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WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads.
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The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory. More than 10,000 plugins are in the directory, every one of them GPL compatible and free as in both beer and speech. Here’s what we have in mind:
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We want to provide developers the tools they need to build the best possible plugins. We’re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We’ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins.
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We want to improve how the core software works with your plugin and the plugin directory. We’re going to focus on ensuring seamless upgrades by making the best possible determinations about compatibility, and offer continual improvements to the plugin installer. And we also want to give you a better developer tool set like SVN notifications and improvements to the bug tracker.
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We’re also going to experiment with other great ideas to help the community help plugin authors. We want it to be easy for you to offer comments to plugin authors and the community, including user reviews and better feedback. We may experiment with an adoption process for abandoned plugins as a way to revitalize hidden gems in the directory. I’m not sure there is a better way to show how extendable WordPress is and how awesome this community is at the same time.
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As Matt said in the 3.0 release announcement, our goal isn’t to make everything perfect all at once. But we think incremental improvements can provide us with a great base for 3.1 and beyond, and for the tens of millions of users, and hundreds of millions of plugin downloads to come.
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It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or raise a toast) with new friends and collaborators. Here are the WordCamps scheduled for this summer, along with what I know about them.
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July 3: WordCamp Germany – Berlin, Germany. I love it that they’re using BuddyPress for their event site. They have multiple tracks, and what looks to be a nice variety of sessions. It’s only a few days away, so if you’re thinking of going, get your tickets now!
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July 10: WordCamp Boulder – Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver last year, but the organizers have decided to mix it up and go back and forth between Denver and Boulder, which also has a thriving tech community. This year the venue is the Boulder Theater (so pretty!), and there will sessions for bloggers and devs alike, plus a Genius Bar to help people get their WordPress sites all fixed up. The speaker lineup looks good, and I hear they’re pumping up the wifi this year. I’ll be there, likely hunched over a notebook with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of WordPress for Dummies and BuddyPress for Dummies) to talk about the WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed the new lighter “on” state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a new default WordCamp.org theme (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!
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July 17–18: WordCamp UK- Manchester, England, UK. The roving WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, and is probably the closest to BarCamp style of all the WordCamps, using a wiki to plan some speakers/sessions and organizing the rest ad-hoc on the first day of the event. I’ll be attending this one as well, and am looking forward to seeing WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I’m also looking forward to meeting some core contributors for the first time in person, like Simon Wheatley and John O’Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on the organizing team of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!
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July 24: WordCamp Nigeria – Lagos, Nigeria. Their site seems to have a virus, so no link from here, but if you’re in Nigeria and interested in attending/getting involved, a quick Google search will get you to the organizers.
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August 7: WordCamp Houston – Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, birthplace of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give the keynote. WordCamp Houston is running three tracks — Business, Blogger and Developer — in recognition of the fact that people who are interested in using WordPress for their business may not actually be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a “CMS” track at previous WordCamps (including NYC 2009), but with WordPress 3.0 supporting CMS functionality out of the box, “Business” is a much more appropriate label. Who wants to bet on if there will be BBQ for lunch?
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August 7 : WordCamp Iowa – Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I’ve emailed the organizer and will update this post once I know more.
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August 7–8: WordCamp New Zealand – Auckland, New Zealand. They haven’t announced this year’s speakers or topics, but they’ve been running polls to get community input into the program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be shifting seasons and will be in February instead, when the weather is nicer.
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August 20–22: WordCamp Savannah – Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: I am completely biased about Savannah, since I’m one of the organizers. This will be the first WordCamp in Savannah, and it’s being held at the Savannah College of Art and Design River Club, an awesome venue that used to be a cotton warehouse or something like that. Since Savannah doesn’t really have a cohesive WordPress community yet (though a fair number of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta earlier this year), this WordCamp is aimed squarely at building a local community. We’ll have a local meet-and-greet, regular sessions with visiting speakers (lots of core contributors coming to this one, plus Matt), and on Sunday it will be combination unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, and a potluck! We’ll also be running a pre-WordCamp workshop for people who have never used WordPress but want to get started, so that they’ll be able to follow the presentations and conversations littered with WordPress-specific vocabulary over the weekend. Ticket sales just opened, so get your tickets now.
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It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or raise a toast) with new friends and collaborators. Here are the WordCamps scheduled for this summer, along with what I know about them.
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July 3: WordCamp Germany – Berlin, Germany. I love it that they’re using BuddyPress for their event site. They have multiple tracks, and what looks to be a nice variety of sessions. It’s only a few days away, so if you’re thinking of going, get your tickets now!
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July 10: WordCamp Boulder – Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver last year, but the organizers have decided to mix it up and go back and forth between Denver and Boulder, which also has a thriving tech community. This year the venue is the Boulder Theater (so pretty!), and there will sessions for bloggers and devs alike, plus a Genius Bar to help people get their WordPress sites all fixed up. The speaker lineup looks good, and I hear they’re pumping up the wifi this year. I’ll be there, likely hunched over a notebook with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of WordPress for Dummies and BuddyPress for Dummies) to talk about the WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed the new lighter “on” state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a new default WordCamp.org theme (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!
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July 17–18: WordCamp UK- Manchester, England, UK. The roving WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, and is probably the closest to BarCamp style of all the WordCamps, using a wiki to plan some speakers/sessions and organizing the rest ad-hoc on the first day of the event. I’ll be attending this one as well, and am looking forward to seeing WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I’m also looking forward to meeting some core contributors for the first time in person, like Simon Wheatley and John O’Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on the organizing team of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!
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July 24: WordCamp Nigeria – Lagos, Nigeria. Their site seems to have a virus, so no link from here, but if you’re in Nigeria and interested in attending/getting involved, a quick Google search will get you to the organizers.
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August 7: WordCamp Houston – Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, birthplace of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give the keynote. WordCamp Houston is running three tracks — Business, Blogger and Developer — in recognition of the fact that people who are interested in using WordPress for their business may not actually be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a “CMS” track at previous WordCamps (including NYC 2009), but with WordPress 3.0 supporting CMS functionality out of the box, “Business” is a much more appropriate label. Who wants to bet on if there will be BBQ for lunch?
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August 7 : WordCamp Iowa – Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I’ve emailed the organizer and will update this post once I know more.
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August 7–8: WordCamp New Zealand – Auckland, New Zealand. They haven’t announced this year’s speakers or topics, but they’ve been running polls to get community input into the program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be shifting seasons and will be in February instead, when the weather is nicer.
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August 20–22: WordCamp Savannah – Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: I am completely biased about Savannah, since I’m one of the organizers. This will be the first WordCamp in Savannah, and it’s being held at the Savannah College of Art and Design River Club, an awesome venue that used to be a cotton warehouse or something like that. Since Savannah doesn’t really have a cohesive WordPress community yet (though a fair number of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta earlier this year), this WordCamp is aimed squarely at building a local community. We’ll have a local meet-and-greet, regular sessions with visiting speakers (lots of core contributors coming to this one, plus Matt), and on Sunday it will be combination unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, and a potluck! We’ll also be running a pre-WordCamp workshop for people who have never used WordPress but want to get started, so that they’ll be able to follow the presentations and conversations littered with WordPress-specific vocabulary over the weekend. Ticket sales just opened, so get your tickets now.
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Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video. (In HD, if you can, so you can catch the Easter eggs.)
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If you’d like to embed the WordPress 3.0 video tour in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:
For a more comprehensive look at everything that has improved in 3.0 check out 3.0′s Codex page or the long list of issues in Trac. (We’re trying to keep these announcement posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packed into one release. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the 3.X cycle we’ll be in for the next two and a half years.
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The Future
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Normally this is where I’d say we’re about to start work on 3.1, but we’re actually not. We’re going to take a release cycle off to focus on all of the things around WordPress. The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else. Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless. The goal of the teams isn’t going to be to make things perfect all at once, just better than they are today. We think this investment of time will give us a much stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for the many tens of millions of users that will join us during the 3.X release cycle.
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It Takes a Village
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I’m proud to acknowledge the contributions of the following 218 people to the 3.0 release cycle. These are the folks that make WordPress what it is, whose collaboration and hard work enable us to build something greater than the sum of our parts. In alphabetical order, of course.
If you’ve made it this far, check out my 2010 State of the Word speech at WordCamp San Francisco, it’s jam-packed with information on the growth of WordPress, 3.0, what we’re planning for the future, and the philosophy of WordPress.
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Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video. (In HD, if you can, so you can catch the Easter eggs.)
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If you’d like to embed the WordPress 3.0 video tour in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:
For a more comprehensive look at everything that has improved in 3.0 check out 3.0′s Codex page or the long list of issues in Trac. (We’re trying to keep these announcement posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packed into one release. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the 3.X cycle we’ll be in for the next two and a half years.
\n
The Future
\n
Normally this is where I’d say we’re about to start work on 3.1, but we’re actually not. We’re going to take a release cycle off to focus on all of the things around WordPress. The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else. Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless. The goal of the teams isn’t going to be to make things perfect all at once, just better than they are today. We think this investment of time will give us a much stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for the many tens of millions of users that will join us during the 3.X release cycle.
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It Takes a Village
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I’m proud to acknowledge the contributions of the following 218 people to the 3.0 release cycle. These are the folks that make WordPress what it is, whose collaboration and hard work enable us to build something greater than the sum of our parts. In alphabetical order, of course.
If you’ve made it this far, check out my 2010 State of the Word speech at WordCamp San Francisco, it’s jam-packed with information on the growth of WordPress, 3.0, what we’re planning for the future, and the philosophy of WordPress.
