomain(\'your-plugin-domain\', \"/wp-content/plugins/your-plugin-directory/\");\n
One thing to note here is that any generated .mo files will have to have your domain as a prefix to the file. For example, if you plugin’s domain is WPAU, then the .mo file would be named WPAU-de_DE.mo (assuming the translation is in German).\n
There’s already a good step-by-step tutorial on how to use poEdit to translate a plugin or theme, but I’m going to use a real-world plugin to show you the steps.
\nHead over the poEdit project page and download yourself a copy. The install is painless as well.
\nFind your own (or another) plugin to translate. For this example, I’ll be using a plugin I wrote called Ajax Edit Comments.
\nAfter the ‘Settings’ dialog comes up, enter your project’s name. In my case, my project is named WPAjaxEditComments. I also went ahead and gave it a UTF-8 charset.
\n
You’ll be presented with a Settings dialog after selecting File -> New catalog…
While still having the ‘Settings’ dialog open, go to the ‘Paths’ tab and click the icon for new item. Assuming that your plugin resides in its own sub-directory and that you will save the .po in this sub-directory, enter “.” (this tells poEdit to scan that directory and all sub-directories for your plugin).
\n
Since WordPress uses the _e and __ functions for localization, you need to let poEdit know that is what it should look for. Click on the ‘Keywords’ tab and input both _e and __ as keywords. To enter a keyword, click on the ‘New Item’ icon.
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Click the “Okay” button and save the .po within your plugin’s directory. What you name the file right now is not important, but it will matter when it comes to translating.
\nAfter you have saved the .po file, a dialog will show showing all of the matches it has found.
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If you do not plan on translating the plugin, you can go ahead and save the .po file and distribute along with your plugin to enable other translators.
\nOnce all the matches are pulled in, it’s time to translate the plugin. Simply find the text you want to translate, and add in your own language.
\n
From this screen, you can translate the plugin
Remember the $domain that was mentioned earlier in this post? What if, for example, I want to generate a Spanish translation file? I’ll want to save a file with the $domain as a prefix, and the locale as a suffix. In this case, my domain is WPAjaxEditComments and my locale is es_ES. I would save my file as: WPAjaxEditComments-es_ES.
\nBy saving the new file, I would automatically be generating a .po file that others can use, and a .mo file that can be read in through WordPress to localize the plugin.
\nNow if users have defined the appropriate WPLANG in their wp-config.php, their plugin’s options and output text should be in their local language.
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A German translation of Ajax Edit Comments (Thank you David May).
Localizing a WordPress plugin is a great way to reach out to a foreign audience. Localizing involves many people, including the plugin author to take the initial steps to ensure that the plugin can indeed be localized. Translators are required too, and their efforts to localize WordPress and WordPress plugins are tremendous.
\nThe upcoming release of WordPress 2.3 introduces a new way of tagging and categorizing posts and links.  It replaces the old way of categories and should provide enough flexibility to replace a whole bunch of plugins. Or, at least, make those plugins much simpler.
\nThis new feature required a few changes in the WordPress database scheme. Gladly, Ryan Boren has posted the description of changes in the database structure.
\nThe upcoming release of WordPress 2.3 introduces a new way of tagging and categorizing posts and links.  It replaces the old way of categories and should provide enough flexibility to replace a whole bunch of plugins. Or, at least, make those plugins much simpler.
\nThis new feature required a few changes in the WordPress database scheme. Gladly, Ryan Boren has posted the description of changes in the database structure.
\nWordPress 2.3 introduces our new taxonomy schema. This new schema replaces the categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables with three new tables that are more flexible. The first table is the terms table. It holds the basic information about a term.
\nterm_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,\n name varchar(55) NOT NULL default \'\',\n slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default \'\',\n term_group bigint(10) NOT NULL default 0,\n PRIMARY KEY (term_id),\n UNIQUE KEY slug (slug)\n
“name” is simply the name of the term. “slug” is the name reduced to a URL friendly form. “term_group” is a means of grouping together similar terms. “term_id” is a unique ID for the term.
\nA term is not a category or tag on its own. It must be given context via the term_taxonomy table.
\nterm_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,\n term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n taxonomy varchar(32) NOT NULL default \'\',\n description longtext NOT NULL,\n parent bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n PRIMARY KEY (term_taxonomy_id),\n UNIQUE KEY term_id_taxonomy (term_id,taxonomy)\n
The term_taxonomy table places a term within a taxonomy. This is what makes a term a category or tag (or both). “term_id” is the ID of a term in the terms table. “taxonomy” designates the taxonomy in which the term resides. The default taxonomies are “category”, “link_category”, and “post_tag”. “term_taxonomy_id” is a unique ID for the term+taxonomy pair. The rest of the fields provide information about the term in the context of the taxonomy. The “parent” field keeps track of hierarchical relationships between terms in the taxonomy. “description” provides a taxonomy specific description of the term. “count” tracks how many objects are associated with the term+taxonomy pair. Given a taxonomy of “category”, “count” tracks how many posts are in the category.