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A weekend present, in haiku:
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Last call; final bugs \nItch, scratch, contort; calmly wait \nFor now: RC3
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A weekend present, in haiku:
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Last call; final bugs \nItch, scratch, contort; calmly wait \nFor now: RC3
\n\";}i:6;a:13:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Expanding the Theme Review Experiment\";s:4:\"link\";s:72:\"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/expanding-the-theme-review-experiment/\";s:8:\"comments\";s:81:\"http://wordpress.org/news/2010/06/expanding-the-theme-review-experiment/#comments\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:06:11 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Joseph Scott\";}s:8:\"category\";s:26:\"CommunityDevelopmentThemes\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1347\";s:11:\"description\";s:272:\"When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today I’m going to rephrase and [...]\";s:7:\"content\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";s:1962:\"
When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase:
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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today I’m going to rephrase and re-purpose that line:
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Now is the time for great theme developers to come to the aid of their community.
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The theme directory has been chugging along for more than a year now. During that time we’ve tinkered with the review process and some of the management tools, but haven’t really opened it up as much as we’d like. It’s time to rip off the band-aid and take some action; to that end, we’re looking for community members to help with the process of reviewing themes for the directory.
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Right now this is a bit like a New Year’s resolution to exercise every day: it’s what we need to do, but we’re still figuring out exactly how it will all work. That’s part of the community involvement as well — we expect that those who pitch in will also help shape the process.
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What’s involved in reviewing themes for the directory? There are some obvious things, such as being familiar with PHP and WordPress theme code (and the theme development checklist), with an eye for security issues. You would also need to have the ability to set up a separate install of the latest version of WordPress for testing theme submissions.
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Hopefully a few talented theme developers are reading this right now and saying to themselves, “I’d love to help! How do I get started?” Just join the new theme reviewers mailing list and we’ll get you up to speed on this new opportunity to come to the aid of your community.
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When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase:
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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
\n
For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today I’m going to rephrase and re-purpose that line:
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Now is the time for great theme developers to come to the aid of their community.
\n
The theme directory has been chugging along for more than a year now. During that time we’ve tinkered with the review process and some of the management tools, but haven’t really opened it up as much as we’d like. It’s time to rip off the band-aid and take some action; to that end, we’re looking for community members to help with the process of reviewing themes for the directory.
\n
Right now this is a bit like a New Year’s resolution to exercise every day: it’s what we need to do, but we’re still figuring out exactly how it will all work. That’s part of the community involvement as well — we expect that those who pitch in will also help shape the process.
\n
What’s involved in reviewing themes for the directory? There are some obvious things, such as being familiar with PHP and WordPress theme code (and the theme development checklist), with an eye for security issues. You would also need to have the ability to set up a separate install of the latest version of WordPress for testing theme submissions.
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Hopefully a few talented theme developers are reading this right now and saying to themselves, “I’d love to help! How do I get started?” Just join the new theme reviewers mailing list and we’ll get you up to speed on this new opportunity to come to the aid of your community.
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As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using WordPress with a wide variety of configurations and hosting setups, it’s entirely possible that we’ve missed something. So! For the brave of heart, please download the RC and test it out (but not on your live site unless you’re extra adventurous). Some things to know:
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Custom menus are finished! Yay!
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Multi-site is all set.
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The look of the WordPress admin has been lightened up a little bit, so you can focus more on your content.
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There are a ton of changes, so plugin authors, please test your plugins now, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release.
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Plugin and theme *users* are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause.
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As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using WordPress with a wide variety of configurations and hosting setups, it’s entirely possible that we’ve missed something. So! For the brave of heart, please download the RC and test it out (but not on your live site unless you’re extra adventurous). Some things to know:
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Custom menus are finished! Yay!
\n
Multi-site is all set.
\n
The look of the WordPress admin has been lightened up a little bit, so you can focus more on your content.
\n
There are a ton of changes, so plugin authors, please test your plugins now, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release.
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Plugin and theme *users* are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause.
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Notification: Besides a blog post one day prior (which largely appeared to be a new theme announcement for Coraline) and a forum post five days prior (titled simply “Use Custom CSS and Cutline? Please Test Your Site”), only Custom CSS users were sent emails notifying them of the change. To make matters worse, several Custom CSS users claim that they received no such notification.
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Timing: The change from Cutline to Coraline occurred while WordPress.com’s support staff was on hiatus. In fact, they’re still on hiatus until August 16th. Fortunately, the theme team was actively browsing the forums at the time, but the sudden theme change and lack of traditional support left many users bewildered.
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One thing is for sure, Cutline won’t be coming back. According to a recent post by Matt Mullenweg, PressRow will be the next theme on the chopping block. Mr. Mullenweg states that the widget loss bug has been corrected, and one can only hope that the notification will improve and that traditional support will be available this time around.
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The WordPress.com theme team has quickly phased out Cutline across all blogs, replacing it with the visually similar Coraline. According to the theme team, Coraline is “an improved version of [Cutline]. It has a similar visual design, and adds many new features.”
\n
The forced change has not been taken well by many WordPress.com users, particularly those who purchased the custom CSS upgrade specifically to modify Cutline. Numerous users have cited that although Coraline is functionally superior and visually similar to Cutline, it is simply not Cutline, a theme they deliberately chose for their blogs. Some have even referred to Coraline as visually inferior to Cutline.
\n
So far, the change has been marred by three issues:
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Lost widgets: A bug caused most blogs to lose their sidebar widgets during the change. The WordPress.com team is working to restore these widgets from backups, but the process is slow and still underway.
\n
Notification: Besides a blog post one day prior (which largely appeared to be a new theme announcement for Coraline) and a forum post five days prior (titled simply “Use Custom CSS and Cutline? Please Test Your Site”), only Custom CSS users were sent emails notifying them of the change. To make matters worse, several Custom CSS users claim that they received no such notification.
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Timing: The change from Cutline to Coraline occurred while WordPress.com’s support staff was on hiatus. In fact, they’re still on hiatus until August 16th. Fortunately, the theme team was actively browsing the forums at the time, but the sudden theme change and lack of traditional support left many users bewildered.
\n
\n
One thing is for sure, Cutline won’t be coming back. According to a recent post by Matt Mullenweg, PressRow will be the next theme on the chopping block. Mr. Mullenweg states that the widget loss bug has been corrected, and one can only hope that the notification will improve and that traditional support will be available this time around.
\";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/12\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8360\";s:4:\"link\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/12/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0812/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3018:\"
New plugins
\n
Extended Text provides a text widget which can be hidden by adding page ids to the widget.
\n
MyPress allows you to customize your WordPress admin area and login screen with your logos and your color scheme. MyPress also gives you the opportunity of making your own unique administration area without touching code and without having previous knowledge in CSS or HTML.
\n
ShushThatNoise allows you to hide unwanted comments without deleting them. Edit the comment and wrap the offending text in [shush][/shush]. Readers can choose to read the hidden comment by clicking on the “Show” link.
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Simple Music allows you to easily play any MP3 as a sidebar widget on your blog.
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WP Socializer is an advanced and powerful plugin for adding social bookmarking links, retweet buttons, Google buzz buttons, Digg buttons, Addthis buttons, Facebook buttons with inbuilt setup.
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Updated plugins
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All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meat tags).
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FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts.
WP Google-buzz automatically displays a Google Buzz button for every post.
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YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter is the bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account. The plugin also works with public popular services such as TinyURL, tr.im, is.gd or bit.ly.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:00:12 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3018:\"
New plugins
\n
Extended Text provides a text widget which can be hidden by adding page ids to the widget.
\n
MyPress allows you to customize your WordPress admin area and login screen with your logos and your color scheme. MyPress also gives you the opportunity of making your own unique administration area without touching code and without having previous knowledge in CSS or HTML.
\n
ShushThatNoise allows you to hide unwanted comments without deleting them. Edit the comment and wrap the offending text in [shush][/shush]. Readers can choose to read the hidden comment by clicking on the “Show” link.
\n
Simple Music allows you to easily play any MP3 as a sidebar widget on your blog.
\n
WP Socializer is an advanced and powerful plugin for adding social bookmarking links, retweet buttons, Google buzz buttons, Digg buttons, Addthis buttons, Facebook buttons with inbuilt setup.
\n
Updated plugins
\n
All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meat tags).
\n
FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts.
WP Google-buzz automatically displays a Google Buzz button for every post.
\n
YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter is the bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account. The plugin also works with public popular services such as TinyURL, tr.im, is.gd or bit.ly.
The TED Blog was previously running on MovableType.
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Content wise, the TEDTalks videos are fascinating and insightful, and they are very popular and easy to share with the over 12M bloggers on WordPress.com .
The TED Blog was previously running on MovableType.
\n
Content wise, the TEDTalks videos are fascinating and insightful, and they are very popular and easy to share with the over 12M bloggers on WordPress.com .
I’ve been collecting questions for the last few days for an O’Grady-style Q&A on Carrington Build.
\n
\n
Is Carrington Build a plugin or a theme?
\n
Carrington Build isn’t a traditional WordPress product (a single theme or plugin). It is probably best thought of as the foundation or feature of a theme (for example, a component of our Carrington Business theme) because the best results will be seen with tightly integrated CSS and theme styling.
\n
How does pricing work/why is Build so expensive?
\n
We’ve tried to set up the pricing structure to reflect the value it provides and do so in a way that is appropriate for each group of folks who will be using it (end-users, WordPress professionals, commercial product developers). I’ve written a more detailed post about the pricing structure here but it’s probably best to refer to the official FAQ (this one gets updated).
\n
What about people who run a network of blogs (multiple sites) and want to integrate Build into all of the sites, perhaps in several different themes?
\n
We don’t have a set pricing structure for this use case yet. We’ve discussed needs with several people who have this situation, but I don’t think that we have enough information to create a policy that will work well in a general case yet. If this sounds like something you need, get in touch and we’ll figure our something that makes sense.
\n
What is the license for Carrington Build?
\n
All of the products I’ve released for WordPress (personally, or through Crowd Favorite) are 100% GPL; some are also commercial (including Carrington Build and the Carrington Business theme).
\n
What about the claims onTwitter that Build isn’t 100% GPL?
We strongly considered using a split license; even went to the effort and expense of having the C2GPL license created during those deliberations. The purpose of the C2GPL license is to create a commercially viable and defensible environment for a product while staying GPL compliant and providing many of the user freedoms that the GPL does.
\n
Why did you consider using this license instead of 100% GPL?
\n
There are a number of reasons. We have a huge financial investment in Carrington Build. You can measure an investment like this in hard costs, opportunity costs (revenue lost while creating it) or any other number of ways, but any way you slice it we’re 6 figures into it. It is important to me to make sure it is commercially viable, not just to recoup development costs and hopefully have the product be profitable, but more importantly so that we can easily fund future development. We have a long list of features we want to create for Build. The WordPress community isn’t the same as it was yesterday. Today’s WordPress community is well served by commercial products.
\n
Can you expand on that last point?
\n
Over the years WordPress has evolved from a DIY/hobbiest package to a polished CMS with very little barrier to entry. As a result, the profile of a WordPress user has changed, today’s typical WordPress user is not a developer who wants to tinker with the code. Today’s typical WordPress user is someone who just wants things to work, wants access to customer support when needed, and wants to see new features added over time. Commercial software models work well to achieve this.
\n
Isn’t a split license bad?
\n
I don’t think it’s inherently evil, though others will certainly disagree with me. I think it’s dangerous to argue about the spirit of something. There is a lot of room to for interpretation about the spirit of a license. Ultimately it’s a legal document and we are bound by the letter of it, not the spirit. Practically, using a split license would make some things more difficult. For example, if someone wants to create a commercial theme with Build and release it as 100% GPL, that wouldn’t be possible if we had released Build under a split license.
\n
So why did you create a split license and decide not to use it?
\n
The reason above was important, but really I wanted to go GPL the whole way. I also want to be able to ensure that the product is financially viable. I’m still not completely sure we can do that while being 100% GPL, but we received assurances that this wouldn’t be an issue and we’re giving it a chance. I’m cautiously optimistic – I know that the value proposition is very fair, and we’re working to provide great resources for our customers. Hopefully this proves to work nicely and becomes the first of many commercial GPL WordPress offerings we release. It will largely depend on how the community responds and embraces Carrington Build and Carrington Business as commercial GPL products.
\n
Why not just sell support? Isn’t that the Open Source way?
\n
We certainly are providing support, but the better your product/documentation/etc., the less support people need. The normal reward for creating a great product is lower support costs. It seems people want to suggest the opposite system here. We want to create a high quality product and charge a fair rate for it. If this works, we’ll invest more in this type of development around WordPress. If it doesn’t, we probably won’t (and I don’t think others will either). I think that would be a real shame.
We’ll have to wait and see on that. I hope so; I definitely believe it’s one of the biggest development efforts for WordPress to date.
\n
Why do you think that is?
\n
A couple of reasons I guess. Firstly, the group of developers that has the kind of experience with WordPress to identify this as a problem and conceive of this type of solution (integrated the way it is) is a fairly small group. Of those folks, only a handful have development shops big enough that they can absorb this type of speculative development investment in a product. I’ve spoken with other WordPress dev shops about creating products in the past and there are a few reasons they have given for not wanting to invest too heavily. One is the license concerns and commercial viability discussed previously. Some have also expressed concern that their work would simply get rolled into WordPress core and they’d never get a chance to make it a profitable product. If we can prove that the commercial GPL model works for large scale product offerings, I think it can really open up the door to what WordPress developers can offer the community.
\n
Several people have already talked about having Build added to WordPress core, can we assume you are against that?
\n
For now, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. There are a number of reasons, here are a few. Build is very young compared to WordPress core, it needs to evolve on a different timeline than the WordPress core release schedule. By keeping it separate, we can roll out feature additions, bug fixes, etc. without worrying about the full WordPress release cycle. Another reason is that themes are already getting more sophisticated and adding more and more features. I’m not sure that tight Build integration is something that all themes should have to worry about – not every site needs it. Also, I want to see a return on what we’ve invested in it.
\n
Wouldn’t it be best for the community to roll it into WordPress core so that everyone can use it for free?
\n
I don’t think so. If developers see that it isn’t financially viable to create something like this, very few will be willing to undertake it. Look at the gold rush for the iOS app store. Developers aren’t flocking there to give things away, they are building for the platform because they think they can make money at it.
I’d certainly be open to discussing it, though haven’t had any indications it’s something they would be interested in. Don’t get me wrong, I want to get Build out to the community as widely as possible. I actually feel that this is what I’m ultimately giving it a chance to do by making it a commercial product.
\n
You’ve talked about the cost of creating Build, why did it cost so much?
\n
Releasing software properly is hard. I don’t know that you can really appreciate it if you haven’t done it before. Here’s a partial overview of what went into the creation of Carrington Build:\n
\n
Come up with the idea and polish it, which took years of experience building on WordPress and years of listening to client requirements.
\n
Architect the WordPress integration for optimal developer flexibility while making sure it used only standard WordPress data storage, APIs, etc.
\n
Design the end-user interaction, creating a UI that is flexible and extensible.
\n
Architect a system to support the row and module concept, and how those components interact together.
\n
Use best practices including internationalization support, lots of developer friendly hooks, etc.
\n
Implement the core system.
\n
Implement rows, and the individual rows.
\n
implement modules, and create each module.
\n
Roll out on client projects, revising extensively for real-world use cases.
\n
Create (and maintain) example theme/reference implementations.
\n
Create (and maintain) documentation, for both end-users and developers.
\n
Create videos to try to explain how everything works.
\n
Create demo site and sample data so people can give it a real test drive.
\n
\n
If you really care about what you’re putting out there, you’ll be making lots of revisions, tightening things up and adjusting things that were created before new features and additions influenced how other features work, etc. And if you do it all right, it looks effortless.
\n
Can Build be integrated into an existing site/theme?
\n
Definitely. We have done several reference implementations into existing themes so that our Developer and Royalty Edition customers have good roadmaps to use (besides our Carrington Business theme). Our WordPress HelpCenter team offers a Build integration service and Sprout Venture is offering these services as well.
\n
Can I make my own modules?
\n
Absolutely. We created Build to be extremely flexible for new modules and features, after all we are our own customer here.
\n
Is it easy to create a module?
\n
Yes, think widgets – with a little extra functionality.
\n
Can I include Carrington Build in a commercial plugin/theme?
\n
Certainly, that is exactly what our Royalty Edition is for. Contact us for details.
\n
In Carrington Business, Build is restricted to pages, can it be used on posts and other custom post types?
\n
Yes, the list of allowed post types is a simple array that is passed through a filter, so it can be customized on a per-site or per-theme basis.
\n
You mention that the data is stored using WordPress data structures, how do you do that?
\n
The data is stored efficiently in custom fields so that it “just works” and should be pretty future-proof.
\n
If the data is stored in custom fields, does this break search?
\n
No, each module implements a way to provide a “text value”. These are put together and stored in the normal post content so that things like search and excerpts work just as expected.
\n
Does it upgrade well?
\n
We have only tested from 2.8 to 2.9 to 3.0, but so far there had not been any issues. We can’t tell the future, but since it uses standard WP data structure and hooks it should be quite forward compatible.
\n
Is Carrington Build internationalized?
\n
Yes, as is Carrington Business.
\n
Is it compatible with QTranslate?
\n
Not out of the box, but I think we could get it there without many changes to how Build works. It would be fun to get that type of integration created.
\n
I am a bit confused about Carrington Build and the Carrington Framework. What are these?
\n
Yeah, it’s a a little confusing, especially since the term “framework” was co-opted to mean “parent theme” by folks who don’t really understand development frameworks. The Carrington Framework (released in 2008) is a template selection engine that allows you to replace conditional PHP coding with simple template naming conventions. Carrington Build is our advanced layout system. I think in the future you’ll see us refer to the Carrington Platform, which includes Carrington Build and Carrington Core (the template engine). Hopefully that will make it easier to understand going forward. We have a bit of clean-up to do in order to reinforce this naming change in a bunch of places.
\n
How is Carrington Build different/better than Product X?
\n
I’ve been really surprised at how many people have emailed and asked this, and then been upset when I don’t want to engage in this discussion. I have no desire to disparage other products and I know my product much better than others so I’m really too biased anyway. I’d rather let other folks make those types of comparisons.
\n
Anything else?
\n
Lots of stuff, but this post is already way too long – we’ll save the rest for later. Thanks for reading.
\n
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I’ve been collecting questions for the last few days for an O’Grady-style Q&A on Carrington Build.
\n
\n
Is Carrington Build a plugin or a theme?
\n
Carrington Build isn’t a traditional WordPress product (a single theme or plugin). It is probably best thought of as the foundation or feature of a theme (for example, a component of our Carrington Business theme) because the best results will be seen with tightly integrated CSS and theme styling.
\n
How does pricing work/why is Build so expensive?
\n
We’ve tried to set up the pricing structure to reflect the value it provides and do so in a way that is appropriate for each group of folks who will be using it (end-users, WordPress professionals, commercial product developers). I’ve written a more detailed post about the pricing structure here but it’s probably best to refer to the official FAQ (this one gets updated).
\n
What about people who run a network of blogs (multiple sites) and want to integrate Build into all of the sites, perhaps in several different themes?
\n
We don’t have a set pricing structure for this use case yet. We’ve discussed needs with several people who have this situation, but I don’t think that we have enough information to create a policy that will work well in a general case yet. If this sounds like something you need, get in touch and we’ll figure our something that makes sense.
\n
What is the license for Carrington Build?
\n
All of the products I’ve released for WordPress (personally, or through Crowd Favorite) are 100% GPL; some are also commercial (including Carrington Build and the Carrington Business theme).
\n
What about the claims onTwitter that Build isn’t 100% GPL?