\nThe final table, term_relationships, relates objects such as posts or links to a term_taxonomy_id from the term_taxonomy table.
\nobject_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n PRIMARY KEY (object_id,term_taxonomy_id),\n KEY term_taxonomy_id (term_taxonomy_id)\n
“object_id” is the ID of a post or link. “term_taxonomy_id” is an ID from the term_taxonomy table designating a particular term+taxonomy pair.
\nThe flexibility of the schema and API means plugins can add new taxonomies and object types quite easily. One of the Summer of Code projects does just that. The flexibility also allows us to easily retrieve all objects associated with a given term regardless of taxonomy, retrieve all terms from all taxonomies for a given object, and convert all categories to tags with one query.
\nThe taxonomy schema is hidden behind a fairly comprehensive taxonomy API. The category API remains as a backward compatibility layer on top of the taxonomy API. Plugins that use the category API should not require any changes when upgrading to 2.3. Plugins that perform direct SQL queries on the categories, link2cat, or post2cat tables will break, unfortunately.
\nAnd that’s the new schema. It will break a few plugins in the short term, but in the long term it will allow us to add any new taxonomies that come along without needing to change the schema again.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:27:28 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Ryan\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3742:\"WordPress 2.3 introduces our new taxonomy schema. This new schema replaces the categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables with three new tables that are more flexible. The first table is the terms table. It holds the basic information about a term.
\nterm_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,\n name varchar(55) NOT NULL default \'\',\n slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default \'\',\n term_group bigint(10) NOT NULL default 0,\n PRIMARY KEY (term_id),\n UNIQUE KEY slug (slug)\n
“name” is simply the name of the term. “slug” is the name reduced to a URL friendly form. “term_group” is a means of grouping together similar terms. “term_id” is a unique ID for the term.
\nA term is not a category or tag on its own. It must be given context via the term_taxonomy table.
\nterm_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,\n term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n taxonomy varchar(32) NOT NULL default \'\',\n description longtext NOT NULL,\n parent bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n PRIMARY KEY (term_taxonomy_id),\n UNIQUE KEY term_id_taxonomy (term_id,taxonomy)\n
The term_taxonomy table places a term within a taxonomy. This is what makes a term a category or tag (or both). “term_id” is the ID of a term in the terms table. “taxonomy” designates the taxonomy in which the term resides. The default taxonomies are “category”, “link_category”, and “post_tag”. “term_taxonomy_id” is a unique ID for the term+taxonomy pair. The rest of the fields provide information about the term in the context of the taxonomy. The “parent” field keeps track of hierarchical relationships between terms in the taxonomy. “description” provides a taxonomy specific description of the term. “count” tracks how many objects are associated with the term+taxonomy pair. Given a taxonomy of “category”, “count” tracks how many posts are in the category.
\nThe final table, term_relationships, relates objects such as posts or links to a term_taxonomy_id from the term_taxonomy table.
\nobject_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,\n PRIMARY KEY (object_id,term_taxonomy_id),\n KEY term_taxonomy_id (term_taxonomy_id)\n
“object_id” is the ID of a post or link. “term_taxonomy_id” is an ID from the term_taxonomy table designating a particular term+taxonomy pair.
\nThe flexibility of the schema and API means plugins can add new taxonomies and object types quite easily. One of the Summer of Code projects does just that. The flexibility also allows us to easily retrieve all objects associated with a given term regardless of taxonomy, retrieve all terms from all taxonomies for a given object, and convert all categories to tags with one query.
\nThe taxonomy schema is hidden behind a fairly comprehensive taxonomy API. The category API remains as a backward compatibility layer on top of the taxonomy API. Plugins that use the category API should not require any changes when upgrading to 2.3. Plugins that perform direct SQL queries on the categories, link2cat, or post2cat tables will break, unfortunately.
\nAnd that’s the new schema. It will break a few plugins in the short term, but in the long term it will allow us to add any new taxonomies that come along without needing to change the schema again.
\";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:63:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Winners - Wordpress Plugin Competition\";s:4:\"guid\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/26/winners-wordpress-plugin-competition/\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/26/winners-wordpress-plugin-competition/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2903:\"The following are the results for the WordPress Plugin Competition, in reverse order.
\nThe consolation prize winner is Ozh for Who Sees Ads. WhoSeesAds is a wonderfully useful plugin that lets WordPress users determine whe sees the ads on your blog. Ozh wins hosting from Pajama Mommy and a free 48″ wallhog from Wallhogs.com
\n\nThe third prize winner is Keith Dsouza for WordPress Automatic Upgrade which lets you automatically upgrade WordPress from your admin interface with this Plugin. Keith wins a Baby Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $134.40) from Hostgator, a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 and $200 in cash.