We strongly considered using a split license; even went to the effort and expense of having the C2GPL license created during those deliberations. The purpose of the C2GPL license is to create a commercially viable and defensible environment for a product while staying GPL compliant and providing many of the user freedoms that the GPL does.
\n
Why did you consider using this license instead of 100% GPL?
\n
There are a number of reasons. We have a huge financial investment in Carrington Build. You can measure an investment like this in hard costs, opportunity costs (revenue lost while creating it) or any other number of ways, but any way you slice it we’re 6 figures into it. It is important to me to make sure it is commercially viable, not just to recoup development costs and hopefully have the product be profitable, but more importantly so that we can easily fund future development. We have a long list of features we want to create for Build. The WordPress community isn’t the same as it was yesterday. Today’s WordPress community is well served by commercial products.
\n
Can you expand on that last point?
\n
Over the years WordPress has evolved from a DIY/hobbiest package to a polished CMS with very little barrier to entry. As a result, the profile of a WordPress user has changed, today’s typical WordPress user is not a developer who wants to tinker with the code. Today’s typical WordPress user is someone who just wants things to work, wants access to customer support when needed, and wants to see new features added over time. Commercial software models work well to achieve this.
\n
Isn’t a split license bad?
\n
I don’t think it’s inherently evil, though others will certainly disagree with me. I think it’s dangerous to argue about the spirit of something. There is a lot of room to for interpretation about the spirit of a license. Ultimately it’s a legal document and we are bound by the letter of it, not the spirit. Practically, using a split license would make some things more difficult. For example, if someone wants to create a commercial theme with Build and release it as 100% GPL, that wouldn’t be possible if we had released Build under a split license.
\n
So why did you create a split license and decide not to use it?
\n
The reason above was important, but really I wanted to go GPL the whole way. I also want to be able to ensure that the product is financially viable. I’m still not completely sure we can do that while being 100% GPL, but we received assurances that this wouldn’t be an issue and we’re giving it a chance. I’m cautiously optimistic – I know that the value proposition is very fair, and we’re working to provide great resources for our customers. Hopefully this proves to work nicely and becomes the first of many commercial GPL WordPress offerings we release. It will largely depend on how the community responds and embraces Carrington Build and Carrington Business as commercial GPL products.
\n
Why not just sell support? Isn’t that the Open Source way?
\n
We certainly are providing support, but the better your product/documentation/etc., the less support people need. The normal reward for creating a great product is lower support costs. It seems people want to suggest the opposite system here. We want to create a high quality product and charge a fair rate for it. If this works, we’ll invest more in this type of development around WordPress. If it doesn’t, we probably won’t (and I don’t think others will either). I think that would be a real shame.
We’ll have to wait and see on that. I hope so; I definitely believe it’s one of the biggest development efforts for WordPress to date.
\n
Why do you think that is?
\n
A couple of reasons I guess. Firstly, the group of developers that has the kind of experience with WordPress to identify this as a problem and conceive of this type of solution (integrated the way it is) is a fairly small group. Of those folks, only a handful have development shops big enough that they can absorb this type of speculative development investment in a product. I’ve spoken with other WordPress dev shops about creating products in the past and there are a few reasons they have given for not wanting to invest too heavily. One is the license concerns and commercial viability discussed previously. Some have also expressed concern that their work would simply get rolled into WordPress core and they’d never get a chance to make it a profitable product. If we can prove that the commercial GPL model works for large scale product offerings, I think it can really open up the door to what WordPress developers can offer the community.
\n
Several people have already talked about having Build added to WordPress core, can we assume you are against that?
\n
For now, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. There are a number of reasons, here are a few. Build is very young compared to WordPress core, it needs to evolve on a different timeline than the WordPress core release schedule. By keeping it separate, we can roll out feature additions, bug fixes, etc. without worrying about the full WordPress release cycle. Another reason is that themes are already getting more sophisticated and adding more and more features. I’m not sure that tight Build integration is something that all themes should have to worry about – not every site needs it. Also, I want to see a return on what we’ve invested in it.
\n
Wouldn’t it be best for the community to roll it into WordPress core so that everyone can use it for free?
\n
I don’t think so. If developers see that it isn’t financially viable to create something like this, very few will be willing to undertake it. Look at the gold rush for the iOS app store. Developers aren’t flocking there to give things away, they are building for the platform because they think they can make money at it.
I’d certainly be open to discussing it, though haven’t had any indications it’s something they would be interested in. Don’t get me wrong, I want to get Build out to the community as widely as possible. I actually feel that this is what I’m ultimately giving it a chance to do by making it a commercial product.
\n
You’ve talked about the cost of creating Build, why did it cost so much?
\n
Releasing software properly is hard. I don’t know that you can really appreciate it if you haven’t done it before. Here’s a partial overview of what went into the creation of Carrington Build:\n
\n
Come up with the idea and polish it, which took years of experience building on WordPress and years of listening to client requirements.
\n
Architect the WordPress integration for optimal developer flexibility while making sure it used only standard WordPress data storage, APIs, etc.
\n
Design the end-user interaction, creating a UI that is flexible and extensible.
\n
Architect a system to support the row and module concept, and how those components interact together.
\n
Use best practices including internationalization support, lots of developer friendly hooks, etc.
\n
Implement the core system.
\n
Implement rows, and the individual rows.
\n
implement modules, and create each module.
\n
Roll out on client projects, revising extensively for real-world use cases.
\n
Create (and maintain) example theme/reference implementations.
\n
Create (and maintain) documentation, for both end-users and developers.
\n
Create videos to try to explain how everything works.
\n
Create demo site and sample data so people can give it a real test drive.
\n
\n
If you really care about what you’re putting out there, you’ll be making lots of revisions, tightening things up and adjusting things that were created before new features and additions influenced how other features work, etc. And if you do it all right, it looks effortless.
\n
Can Build be integrated into an existing site/theme?
\n
Definitely. We have done several reference implementations into existing themes so that our Developer and Royalty Edition customers have good roadmaps to use (besides our Carrington Business theme). Our WordPress HelpCenter team offers a Build integration service and Sprout Venture is offering these services as well.
\n
Can I make my own modules?
\n
Absolutely. We created Build to be extremely flexible for new modules and features, after all we are our own customer here.
\n
Is it easy to create a module?
\n
Yes, think widgets – with a little extra functionality.
\n
Can I include Carrington Build in a commercial plugin/theme?
\n
Certainly, that is exactly what our Royalty Edition is for. Contact us for details.
\n
In Carrington Business, Build is restricted to pages, can it be used on posts and other custom post types?
\n
Yes, the list of allowed post types is a simple array that is passed through a filter, so it can be customized on a per-site or per-theme basis.
\n
You mention that the data is stored using WordPress data structures, how do you do that?
\n
The data is stored efficiently in custom fields so that it “just works” and should be pretty future-proof.
\n
If the data is stored in custom fields, does this break search?
\n
No, each module implements a way to provide a “text value”. These are put together and stored in the normal post content so that things like search and excerpts work just as expected.
\n
Does it upgrade well?
\n
We have only tested from 2.8 to 2.9 to 3.0, but so far there had not been any issues. We can’t tell the future, but since it uses standard WP data structure and hooks it should be quite forward compatible.
\n
Is Carrington Build internationalized?
\n
Yes, as is Carrington Business.
\n
Is it compatible with QTranslate?
\n
Not out of the box, but I think we could get it there without many changes to how Build works. It would be fun to get that type of integration created.
\n
I am a bit confused about Carrington Build and the Carrington Framework. What are these?
\n
Yeah, it’s a a little confusing, especially since the term “framework” was co-opted to mean “parent theme” by folks who don’t really understand development frameworks. The Carrington Framework (released in 2008) is a template selection engine that allows you to replace conditional PHP coding with simple template naming conventions. Carrington Build is our advanced layout system. I think in the future you’ll see us refer to the Carrington Platform, which includes Carrington Build and Carrington Core (the template engine). Hopefully that will make it easier to understand going forward. We have a bit of clean-up to do in order to reinforce this naming change in a bunch of places.
\n
How is Carrington Build different/better than Product X?
\n
I’ve been really surprised at how many people have emailed and asked this, and then been upset when I don’t want to engage in this discussion. I have no desire to disparage other products and I know my product much better than others so I’m really too biased anyway. I’d rather let other folks make those types of comparisons.
\n
Anything else?
\n
Lots of stuff, but this post is already way too long – we’ll save the rest for later. Thanks for reading.
The biggest after-effect of the Thesis license violation episode seems to be raising people’s awareness of alternatives that are both fully GPL and have better functionally too. One theme that seems to be picking up a ton of new users is Genesis. We helped Laughing Squid and Paul Stamatiou make the switch, but Chris Brogan joined the party completely independently. (All formerly in the Thesis showcase. Scobleizer switched a while back.) I’m excited about this because I think Genesis is a better theme, particularly for its advanced support of WordPress functionality like child themes. (Child themes are the only way you should build your site on top of a framework.)
\n
Even though Thesis has done the bare minimum not to be sued for its license violation and the code it copy/pasted from WordPress, lots of folks including myself still have a bad taste in their mouths from the episode, since there was no apology or contrition shown (like a donation to the WordPress Foundation, which would be a drop in the bucket compared to the millions Thesis made while breaking the GPL). But I think it’s best to focus on the positive.
\n
There is a linkbait from a Thesis affiliate going around asking if I favor certain commercial themes — absolutely yes! Is that a controversial question? Themes WordPress lists on its commercial page go above and beyond bare compliance with the GPL and are full members of the community, sometimes even becoming active in core development like WooThemes has done. As a business, I would feel a lot more comfortable building my online presence on a real enterprise like Woo, StudioPress, iThemes, and many more rather than a one-man-against-the-world operation, regardless of how good its marketing is, or how many affiliates it has.