\n\nThe second prize winner is Barry for MyDashboard. MyDashboard lets you customize your WordPress Dashboard with this plugin and lots of cool gadgets. This plugin also makes the Dashboard skinnable. Barry wins a Swamp Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $194.40) from Hostgator, an autographed copy of Lorelle’s new book, Blogging Tips and $300 in cash
\n\nThe Grand Prize Winner of the Wordpress Plugin Competition is Anirudh Sanjeev for his OneClick Plugin. OneClick is a Wordpress Plugin and Firefox Extension combo that allows you to install WordPress plugins and themes from your browser with one click. Anirudh wins a Basic Dedicated Server for 6 months (Valued at $1,059) from Hostgator, $600 in cash and an 8 GB iPod Nano (or cash equivalent) from Imthiaz
\nCongratulations to all the winners! All the entries in the competition were all of very high quality and it was quite difficult to choose the top few. Also, judging from the response of the community and the accolades that went around, the competition was a success for the WordPress community. A heartfelt thank you goes from me to all the participants, the Sponsors of the competition, the users of plugins, those who helped rate them on the Competition blog as well as the judges who put their time and effort into sifting through thousands of lines of code. To facilitate quicker distribution of the prizes, I would appreciate it if the winners would send me a quick email with their Paypal information.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:00:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2903:\"The following are the results for the WordPress Plugin Competition, in reverse order.
\nThe consolation prize winner is Ozh for Who Sees Ads. WhoSeesAds is a wonderfully useful plugin that lets WordPress users determine whe sees the ads on your blog. Ozh wins hosting from Pajama Mommy and a free 48″ wallhog from Wallhogs.com
\n\nThe third prize winner is Keith Dsouza for WordPress Automatic Upgrade which lets you automatically upgrade WordPress from your admin interface with this Plugin. Keith wins a Baby Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $134.40) from Hostgator, a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 and $200 in cash.
\n\nThe second prize winner is Barry for MyDashboard. MyDashboard lets you customize your WordPress Dashboard with this plugin and lots of cool gadgets. This plugin also makes the Dashboard skinnable. Barry wins a Swamp Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $194.40) from Hostgator, an autographed copy of Lorelle’s new book, Blogging Tips and $300 in cash
\n\nThe Grand Prize Winner of the Wordpress Plugin Competition is Anirudh Sanjeev for his OneClick Plugin. OneClick is a Wordpress Plugin and Firefox Extension combo that allows you to install WordPress plugins and themes from your browser with one click. Anirudh wins a Basic Dedicated Server for 6 months (Valued at $1,059) from Hostgator, $600 in cash and an 8 GB iPod Nano (or cash equivalent) from Imthiaz
\nCongratulations to all the winners! All the entries in the competition were all of very high quality and it was quite difficult to choose the top few. Also, judging from the response of the community and the accolades that went around, the competition was a success for the WordPress community. A heartfelt thank you goes from me to all the participants, the Sponsors of the competition, the users of plugins, those who helped rate them on the Competition blog as well as the judges who put their time and effort into sifting through thousands of lines of code. To facilitate quicker distribution of the prizes, I would appreciate it if the winners would send me a quick email with their Paypal information.
\";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"Matt: Head of TSA Interview\";s:4:\"guid\";s:54:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/25/head-of-tsa-interview/\";s:4:\"link\";s:54:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/25/head-of-tsa-interview/\";s:11:\"description\";s:271:\"After my airport security complaint the other day I found this interview of the head of the TSA by Bruce Schnier really, really interesting.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:37:32 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:271:\"After my airport security complaint the other day I found this interview of the head of the TSA by Bruce Schnier really, really interesting.
\";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Matt: Turkey Update\";s:4:\"guid\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/25/turkey-update/\";s:4:\"link\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2007/08/25/turkey-update/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3790:\"The folks responsible for blocking WordPress.com in Turkey have issued a press release, here’s some snippets.
\n\nAs it is known by public, the entry of the publications to Turkey of the blog service named “woldpress.com†that gives the opportunity of opening free site to internet users is interrupted with the judgement. This judgement is applied on 17.8.2007 and thus the entery of worldpress.com service and the publications of all sub-sites which takes service from this service to Turkey is interrupted.
aI wish they had blocked worldpress.com instead. They seem proud that they blocked all the sites instead of just the ones that they consider illegal under Turkish law.
\n\nThe reason of this suspention, is that the limitlessly enable to illegal publications of the mentioned blog service, not taking to notice about the suspention of the applications and ignoring the judgements that are given by the Turkish courts related to the suspention of known sub-sites. The free and uncontrolled opportunities provided by the mentioned service are directed baleful people to this service and in a short time wordpress.com is returned to the voice and publication center of separatist-disastrous ideologies, private hostilities, illegal targets.
As far as I know, we never received any notice from Turkish courts about anything, only barely coherent threats and bully-attempts written much like the above.
\n\nThus before ABOUT 17 TİMES we have appealed to the mentioned site administration for the suspention of the unlawful publications , but the site administration did not take any caution about these publications.(one of our applications is published in their sites) Thereon about our applications RELATED WITH THE SUB SITES THAT ABUSE OUR CLIENT’S PERSONAL RIGHTS the Turkish courts have given numerous judgements for the closing of the illegal sub-sites which are broadcasting under Wordpress. These judgements are delivered to the center of the mentioned firm in USA and to the agency in Turkey, this time the suspention of the illegal publications according to the judgements of the Turkish courts is asked. BUT, IN SPITE OF THE ALL WRITTEN AND ORAL APPLICATIONS, THE MENTIONED FIRM AND ITS AGENCIES ARE NOT AFFILIATE OUR REQUIREMENTS AND THE JUDGEMENTS OF THE TURKISH COURTS AND THEY INSISTED ON APPLYING.
Just to clarify when they said they contacted us 17 times, that means that they would blast the same email to multiple address and when they didn’t get the reply they wanted they sent the same message over and over again.
\nIn addition to some blogs they complained about, their main request was that we block the name of their client being used by any blog hosted by our site, much like you can’t write “democracy” on blogs hosted by MSN Spaces in China. I’m going to skip some bits to the threat at the end:
\n\nThere is a lesson which all blog services and internet service providers should take from this judgement. Blog services, especially the ones that give free service, should be careful about the sites that are illegally active through their firms. These services should not remain insensitive to the complints that they receive and especially to the judgements. It is certain that the services which behave opppositely will meet with the same enforcement that Wordpress met.
So if you don’t disallow certain words being used on your blogs, you’ll be punitively punished through our state-controlled ISP. Today those words are “Adnan Oktar.” Who knows what they’ll be tomorrow.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:42:43 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3790:\"The folks responsible for blocking WordPress.com in Turkey have issued a press release, here’s some snippets.
\n\nAs it is known by public, the entry of the publications to Turkey of the blog service named “woldpress.com†that gives the opportunity of opening free site to internet users is interrupted with the judgement. This judgement is applied on 17.8.2007 and thus the entery of worldpress.com service and the publications of all sub-sites which takes service from this service to Turkey is interrupted.
aI wish they had blocked worldpress.com instead. They seem proud that they blocked all the sites instead of just the ones that they consider illegal under Turkish law.
\n\nThe reason of this suspention, is that the limitlessly enable to illegal publications of the mentioned blog service, not taking to notice about the suspention of the applications and ignoring the judgements that are given by the Turkish courts related to the suspention of known sub-sites. The free and uncontrolled opportunities provided by the mentioned service are directed baleful people to this service and in a short time wordpress.com is returned to the voice and publication center of separatist-disastrous ideologies, private hostilities, illegal targets.
As far as I know, we never received any notice from Turkish courts about anything, only barely coherent threats and bully-attempts written much like the above.
\n\nThus before ABOUT 17 TİMES we have appealed to the mentioned site administration for the suspention of the unlawful publications , but the site administration did not take any caution about these publications.(one of our applications is published in their sites) Thereon about our applications RELATED WITH THE SUB SITES THAT ABUSE OUR CLIENT’S PERSONAL RIGHTS the Turkish courts have given numerous judgements for the closing of the illegal sub-sites which are broadcasting under Wordpress. These judgements are delivered to the center of the mentioned firm in USA and to the agency in Turkey, this time the suspention of the illegal publications according to the judgements of the Turkish courts is asked. BUT, IN SPITE OF THE ALL WRITTEN AND ORAL APPLICATIONS, THE MENTIONED FIRM AND ITS AGENCIES ARE NOT AFFILIATE OUR REQUIREMENTS AND THE JUDGEMENTS OF THE TURKISH COURTS AND THEY INSISTED ON APPLYING.
Just to clarify when they said they contacted us 17 times, that means that they would blast the same email to multiple address and when they didn’t get the reply they wanted they sent the same message over and over again.
\nIn addition to some blogs they complained about, their main request was that we block the name of their client being used by any blog hosted by our site, much like you can’t write “democracy” on blogs hosted by MSN Spaces in China. I’m going to skip some bits to the threat at the end:
\n\nThere is a lesson which all blog services and internet service providers should take from this judgement. Blog services, especially the ones that give free service, should be careful about the sites that are illegally active through their firms. These services should not remain insensitive to the complints that they receive and especially to the judgements. It is certain that the services which behave opppositely will meet with the same enforcement that Wordpress met.
So if you don’t disallow certain words being used on your blogs, you’ll be punitively punished through our state-controlled ISP. Today those words are “Adnan Oktar.” Who knows what they’ll be tomorrow.
\";}i:49;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/25\";s:4:\"guid\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/25/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-825/\";s:4:\"link\";s:87:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/25/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-825/\";s:11:\"description\";s:859:\"AuthImage automatically distinguishes between real comments and spam through random codes in an image associated with each comment.
\nIMDB Movie Information Tag frabs information from IMDB about a movie and adds it to your blog.
\nMove Comments allows comments to be moved from one page or post to another.
\nSlickr Gallery uses AJAX discretely to load lots of Flickr thumbnails on demand and uses lightbox javascript to present the images.
\nTrustmeter for Google shows how your host is indexed in Google and if it trusted or not.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:48:31 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Jim Stitzel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:859:\"AuthImage automatically distinguishes between real comments and spam through random codes in an image associated with each comment.