\n
For Automattic’s part, our theme team has been taking the opportunity to update our blogs stuck on Cutline and Pressrow, which were abandoned by Chris years ago and don’t support any of WordPress’s new features. The first iteration of this is Coraline which is aesthetically is similar to Cutline but under the hood is way better, with multiple layout and sidebar options, color schemes, custom background, per-post custom headers, gallery and asides support, and a few other bonuses. (Unfortunately, the switch had a bug that broke widgets for some sites, but that’s being fixed. We’ll avoid that when switching Pressrow.) A lot of this was kicked off before DIYThemes dodged litigation, but it’s important to continue because we’re building better themes for users who honestly shouldn’t worry about this stuff, they should just have theme that’s current, flexible, functional, and beautiful.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:52:22 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3510:\"
The biggest after-effect of the Thesis license violation episode seems to be raising people’s awareness of alternatives that are both fully GPL and have better functionally too. One theme that seems to be picking up a ton of new users is Genesis. We helped Laughing Squid and Paul Stamatiou make the switch, but Chris Brogan joined the party completely independently. (All formerly in the Thesis showcase. Scobleizer switched a while back.) I’m excited about this because I think Genesis is a better theme, particularly for its advanced support of WordPress functionality like child themes. (Child themes are the only way you should build your site on top of a framework.)
\n
Even though Thesis has done the bare minimum not to be sued for its license violation and the code it copy/pasted from WordPress, lots of folks including myself still have a bad taste in their mouths from the episode, since there was no apology or contrition shown (like a donation to the WordPress Foundation, which would be a drop in the bucket compared to the millions Thesis made while breaking the GPL). But I think it’s best to focus on the positive.
\n
There is a linkbait from a Thesis affiliate going around asking if I favor certain commercial themes — absolutely yes! Is that a controversial question? Themes WordPress lists on its commercial page go above and beyond bare compliance with the GPL and are full members of the community, sometimes even becoming active in core development like WooThemes has done. As a business, I would feel a lot more comfortable building my online presence on a real enterprise like Woo, StudioPress, iThemes, and many more rather than a one-man-against-the-world operation, regardless of how good its marketing is, or how many affiliates it has.
\n
For Automattic’s part, our theme team has been taking the opportunity to update our blogs stuck on Cutline and Pressrow, which were abandoned by Chris years ago and don’t support any of WordPress’s new features. The first iteration of this is Coraline which is aesthetically is similar to Cutline but under the hood is way better, with multiple layout and sidebar options, color schemes, custom background, per-post custom headers, gallery and asides support, and a few other bonuses. (Unfortunately, the switch had a bug that broke widgets for some sites, but that’s being fixed. We’ll avoid that when switching Pressrow.) A lot of this was kicked off before DIYThemes dodged litigation, but it’s important to continue because we’re building better themes for users who honestly shouldn’t worry about this stuff, they should just have theme that’s current, flexible, functional, and beautiful.
\";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Mobile App Teams on Twitter\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8358\";s:4:\"link\";s:91:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/11/wordpress-mobile-app-teams-on-twitter/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1064:\"
Are you gripping the edge of your seat in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress mobile app releases? Do you have an insatiable desire to follow the development teams’ every move? Well, you’re in luck!
\n
The WordPress mobile app teams will be sharing the latest news, status updates, beta team instructions, and random quips in 140 characters or less via Twitter. Follow the Android team, the BlackBerry team, the iOS team, all three, or maybe just two. Even if you don’t have a Twitter account, you can use Twitter’s new Fast Follow feature to have the latest news from the mobile app teams sent straight to your phone (standard text messaging rates apply).
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:00:29 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1064:\"
Are you gripping the edge of your seat in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress mobile app releases? Do you have an insatiable desire to follow the development teams’ every move? Well, you’re in luck!
\n
The WordPress mobile app teams will be sharing the latest news, status updates, beta team instructions, and random quips in 140 characters or less via Twitter. Follow the Android team, the BlackBerry team, the iOS team, all three, or maybe just two. Even if you don’t have a Twitter account, you can use Twitter’s new Fast Follow feature to have the latest news from the mobile app teams sent straight to your phone (standard text messaging rates apply).
\";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"WP Blackberry: WordPress for BlackBerry starts Twittering\";s:4:\"guid\";s:38:\"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/?p=356\";s:4:\"link\";s:86:\"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/08/10/wordpress-for-blackberry-starts-twittering/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1735:\"
You can now get the latest development news and status updates on WordPress for BlackBerry at twitter.com/WPBlackBerry. Follow us there!
\n
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:33:40 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:5:\"Isaac\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1735:\"
You can now get the latest development news and status updates on WordPress for BlackBerry at twitter.com/WPBlackBerry. Follow us there!
\n
\n \";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:48:\"WP Android: WordPress for Android now on Twitter\";s:4:\"guid\";s:35:\"http://android.wordpress.org/?p=292\";s:4:\"link\";s:77:\"http://android.wordpress.org/2010/08/10/wordpress-for-android-now-on-twitter/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1726:\"
A quick update to let everybody know that we’ll now be twittering at twitter.com/WPAndroid. Follow us for the latest updates regarding app development and other good stuff.
\n
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:08:04 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:5:\"Isaac\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1726:\"
A quick update to let everybody know that we’ll now be twittering at twitter.com/WPAndroid. Follow us for the latest updates regarding app development and other good stuff.
\n
\n \";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"WordPress Podcast: Interview with Matt Mullenweg – part 1\";s:4:\"guid\";s:30:\"http://wp-community.org/?p=683\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wordpresspodcast/~3/l9H8cmA0TCc/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1058:\"
Joost and Frederick interview the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, talking about loads of things. The entire interview was split in 2 because it was a bit lengthy, so you’ll hear part 2 next week.
\n
In this part we discussed the ’3.org’ project: fixing everything about WordPress that is not WordPress itself, so we discussed WordPress profiles (check Joost’s here) and how they want to integrate those with WordCamps and some of the new APIs that the team is developing and improving. We also touched on what happens / is going to happen to orphaned plugins.
\n
Then going on we discussed the Automattic product line, and where the focus of the 50+ people at Automattic is at the moment, WordCamps and even what’ll be (or might be) in WordPress 3.1, so go on, and have a listen now!
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:30:15 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:54:\"joost@pressthis.com (Joost de Valk & Frederick Townes)\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1058:\"
Joost and Frederick interview the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, talking about loads of things. The entire interview was split in 2 because it was a bit lengthy, so you’ll hear part 2 next week.
\n
In this part we discussed the ’3.org’ project: fixing everything about WordPress that is not WordPress itself, so we discussed WordPress profiles (check Joost’s here) and how they want to integrate those with WordCamps and some of the new APIs that the team is developing and improving. We also touched on what happens / is going to happen to orphaned plugins.
\n
Then going on we discussed the Automattic product line, and where the focus of the 50+ people at Automattic is at the moment, WordCamps and even what’ll be (or might be) in WordPress 3.1, so go on, and have a listen now!
\n\";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:45:\"Joseph: WordCamp Utah Keynote: Matt Mullenweg\";s:4:\"guid\";s:30:\"http://josephscott.org/?p=2734\";s:4:\"link\";s:77:\"http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/08/wordcamp-utah-keynote-matt-mullenweg/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1218:\"
patra mesigar is a clean and minimalist design, with ornamental header, 2 columns (fixed), right sidebar, lightweight, monochromatic, 125px ads ready, and a dropdown menu.
\n
\n
proClouds is a light and cloudy theme that is fast-loading and great looking. Features custom header, widgets and threaded comments.
\n
\n
Wallow is a multistyle theme. Use one of the four default styles or mix them to get your personal one.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:00:30 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1567:\"
patra mesigar is a clean and minimalist design, with ornamental header, 2 columns (fixed), right sidebar, lightweight, monochromatic, 125px ads ready, and a dropdown menu.
\n
\n
proClouds is a light and cloudy theme that is fast-loading and great looking. Features custom header, widgets and threaded comments.
\n
\n
Wallow is a multistyle theme. Use one of the four default styles or mix them to get your personal one.
\";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"BuddyPress: BuddyPress and bbPress – The Future\";s:4:\"guid\";s:29:\"http://buddypress.org/?p=1349\";s:4:\"link\";s:64:\"http://buddypress.org/2010/08/buddypress-and-bbpress-the-future/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2863:\"
If you haven’t heard the word, there is a fury of activity going on at this very moment in the WordPress community. For the first time in over 8 years, the core development team is not working on the next version of WordPress, but rather on an initiative that’s been dubbed “3.org.”
\n
3.org is a very appropriately named project that is focused on building and polishing the surrounding elements of WordPress rather than on WordPress itself. Part of this initiative is the conversion of bbPress from a standalone platform into a neat little WordPress plugin. I’ve volunteered to lead that initiative, and wanted to take a moment to explain what that means for BuddyPress, bbPress, and what you can expect for the next few months.
\n
Since BuddyPress 1.1, bbPress has come bundled in the package to help make the installation as smooth and easy as possible. Through a little bit of massaging we successfully integrated bbPress into a dedicated forum component to allow for group discussion, and we included a central discussion directory to help put all of these topics in one easy place. All of these ideas were great on paper but have had mixed feedback and results in practice. Making bbPress a standalone plugin will help allow for more customizable installations which is great news for anyone that’s currently using BuddyPress for the forum component, or has been holding off because of the complexity of it all.
\n
Our goal with me giving some attention to the bbPress plugin project is to keep it tightly integrated with BuddyPress, but have them act totally independently or alone if necessary. This means in a future version of BuddyPress, bbPress will no longer come packaged in the download, and both plugins will be aware of each other being activated. When that happens, additional features will be available to you to help create the kind of community that you’d like to have, instead of forcing forums to be tucked away into BuddyPress discussion groups.
\n
The end result will be two plugins working harmoniously together, to easily enable setups where bbPress forums can be created for any other kind of object, component, or plugin. This is particularly awesome for BuddyPress developers because it will allow them to internally extend bbPress to fit the specific needs of their own custom BuddyPress components as they see fit.