\nIMDB Movie Information Tag frabs information from IMDB about a movie and adds it to your blog.
\nMove Comments allows comments to be moved from one page or post to another.
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','tld db search',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','tld-db-search','','','2007-01-14 09:47:08','2007-01-14 13:47:08','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=53',0,'post','',0),(54,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','The usawebhost.com zone is currently served by Prexar\'s ns boxen. The zone is full of cruft, e.g., blog.zone points to a gfa property. Minimal A records initially: {whois,www}.{usawebhost.com}.\r\n\r\nModify and transfer per agreement with Pancho, 2/10.\r\n\r\nTransfer Verisign-Registrar uid/pw from USA to wampumpeag.','usawebhost: zonefile transfer',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=54',0,'post','',0),(55,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','The Washington Post has a story on the expiry of the domain name washpost.com. We\'d publish it except the WaPo charges $155/mo for for-profit web sites to republish the article.\r\n\r\nThe nutshell version is (a) registrant gives dead contact info to registrar, (b) registrar sends N notices of pending doom, money owed, etc., (c) registration expires, (d) registry deletes name from .com root, (e) registrant discovers all email of the form {doctor,lawyer,indian.chief}@washpost.com fails. For want of a $35 penny ... WaPo had to scramble and dump its internal mail onto Yahoo and Hotmail accounts for the better part of a day.','usawebhost: wapo and the dns',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=55',0,'post','',0),(56,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','We were slow to get the front-end started. Our back-end (OT&E with VGRS for COM/NET) went live in late December, we nervously watched our backorder partner execute buys, returned to sender a mystery payment (left hand please see accounts receivable), missed refreshing our account at VGRS (accounts payable please see right hand), and forgot that our front-end was ... not only awfully ugly, but dead (left hand please see right hand).\r\n\r\nDavid Zimmerman, an IP attorney in Victoria Australia, considering bringing a complaint under the UDRP for a domain for which we are the registrar-of-record, found us ... slightly dead, on both the whois-should-work side, and the please-answer-phone-or-mail side. David dropped a poke-eye-with-sharp-stick note to ICANN, as he should (as we would ourselves), and the nice Gnomes-of-Marina-del-Rey were kind enough to forward the stick on to the right eye. Unfortunately, our contact info on file at ICANN had a typo too.\r\n\r\nA flip of an A record and our whois:43 problem was solved. A flip of another A record and our awfully ugly and dead front-end became ... at least alive, and with correct contact info. Our CEO (Steve Gilbert) is tasked with flipping a letterheaded, signed, pieced of paper transported by surface post and handled by actual human beings to correct our ICANN contact info.\r\n\r\nPeter Bullock, writing in the Hong Kong edition of Computer World, has a readable piece on the background of the UDRP and how to bring a complaint under the UDRP using the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC), which we find interesting because we visited the Network Information Center in Beijing twice in 2000, and may know someone in the Beijing office of the ADNDRC.','usawebhost: slow start',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=56',0,'post','',0),(57,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Tasks:\r\n1. complete W3C modeled splash page (high)\r\n2. incorporate classical registrar functions (check, order, manage)\r\n3. bbc regions for ccTLD pages (low)\r\n4. staff USA Registrar logo task (low)\r\n5. set up all email accounts (medium)\r\n6. betsie (medium, after #1)\r\n7. banner and link to pool (3rd-party)\r\n8. banner and link to wampumpeag (reseller)\r\n9. operated by wampumpeag, llc\r\n10. add nanog search (to icann search)\r\n\r\nNotes:\r\n#4 assigned to Steve, no completion date, use CSP as placeholder.','usawebhost: ui things to do',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=57',0,'post','',0),(58,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Tasks:\r\n1. Get a 3-column style.\r\n\r\nNotes:','usawebost: ',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=58',0,'post','',0),(59,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Tim Ruiz\r\nGodaddy\r\nIANA Registrar id 146\r\n\r\nDear Tim,\r\n\r\nI want to discuss how we registrars can cooperate, independent of Verisign (Registry or Registrar), even ICANN, if necessary, to police one aspect of internet theft. I propose we adopt a trial mechanim to alert the registrar-of-record, as GoDaddy is of casino-jp.com, when the name is used to steer traffic in a theft of service (spam, whether via SMTP or HTTP), or complete credit-card fraud schemes.