\n
With all this going on, the loose expectation is for BuddyPress 1.2.6 to roll out asap with a few bug fixes and maybe even a small new enhancement or two, with 1.3 to follow by the end of the year. bbPress 1.2 (the plugin) should be stable enough to start testing as soon as September 15 (give or take a few days and/or missing features) with a full release due around the same time as BuddyPress 1.3.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:28:17 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:17:\"John James Jacoby\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2863:\"
If you haven’t heard the word, there is a fury of activity going on at this very moment in the WordPress community. For the first time in over 8 years, the core development team is not working on the next version of WordPress, but rather on an initiative that’s been dubbed “3.org.”
\n
3.org is a very appropriately named project that is focused on building and polishing the surrounding elements of WordPress rather than on WordPress itself. Part of this initiative is the conversion of bbPress from a standalone platform into a neat little WordPress plugin. I’ve volunteered to lead that initiative, and wanted to take a moment to explain what that means for BuddyPress, bbPress, and what you can expect for the next few months.
\n
Since BuddyPress 1.1, bbPress has come bundled in the package to help make the installation as smooth and easy as possible. Through a little bit of massaging we successfully integrated bbPress into a dedicated forum component to allow for group discussion, and we included a central discussion directory to help put all of these topics in one easy place. All of these ideas were great on paper but have had mixed feedback and results in practice. Making bbPress a standalone plugin will help allow for more customizable installations which is great news for anyone that’s currently using BuddyPress for the forum component, or has been holding off because of the complexity of it all.
\n
Our goal with me giving some attention to the bbPress plugin project is to keep it tightly integrated with BuddyPress, but have them act totally independently or alone if necessary. This means in a future version of BuddyPress, bbPress will no longer come packaged in the download, and both plugins will be aware of each other being activated. When that happens, additional features will be available to you to help create the kind of community that you’d like to have, instead of forcing forums to be tucked away into BuddyPress discussion groups.
\n
The end result will be two plugins working harmoniously together, to easily enable setups where bbPress forums can be created for any other kind of object, component, or plugin. This is particularly awesome for BuddyPress developers because it will allow them to internally extend bbPress to fit the specific needs of their own custom BuddyPress components as they see fit.
\n
With all this going on, the loose expectation is for BuddyPress 1.2.6 to roll out asap with a few bug fixes and maybe even a small new enhancement or two, with 1.3 to follow by the end of the year. bbPress 1.2 (the plugin) should be stable enough to start testing as soon as September 15 (give or take a few days and/or missing features) with a full release due around the same time as BuddyPress 1.3.
\";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:35:\"Matt: Acceleration of Addictiveness\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=35218\";s:4:\"link\";s:51:\"http://ma.tt/2010/08/acceleration-of-addictiveness/\";s:11:\"description\";s:447:\"
People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:14:42 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:447:\"
People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.
\";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:65:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Mobile App Teams Seek Feedback\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8349\";s:4:\"link\";s:94:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/09/wordpress-mobile-app-teams-seek-feedback/\";s:11:\"description\";s:903:\"
The development teams behind the WordPress apps for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS are seeking feedback for their upcoming releases.
\n
The blog posts linked to above include instructions on how to contribute to each mobile app. All three mobile app teams are looking for feedback on the current release and beta testers for future releases.
\n
As a user of the WordPress app on my iPhone, I can attest that the app has grown tremendously in its usefulness since it premiered, mostly due to comments from users like us. Let’s do whatever we can to help the mobile app teams make these upcoming releases the best yet!
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:00:30 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:903:\"
The development teams behind the WordPress apps for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS are seeking feedback for their upcoming releases.
\n
The blog posts linked to above include instructions on how to contribute to each mobile app. All three mobile app teams are looking for feedback on the current release and beta testers for future releases.
\n
As a user of the WordPress app on my iPhone, I can attest that the app has grown tremendously in its usefulness since it premiered, mostly due to comments from users like us. Let’s do whatever we can to help the mobile app teams make these upcoming releases the best yet!
\";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Matt: Multiple Google Accounts\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=35216\";s:4:\"link\";s:46:\"http://ma.tt/2010/08/multiple-google-accounts/\";s:11:\"description\";s:663:\"
The ability to access two Gmail accounts at once in the same browser is my favorite feature that Google has added in a long time, even though I don’t use Gmail. I have some accounts I basically use for archival and search that I always end up having to open a different browser to access. Unfortunately, this feature breaks the already-fragile GV Mobile on my jailbroken iPhone 4. The two things I miss from Android are Google Voice integration, and the Navigation feature.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:10:16 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Matt\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:663:\"
The ability to access two Gmail accounts at once in the same browser is my favorite feature that Google has added in a long time, even though I don’t use Gmail. I have some accounts I basically use for archival and search that I always end up having to open a different browser to access. Unfortunately, this feature breaks the already-fragile GV Mobile on my jailbroken iPhone 4. The two things I miss from Android are Google Voice integration, and the Navigation feature.
\";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/08\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8345\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/08/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0808-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:4549:\"
New plugins
\n
123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert a chat room to your sidebar.
\n
LinkXL enables you to monetize your blog, automatically. Once you install the plugin, we handle the rest! LinkXL has relationships with digital agencies, large corporations and other link building companies who are looking for high-quality and relevant ads for their clients’ goods and services.
\n
My Foursquare makes it easy to show off your Foursquare badges and mayorships on your WordPress blog. It shows up as a widget in your WordPress sidebar. You can customize the widget to display your badges, mayorships, last checkin venue, and a map of your last checkin.
\n
Updated plugins
\n
DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. With DukaPress you can quickly and easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be used to sell digital or physical goods to customers all over the world.
\n
eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.
\n
Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics.
\n
HTML5 Player Plugin for WordPress allows bloggers to embed video and audio using the respective HTML 5 tags with Flowplayer as fallback, for example if a web browser doesn’t render HTML 5 video or audio, it will use Flowplayer (Flash) for that web browser.
\n
Photo Galleria is an elegant photo slideshow plugin for WordPress that comes with three designs: Classic, Dots, Lightbox. The Photo Galleria plugin filters the default WordPress gallery shortcode and replaces it with an elegant jQuery-powered gallery.
\n
SEO Ultimate gives you control over title tags, noindex/nofollow, meta tags, rich snippets, slugs, canonical tags, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and much more.
\n
WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. Tables can contain any type of data and additional JavaScript libraries can be used to extend it with features like sorting, pagination, filtering, and more.
\n
WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm mobile devices.
\n
Installer Links?
\n
Ten days ago, I asked if we should consider using the new plugin installer tool in future plugin digests. The poll is now closed and the final tally is 63.24% (86 votes) in favor of the convenient installer links, 15.44% (21 votes) against, and 21.32% (29 votes) don’t mind either way.
\n
Though the poll was largely in favor of the installer links, I’ve decided to postpone my usage of them until a later date due to a valid concern over a third-party site (us) linking directly to an installer. I believe that this issue is further complicated by the fact that the plugin installer tool is currently hosted at Mark Jaquith’s coveredwebservices.com. Therefore, I plan to revisit this particular question when the plugin installer tool has been moved to WordPress.org later this year.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:00:17 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4549:\"
New plugins
\n
123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert a chat room to your sidebar.
\n
LinkXL enables you to monetize your blog, automatically. Once you install the plugin, we handle the rest! LinkXL has relationships with digital agencies, large corporations and other link building companies who are looking for high-quality and relevant ads for their clients’ goods and services.
\n
My Foursquare makes it easy to show off your Foursquare badges and mayorships on your WordPress blog. It shows up as a widget in your WordPress sidebar. You can customize the widget to display your badges, mayorships, last checkin venue, and a map of your last checkin.
\n
Updated plugins
\n
DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. With DukaPress you can quickly and easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be used to sell digital or physical goods to customers all over the world.
\n
eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.
\n
Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics.
\n
HTML5 Player Plugin for WordPress allows bloggers to embed video and audio using the respective HTML 5 tags with Flowplayer as fallback, for example if a web browser doesn’t render HTML 5 video or audio, it will use Flowplayer (Flash) for that web browser.
\n
Photo Galleria is an elegant photo slideshow plugin for WordPress that comes with three designs: Classic, Dots, Lightbox. The Photo Galleria plugin filters the default WordPress gallery shortcode and replaces it with an elegant jQuery-powered gallery.
\n
SEO Ultimate gives you control over title tags, noindex/nofollow, meta tags, rich snippets, slugs, canonical tags, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and much more.
\n
WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. Tables can contain any type of data and additional JavaScript libraries can be used to extend it with features like sorting, pagination, filtering, and more.
\n
WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm mobile devices.
\n
Installer Links?
\n
Ten days ago, I asked if we should consider using the new plugin installer tool in future plugin digests. The poll is now closed and the final tally is 63.24% (86 votes) in favor of the convenient installer links, 15.44% (21 votes) against, and 21.32% (29 votes) don’t mind either way.
\n
Though the poll was largely in favor of the installer links, I’ve decided to postpone my usage of them until a later date due to a valid concern over a third-party site (us) linking directly to an installer. I believe that this issue is further complicated by the fact that the plugin installer tool is currently hosted at Mark Jaquith’s coveredwebservices.com. Therefore, I plan to revisit this particular question when the plugin installer tool has been moved to WordPress.org later this year.
\";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:68:\"Weblog Tools Collection: What’s Next for WordPress with Jane Wells\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8335\";s:4:\"link\";s:94:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/07/whats-next-for-wordpress-with-jane-wells/\";s:11:\"description\";s:851:\"
Automattic’s “Master of Suggestion,” Jane Wells, had a chance to speak at WordCamp Boulder 2010. Her session, What’s Next for WordPress, covers the new features in WordPress 3.0, the future of WordPress, and a few additional topics thanks to questions from audience members. The entire session makes for a very educational weekend view.
\n
I’m sure that you’ve read a lot about WordPress 3.0 and the future of WordPress by now, but there’s just something about this particular format that I’ve always found to be more informative. Enjoy!
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:00:37 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:851:\"
Automattic’s “Master of Suggestion,” Jane Wells, had a chance to speak at WordCamp Boulder 2010. Her session, What’s Next for WordPress, covers the new features in WordPress 3.0, the future of WordPress, and a few additional topics thanks to questions from audience members. The entire session makes for a very educational weekend view.
\n
I’m sure that you’ve read a lot about WordPress 3.0 and the future of WordPress by now, but there’s just something about this particular format that I’ve always found to be more informative. Enjoy!
\n\";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"WP iPhone: Join the Beta Team!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:31:\"http://ios.wordpress.org/?p=745\";s:4:\"link\";s:55:\"http://ios.wordpress.org/2010/08/06/join-the-beta-team/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3451:\"
Great news: We’re putting the finishing touches on the 2.6 release of WordPress for iOS! As if that wasn’t exciting enough, we’ve got even more good news.
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First, we’re creating our own Beta Team for the WordPress for iOS project. Members of the Beta Team will be able to test releases before we submit them to the App Store and report back on their experiences. This will help us catch and fix bugs proactively, rather than having to publish bugfix releases after the fact.
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We need 30 iPhone/iPod Touch users and 30 iPad users. We’ve got a couple of rules:
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You’ll need a WordPress.com account. We’ll be using a private WordPress.com blog to send you beta builds of the app.
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Only one device per person, so if you have both an iPhone/iPod Touch and an iPad, please only sign up with one or the other.
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We’ll need you to commit to participating as a beta user for an entire year, because Apple limits the number of devices you use for testing on a yearly basis.
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We can’t change your device if you get a new one, so you’ll be stuck testing on the device you sign up with.
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Most importantly, we really need you to use Trac to report any bugs or issues you happen to find.
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If you’re interested in joining the Beta Team, just leave a comment on this post with the word “iPhone” or “iPad” and we’ll take the first 30 of each and add you to the Beta Team.
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The other great news is that we’re starting a bugfix sprint! We’re going to try to resolve as many Trac tickets as we possibly can. So even if you’re not interested in joining the Beta Team, you can still help us out by submitting a new ticket here:
And just in time for Follow Friday, we’ve created a Twitter account for the project so we can stay better connected with our users. You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/wordpressios. Help us spread the word!
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That’s it for now. We’re almost ready to publish the 2.6 release, so thanks again for being so patient!
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:46:10 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Chris Boyd\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3451:\"
Great news: We’re putting the finishing touches on the 2.6 release of WordPress for iOS! As if that wasn’t exciting enough, we’ve got even more good news.
\n
First, we’re creating our own Beta Team for the WordPress for iOS project. Members of the Beta Team will be able to test releases before we submit them to the App Store and report back on their experiences. This will help us catch and fix bugs proactively, rather than having to publish bugfix releases after the fact.
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We need 30 iPhone/iPod Touch users and 30 iPad users. We’ve got a couple of rules:
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You’ll need a WordPress.com account. We’ll be using a private WordPress.com blog to send you beta builds of the app.
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Only one device per person, so if you have both an iPhone/iPod Touch and an iPad, please only sign up with one or the other.
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We’ll need you to commit to participating as a beta user for an entire year, because Apple limits the number of devices you use for testing on a yearly basis.
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We can’t change your device if you get a new one, so you’ll be stuck testing on the device you sign up with.
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Most importantly, we really need you to use Trac to report any bugs or issues you happen to find.
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If you’re interested in joining the Beta Team, just leave a comment on this post with the word “iPhone” or “iPad” and we’ll take the first 30 of each and add you to the Beta Team.
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The other great news is that we’re starting a bugfix sprint! We’re going to try to resolve as many Trac tickets as we possibly can. So even if you’re not interested in joining the Beta Team, you can still help us out by submitting a new ticket here:
And just in time for Follow Friday, we’ve created a Twitter account for the project so we can stay better connected with our users. You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/wordpressios. Help us spread the word!
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That’s it for now. We’re almost ready to publish the 2.6 release, so thanks again for being so patient!
\n \";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"WP Android: Help us test WordPress for Android!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:35:\"http://android.wordpress.org/?p=272\";s:4:\"link\";s:78:\"http://android.wordpress.org/2010/08/06/help-us-testing-wordpress-for-android/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2241:\"
As we’re getting ready to launch the next update to our Android app, we’d really love your feedback on bugs you’ve encountered and other oddities in general that you’ve seen when using WordPress for Android. If you’d like to go even further you could help out a lot by simply using the app a lot and trying different things, and then reporting anything weird that you might find.
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If you find a bug: submit a ticket at android.trac.wordpress.org, or write a detailed comment below explaining exactly what you did and what happened. There are also forums.
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For developers out there wanting to get involved, you can browse the source code and check out a copy of the app via SVN: http://android.svn.wordpress.org.
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We look forward to your feedback!
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:36:36 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:5:\"Isaac\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2241:\"
As we’re getting ready to launch the next update to our Android app, we’d really love your feedback on bugs you’ve encountered and other oddities in general that you’ve seen when using WordPress for Android. If you’d like to go even further you could help out a lot by simply using the app a lot and trying different things, and then reporting anything weird that you might find.
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If you find a bug: submit a ticket at android.trac.wordpress.org, or write a detailed comment below explaining exactly what you did and what happened. There are also forums.
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For developers out there wanting to get involved, you can browse the source code and check out a copy of the app via SVN: http://android.svn.wordpress.org.
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We look forward to your feedback!
\n \";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:64:\"WP Blackberry: We are looking forward to receiving your feedback\";s:4:\"guid\";s:38:\"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/?p=347\";s:4:\"link\";s:52:\"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/08/06/feedback/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2238:\"
Hi everyone! We’re getting ready for the next release of WordPress for Blackberry and we’re calling out to our dear users to report bugs or oddities that you’ve encountered in the past or while testing the app.
For developers out there wanting to get involved, you can browse the source code and check out a copy of the app via SVN: http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/.
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We look forward to your feedback, and definitely want to hear from you if you want to participate in this great project.
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:08:42 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Danilo\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2238:\"
Hi everyone! We’re getting ready for the next release of WordPress for Blackberry and we’re calling out to our dear users to report bugs or oddities that you’ve encountered in the past or while testing the app.
For developers out there wanting to get involved, you can browse the source code and check out a copy of the app via SVN: http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/.
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We look forward to your feedback, and definitely want to hear from you if you want to participate in this great project.
\n \";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"Mark Jaquith: APC Object Cache Backend for WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:39:\"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?p=519\";s:4:\"link\";s:83:\"http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/apc-object-cache-backend-for-wordpress/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3969:\"
I wrote the original APC Object Cache backend for WordPress back in 2006. Shared it via a link on the wp-hackers list, and until a few days ago, hadn’t touched it since.
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It has now been updated to version 2.0.1, and should work more efficiently. It supports increment/decrement, and you can now use it to power Batcache, the whole-page caching engine used on WordPress.com! In fact, for single-server sites, it should perform a lot better than Batcache + Memcached (because Memcached is a separate application and connections from PHP have some latency).
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If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read on.
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WordPress has a built-in object caching API. It is usually used to store complex data objects or HTML structures which are computationally expensive to create on the fly. By default, the engine is implemented in PHP memory. That means that objects don’t persist in-between requests. The only benefit there is if you’re accessing the same objects multiple times on one request.
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Enter persistent object cache backends. These backends store the data objects between page loads, which saves your server a lot of time and speeds up the user experience. APC is both an opcode cache (which speeds up PHP in general) and an in-memory key/value store which persists between page loads. If you have it installed (or can install it), I highly recommend that you do so. Unfortunately this probably won’t be available to anyone on shared hosting — VPS/dedicated only. Once you have APC up and running, as confirmed by phpinfo();, install the APC Object Cache in your WordPress content directory. It is a special kind of plugin, and will not work if placed anywhere else. It also needs to keep its name: object-cache.php
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You should notice improved page load times! I’ve seen it improve page generation time 10x.
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And what about Batcache? Batcache is a whole-page or “HTML output” caching engine. It stores complete web pages and saves them for later. It needs a persistent object cache backend to function. Furthermore, it needs an object cache backend that supports incrementation (counters, to measure how much traffic each URL is getting), and that does its own object expiration. Memcached has fit the bill, and is the preferred solution for multi-web-server WordPress installs. Now with the new version of the APC Object Cache, there is a preferred single server solution as well.
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Note: W3 Total Cache users need not apply — it handles its own object caching, including support for APC.
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:21:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:12:\"Mark Jaquith\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3969:\"
I wrote the original APC Object Cache backend for WordPress back in 2006. Shared it via a link on the wp-hackers list, and until a few days ago, hadn’t touched it since.
\n
It has now been updated to version 2.0.1, and should work more efficiently. It supports increment/decrement, and you can now use it to power Batcache, the whole-page caching engine used on WordPress.com! In fact, for single-server sites, it should perform a lot better than Batcache + Memcached (because Memcached is a separate application and connections from PHP have some latency).
\n
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read on.
\n
WordPress has a built-in object caching API. It is usually used to store complex data objects or HTML structures which are computationally expensive to create on the fly. By default, the engine is implemented in PHP memory. That means that objects don’t persist in-between requests. The only benefit there is if you’re accessing the same objects multiple times on one request.
\n
Enter persistent object cache backends. These backends store the data objects between page loads, which saves your server a lot of time and speeds up the user experience. APC is both an opcode cache (which speeds up PHP in general) and an in-memory key/value store which persists between page loads. If you have it installed (or can install it), I highly recommend that you do so. Unfortunately this probably won’t be available to anyone on shared hosting — VPS/dedicated only. Once you have APC up and running, as confirmed by phpinfo();, install the APC Object Cache in your WordPress content directory. It is a special kind of plugin, and will not work if placed anywhere else. It also needs to keep its name: object-cache.php
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You should notice improved page load times! I’ve seen it improve page generation time 10x.