\r\n\r\nWith this letter I\'m informing you, registrar to registrar, RC member to RC member, that the URL casino-jp.com is being mechanically inserted into the comments of some political blogs I\'m responsible for -- my wife\'s wampum and Lisa English\'s Ruminate This. This form of spam creates countable links in the victim web sites to the spamming beneficiary, which boosts the value of the spamming beneficiary. The general run of blog-abusing spam-bots is the usual casino, sex and drug product set.\r\n\r\nIn general terms, I propose we replace email and telephone calls between registrars with an EPP-like peer-to-peer protocol with and XML payload and end-point-is-a-registrar authentication. We can extend this to 3rd-parties who offer some pooled service, should any want to work that model, and to registries, should any want, or need to peer.\r\n\r\nThe send-side of the SMTP spam mechanism(s) does not rely upon names, neither does the write-side of the HTTP spam mechanism(s), so we can\'t do a damn thing about them. At worst, the writers into the SMTP or HTTP streams use disposable, captured hosts, which are harvested in the hundreds of thousands with every new release of an acquisition virus or worm. Where we can do something is on the use of persistant name to address mappings, where persistence means days or longer, in the furtherance of theft of service and credit card fraud.\r\n\r\nRobo-scamming blogs is a major pain in the butt for the blog community, see Lisa English\'s post from last October. The \"value\" of each unit of spam is the persistence of the validity of the URL the spammer inserts into the comments area of the victum blog. We registrars can cut this off at the knees simply by agreement between ourselves to challenge the spammer-registrant and modifying the domain nameserver data to end the value of the spam-run to the spammer.\r\n\r\nIt comes down to this -- will you switch off a customer because I\'ve asked you to, and will I switch off a customer because you\'ve asked me to. If we can answer \"yes\", then we can build a service that someone can operate, and we can restrict the use of persistant names in the dns for the credit card fraud and theft of advertizing revenue and whatever next comes down the pike, to non-cooperating registrars and spam-friendly registries. Dan Jaye and I wrote an Internet-Draft for the distribution of content labels, and later privacy lables, with digital signatures, on HTTP cookies, with the intent to drive abusive commercial conduct \"outside\" of the US (and EU and OEDC) jurisdictions. The core set of principles in this draft were adopted by the W3C for privacy labels on cookies, and incorporated first by Microsoft into IE 6, and then into Mozilla/Netscape and other internet browsers two years ago.\r\n\r\nI think we can do good, and make some money, and move that invisible line that deliniates \"registry services\" in the correct direction, by cooperating. I\'ll be writing to Ross and the others as well.\r\n\r\nI look forward to seeing you next month in Rome.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEric Brunner-Williams\r\nWampumpeag, LLC\r\nOperator, USA Webhost\r\nIANA Registrar id 449','Making (im)persistent names used in fraud ',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=59',0,'post','',0),(60,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','\r\nShould Registrars Communicate?\r\n\r\nWhen Scott Hollenbeck and the rest of us in the IETF\'s PROVREG WG set about the task of writing a specification for a registrar-registry protocol to replace Verisign\'s propriatary protocol (RRP) we made certain technical design choices that are worth mentioning. We chose a registry-centered star topology. We chose a registry-server and registrar-clients model. We chose a registrar-poll event model. We chose specify a command set that maps close to the RRP command set. In effect, we answered the question posed in the negative. There is no specification of mechanism within the PROVREG work product that allows for a registrar to communicate with a registrar.\r\n\r\nDuring the course of the drafting of the core EPP specifications I suggested alternatives to these design choices. Most were in the form of comments to the working group, some were during our face-to-face meetings, and some I even put in Internet-Draft form. I suggested these choices were over-specifications.\r\n\r\nIf we remove the topological restriction, then any two EPP nodes can exchange data, two registrars, two registries, chains of provisioning actors.\r\n\r\nIf we remove the client server restriction, then any two EPP nodes can elect to peer with each other and exchange or synchronize state. Again, two registrars, two registries, chains of provisioning actors.\r\n\r\nIf we remove the registrar-poll event model, then registries may asynchronously notify registrars, or any other EPP node, in-band, of conditions that affect the client-registrars.\r\n\r\nIf we remove the RRP limitations on the command set, then we can think about provisioning the dns, post-Verisign.\r\n\r\nTo restate, we can peer between two or more nodes by means that do not require, nor prevent, participation by the a central node, and registrars could talk to registrars. We can peer between two or more nodes, allowing one, or both nodes to alternate the roles of server and client, and registrars could also be registries to other registrars, which is more common than once thought. We can push data from registries and solve the escrow and transfer notification and general asychronous alert problems at once.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Austrian ccTLD registry went on to implement HTTP transport, the Swiss ccTLD registry SMTP transport with an EPP-like data exchange syntax.','usawebhost: Comments to ICANN',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=60',0,'post','',0),(61,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','>>ERIC BRUNNER-WILLIAMS: THANK YOU, VINT. A COMMENT FOR MIRIAM. I\'M ERIC BRUNNER-WILLIAMS. AS YOU KNOW, I\'VE WORKED ON THE DOT BIZ PROPOSAL, THE DOT US PROPOSAL AND I ASSISTED WITH THE DOT COOP AND DOT MUSEUM ACTIVITIES. ONE THING I URGE YOU TO LOOK FOR IS THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE EXQUISITE TORTURE, THE FORMALISM THAT PROPOSAL RESPONDENTS GO THROUGH IN ORDER TO RESPOND AS IF THEY WERE VERY WELL CAPITALIZED ORGANIZATIONS WHEN IN FACT THEY ARE NOT VERY WELL CAPITALIZED ORGANIZATIONS.\r\n\r\nRESPONDING TO THE PROPOSALS THEMSELVES, MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE FIRST ROUND OF STLDS AND GTLDS WAS THAT THE CAPITALIZATION WAS, IF YOU WILL, THE SERVICE LEVEL TO WHICH THE AGREEMENTS WERE MADE WERE DISPROPORTIONATE FOR SOME OF THE STLD PROPOSEMENTS. AND THE ENTIRE PROCESS IMPOSED UNNECESSARY COST, WHICH HAS DAMAGED THE FIRST ROUND OF STLD ROLLOUTS, AND POSSIBLY EVEN ONE OR TWO OF THE GTLD ROLLOUTS, ALTHOUGH THEY MAY SUFFER FROM SELF-INFLICTED INJURY. SO PLEASE TRY TO GO BEYOND THE FORMAL COMPARISON OF THE SEVEN SETS OF DOCUMENTS TO INFER THE CAPITALIZATION REQUIREMENTS THAT MEETING THE SLA BOGIES AND APPENDICES AND ALSO RESPOND TO GO THE COMPLETE TEXTUAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE RFP IMPOSED ON THAT GENERATION OF APPLICANTS AND PRESUMABLY WILL BE INFLICTED ON THE NEXT GENERATION OF APPLICANTS AS WELL.\r\n\r\n>>MIRIAM SAPIRO: I THINK THAT\'S AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION AND WE WILL TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT AS WE DO THE PROCESS PART. THAT\'S REALLY SOLUCOM\'S PART, AS WELL AS LOOKING AT THE NEGOTIATIONS, I SHOULD SAY.\r\n\r\nTrans: Solucom knows enough about this thanks.','usawebhost: Attempting to contribute to the process :: a veteran\'s view of the RFP dance ',0,'','draft','closed','closed','','','','','0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://029.colo.coop/?p=61',0,'post','',0),(62,2,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','>>CARLOS AFONSO: CARLOS AFONSO. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK A CLARIFICATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ISSUE. THERE ARE SEVERAL CCTLDS, LIKE DOT N U, DOT PW, DOT PV, ET CETERA, WISHING TO PRACTICE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES AND THEIR AGREEMENTS WITH COMPANIES TO SELL THEIR DOMAIN AND BECOMING PRACTICE GTLDS. HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOT IN THE REALM OF THE GTLD DISCUSSION. WHAT IS THE SITUATION OF THESE DOMAINS THAT ARE REALLY NOT COUNTRY CODE TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS BUT ARE GENERIC DOMAINS, WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS? I FEEL THERE IS A BLACK HOLE IN DOMAINS THAT ARE FORMALLY COUNTRY CODE BUT THEY\'RE NOT COUNTRY CODE. AND YOU DON\'T HAVE ANY REAL REVELATION ABOUT IT. THANK YOU.\r\n\r\n>>PAUL TWOMEY: IF I MAY RESPOND, AND I CAN APPRECIATE YOUR REACTION, I THINK IT COMES TO THE REAL DISTINCTION THAT MANY OF THE CCS WOULD FEEL ABOUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ICANN\'S ROLE WHEN IT COMES TO TECHNICAL POLICY RELATING TO GENERIC TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS AND WHERE ASSOCIATED POLICIES GET MADE AT THE COUNTRY OR THE HOME JURISDICTION RELATE TO GO A CCTLD.\r\n\r\nIF A GOVERNMENT OR ADMINISTRATION MAKES A DECISION THAT IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IS COMFORTABLE WITH THAT PROCESS, THERE\'S BEEN RECENT EXAMPLES, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH DOT LA, ICANN, I DON\'T THINK, IS EMPOWERED TO INTERVENE IN THAT DOMESTIC -- IN THE DOMESTIC DECISION-MAKING PROCESS RELATE TO GO THE CC IN ITS HOME GOVERNMENT. AND I THINK THAT IS ONE OF THE CLEAR DISTINCTIONS THAT I THINK NEARLY EVERY CC HAS MADE IN THE PROCESS IN THE LONG DISCUSSION TAKING PLACE WITH THE CCNSO AND THE FORMATION OF THE CCNSO. SO WHILE I APPRECIATE YOUR OBSERVATION, I THINK IT COMES TO THE POINT OF DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE SEATS OF POWER FOR DECISION-MAKING BETWEEN GTLDS AND CCTLDS.\r\n\r\nERIC BRUNNER-WILLIAMS: IF I MAY, I\'D LIKE TO RESPOND. AGAIN, ERIC BRUNNER-WILLIAMS. I AGREE WITH THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER ABOUT THE REPURPOSED CCTLDS. THE RESPONSE FROM THE CHAIR OR FROM THE PRESIDENT, EXCUSE ME, IS THAT THIS REALLY IS AN INTERNAL MATTER OF THE HOST GOVERNMENT, MORE OR LESS.\r\n\r\nIT\'S BEEN OVER A YEAR NOW SINCE DOT IQ DISAPPEARED, AND IT\'S BEEN THAT LONG SINCE I\'VE BROUGHT THIS MATTER TO THE ATTENTION OF THE ICANN BOARD BY IT\'S FORMER GC, LOUIS.\r\n\r\nSO THERE IS NO -- I MEAN, THAT\'S GOT TO BE ANSWERED DIFFERENTLY. YOU CAN\'T POINT TO THE NON-EXISTENCE OF THE CCTLD AND SAY THAT\'S A MATTER OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE CCTLD NATION STATE OR -- MY POINT IS WHERE IS DOT IQ? WE KNOW WHAT\'S HAPPENED WITH DOT CC AND SO FORTH, SO WHERE IS DOT IQ?\r\n\r\n>>VINT CERF: WELL, FIRST OF ALL, DOT IQ, AS NEAR AS I AM AWARE, ISN\'T FUNCTIONING.\r\nTHE PROBLEM WE HAVE WITH INSTITUTING OPERATIONS FOR DOT IQ, AT LEAST AS I SEE IT, IS THAT WE HAVE A PROCEDURE FOR DELEGATING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OPERATING EACH CCTLD, AND PART OF THAT PROCEDURE INVOLVES A GOVERNMENTAL INTERACTION, AND IT\'S NOT CLEAR WHAT ENTITY SHOULD SERVE AS THAT GOVERNMENTAL PARTY FOR DOT IQ.\r\n\r\nSO FRANKLY, I THINK WE ARE STALLED IN TERMS OF REVIVING THAT UNTIL THERE IS A GOVERNMENT THAT CAN PARTICIPATE TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER PARTIES THAT WE NORMALLY CONSULT WITH, INCLUDING THE LOCAL INTERNET COMMUNITY, BEFORE A DELEGATION OCCURS.\r\n\r\nIF YOU KNOW DIFFERENTLY ABOUT THE CURRENT OPERATION OF IQ, THIS WOULD BE HELPFUL TO SAY SOMETHING.\r\n\r\n>>ERIC BRUNNER-WILLIAMS: A YEAR AGO, I STARTED DOCUMENTING THE EFFECT OF THE NETWORK OPERATIONS IN IRAQ AS WELL AS THE EFFECT ON THE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE OR THE NIC IN IRAQ. CURRENTLY, THE SPONSORS ARE IN U.S. CUSTODY. THEY WERE, AT THE TIME, IN TEXAS AND THEY\'VE BEEN TAKEN INTO FEDERAL CUSTODY FOR REASONS WHICH ARE IRRELEVANT. AND I\'VE WRITTEN A SUMMARY OF HOW TO TAKE CONTROL OF DOT IQ, PRESUMING ONE IS WILLING TO COMMIT A MINOR CRIME, WHICH YOU CAN FIND AT THE FOLLOWING URL. IQ.NIC-NAA.NET. AND UNDERNEATH THERE THERE SHOULD STILL BE THE NOC PAGE WHICH DESCRIBES THE DESTRUCTION OF THE IRAQI INFRASTRUCTURE, AS WELL AS (INAUDIBLE) AS WELL AS THE STEPS ONE WOULD GO THROUGH IN ORDER TO SEIZE DOT IQ, EITHER BY SEIZING ITS ADDRESS SPACE OR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SPONSOR AND ICANN.\r\n\r\nSO IT\'S ALL THERE AS FAR AS I KNOW, AND THAT\'S STILL CURRENT DATA. THEY\'RE STILL IN JAIL.\r\nTHANK YOU.\r\n\r\n>>VINT CERF: OKAY. NOT TO HOLD EVERYBODY UP. MAYBE WE CAN TAKE THIS OFF-LINE TO GET MORE DETAIL.\r\nCOULD I TAKE THE NEXT QUESTION.\r\n\r\n>>STEPHEN DYER: STEPHEN DYER, NOMINET. THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE LAST ONE, BUT NOT ON THE IRAQI, VINT. I\'M STEPHEN DYER.\r\n\r\nTHE POINT I MADE, IS THAT COUNTRY CODES WERE BEING USED DIFFERENTLY FROM THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE ALLOCATED. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THE POINT THAT USUALLY MISUSE OF DOMAINS IS A LEGAL MATTER TO DO WITH DO I HAVE OWNERSHIP OF IT. IS IT MY TRADEMARK OR HAS SOMEONE ELSE STOLEN MY TRADEMARK. IT\'S QUITE DANGEROUS, I THINK, IF WE TREAD INTO THE AREA OF SAYING WE SHOULD TAKE THIS DOMAIN NAME AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH IT FROM WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE. I THINK THAT\'S A VERY DANGEROUS ROAD TO GO DOWN, AND I THINK IT NEEDS VERY CAREFUL CONSIDERATION BEFORE WE DO SO. THANK YOU.\r\n\r\n>>VINT CERF: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THIS DOES GET TO THE QUESTION OF INTENT BEHIND THE ORIGINAL ALLOCATION OF THE CCTLDS, AND THE RECOGNITION THAT THE AREA\'S GOVERNANCE OR HOW DO I -- THERE\'S A FORMULA THE GAC USES ABOUT AREAS OF ECONOMIC INTEREST. 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