\n
And what about Batcache? Batcache is a whole-page or “HTML output” caching engine. It stores complete web pages and saves them for later. It needs a persistent object cache backend to function. Furthermore, it needs an object cache backend that supports incrementation (counters, to measure how much traffic each URL is getting), and that does its own object expiration. Memcached has fit the bill, and is the preferred solution for multi-web-server WordPress installs. Now with the new version of the APC Object Cache, there is a preferred single server solution as well.
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Note: W3 Total Cache users need not apply — it handles its own object caching, including support for APC.
\n \";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 08/06\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8328\";s:4:\"link\";s:89:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/06/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0806-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2269:\"
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The AppleZoom WordPress 3.0 Theme comes with 8 Widget Areas and a Mac look. Four of the sidebars are adsense optimized, the big horizontal bar in the footer can hold up to four widgets, and you can put HTML or a banner at the very bottom of the theme.
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Cloistered works either as a stand-alone or a framework and is heavily based on the new WordPress default theme Twenty Ten by the WordPress Team. This theme is two-columns fixed-width, with support for a custom-header, custom-background, threaded-comments, sticky-post, and microformats. Featuring a Full-Width No Sidebars page template. There is an options page for setting the background color and header image.
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Freshblog is a free, clean, elegant, and flexible blog/magazine WordPress theme.
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TemPuteh is an elegant free WordPress theme, perfect for your personal blog. The theme package comes with 2 different color schemes, 1 custom flickr widget, tabbed sidebar for popular posts, recent posts, and recent comments, and more customization options in the theme options page.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:00:37 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2269:\"
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The AppleZoom WordPress 3.0 Theme comes with 8 Widget Areas and a Mac look. Four of the sidebars are adsense optimized, the big horizontal bar in the footer can hold up to four widgets, and you can put HTML or a banner at the very bottom of the theme.
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Cloistered works either as a stand-alone or a framework and is heavily based on the new WordPress default theme Twenty Ten by the WordPress Team. This theme is two-columns fixed-width, with support for a custom-header, custom-background, threaded-comments, sticky-post, and microformats. Featuring a Full-Width No Sidebars page template. There is an options page for setting the background color and header image.
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Freshblog is a free, clean, elegant, and flexible blog/magazine WordPress theme.
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TemPuteh is an elegant free WordPress theme, perfect for your personal blog. The theme package comes with 2 different color schemes, 1 custom flickr widget, tabbed sidebar for popular posts, recent posts, and recent comments, and more customization options in the theme options page.
\";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"WordPress.tv: Alex King and Shawn Parker: Live Widget Building\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4221\";s:4:\"link\";s:75:\"http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/10/king-parker-live-wordpress-widget-boulder10/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1831:\"
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:00:07 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Ryan Markel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1831:\"
The reaction to yesterday’s launch of Carrington Build has been overwhelming. We knew we had created something we were proud of, but it’s extremely gratifying to see so many other people excited about it as well.
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My post yesterday was pretty long and really only scratched the surface. For example, I didn’t go into details on our pricing structure. Naturally, that is the area where I’ve seen the most questions and confusion, so I’m hoping to clear it up here. We’ll have an official FAQ added to the Crowd Favorite website shortly as well.
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We spent quite a bit of time thinking about how best to deliver Carrington Build to the community, and we settled on the following packages to satisfy the following general target audiences:
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Carrington Business theme (for End Users) = $149 This is for bloggers, companies running business sites on WordPress, hobbiests, developers that want to implement for their personal sites, etc. – most people fall into this category. The Carrington Business theme is a fantastic theme that works right out of the box for business sites, and includes Carrington Build to create rich, flexible pages. It supports child themes (it actually includes an example child theme) for easy customization. It also includes documentation, upgrades, usage support and monitored customer forum access for 1 year. I expect there will be many more commercial Carrington Build themes (from us and others) available soon. You can purchase the Carrington Business theme in our store.
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Carrington Build Developer Edition (Single Site) = $499 This is for developers and consultants who are working on paid client projects. The expectation is that this cost will be passed along as part of the project cost – many WordPress professionals fall into this category. This amount is less than 1 day’s development at typical rates and is a unthinkable bargain for the end client (compared to the cost of creating multiple custom page templates, not to mention custom development of a system like Build). This is the edition to purchase if you are going to be making money by implementing Build in a website. It also includes developer documentation, upgrades, implementation support and monitored developer forum access for 1 year. You can purchase the Developer Edition in our store.
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Carrington Build Royalty Edition = $15 or 10%/sale This is for commercial theme and plugin developers who wish to include Carrington Build in their commercial offerings. There are no up-front costs, you simply pay the greater of $15 or 10% of the theme sticker price for each sale. When your themes and plugins do well, we both win. We support our royalty edition partners in our developer forums to make sure their integrations and offerings are the best they can be. Please contact us if you are interested in exploring this relationship.
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Hopefully this helps clarify the pricing structure for Carrington Build and the Carrington Business theme. Asmanypeoplehavekindlyremarked, Carrington Build isn’t a typical WordPress plugin or theme. It’s a system that took years of experience to define and took over a year to create. I believe it’s one of the biggest projects for WordPress, period. As you can imagine, we have a significant financial investment in it. I believe we have priced Carrington Build fairly, and hope that it is embraced and adopted by the WordPress end user and developer communities alike.
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I’m collecting questions to answer in a follow-up Q&A post about Carrington Build. If there is something you’d like to know that I haven’t gotten to yet, let me know (or hit me on Twitter).
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:18:59 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:4813:\"
The reaction to yesterday’s launch of Carrington Build has been overwhelming. We knew we had created something we were proud of, but it’s extremely gratifying to see so many other people excited about it as well.
\n
My post yesterday was pretty long and really only scratched the surface. For example, I didn’t go into details on our pricing structure. Naturally, that is the area where I’ve seen the most questions and confusion, so I’m hoping to clear it up here. We’ll have an official FAQ added to the Crowd Favorite website shortly as well.
\n
We spent quite a bit of time thinking about how best to deliver Carrington Build to the community, and we settled on the following packages to satisfy the following general target audiences:
\n\n
Carrington Business theme (for End Users) = $149 This is for bloggers, companies running business sites on WordPress, hobbiests, developers that want to implement for their personal sites, etc. – most people fall into this category. The Carrington Business theme is a fantastic theme that works right out of the box for business sites, and includes Carrington Build to create rich, flexible pages. It supports child themes (it actually includes an example child theme) for easy customization. It also includes documentation, upgrades, usage support and monitored customer forum access for 1 year. I expect there will be many more commercial Carrington Build themes (from us and others) available soon. You can purchase the Carrington Business theme in our store.
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Carrington Build Developer Edition (Single Site) = $499 This is for developers and consultants who are working on paid client projects. The expectation is that this cost will be passed along as part of the project cost – many WordPress professionals fall into this category. This amount is less than 1 day’s development at typical rates and is a unthinkable bargain for the end client (compared to the cost of creating multiple custom page templates, not to mention custom development of a system like Build). This is the edition to purchase if you are going to be making money by implementing Build in a website. It also includes developer documentation, upgrades, implementation support and monitored developer forum access for 1 year. You can purchase the Developer Edition in our store.
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Carrington Build Royalty Edition = $15 or 10%/sale This is for commercial theme and plugin developers who wish to include Carrington Build in their commercial offerings. There are no up-front costs, you simply pay the greater of $15 or 10% of the theme sticker price for each sale. When your themes and plugins do well, we both win. We support our royalty edition partners in our developer forums to make sure their integrations and offerings are the best they can be. Please contact us if you are interested in exploring this relationship.
\n\n
Hopefully this helps clarify the pricing structure for Carrington Build and the Carrington Business theme. Asmanypeoplehavekindlyremarked, Carrington Build isn’t a typical WordPress plugin or theme. It’s a system that took years of experience to define and took over a year to create. I believe it’s one of the biggest projects for WordPress, period. As you can imagine, we have a significant financial investment in it. I believe we have priced Carrington Build fairly, and hope that it is embraced and adopted by the WordPress end user and developer communities alike.
\n
I’m collecting questions to answer in a follow-up Q&A post about Carrington Build. If there is something you’d like to know that I haven’t gotten to yet, let me know (or hit me on Twitter).
\n\";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:72:\"WordPress.tv: Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy: Caching in WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4215\";s:4:\"link\";s:78:\"http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/10/scott-oshaughnessy-caching-wordpress-boulder10/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1821:\"
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:30:09 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Ryan Markel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1821:\"
Over the last few years I’ve loved building a team and creating great things for our clients, but I’ve missed building products. A little more than a year ago, we started work on a system that I’ve had in the back of my mind for (quite literally) years. This work has resulted our first commercial WordPress products.
Carrington Build allows you to build rich, complex page layouts without any coding or editing of page templates. Sound too good to be true? Based on the response from our clients that are using it and the top WordPress developers I’ve demo’ed to – that’s exactly what we’ve created.
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Click the Build tab when creating a page and then you can add rows with different layout structures and add modules to those rows. All with the ease of drag-and-drop for editing and re-ordering. Real drag-and-drop page layouts, tightly integrated into WordPress!
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We’ve set up a demo site where you can experience the way Carrington Build works on both the front-end and the back-end. The demo is reset every hour, so go nuts and experiment. Don’t worry about breaking anything.
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Over the last year, our entire Crowd Favorite team has worked on Carrington Build. We’ve worked very hard to create not only a polished end result, but an elegantly architected and extensible system that we can mold as needed for real life implementations.
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Carrington Build has been tested and proven in a number of projects for our clients and for our own site. During that time we have conceptualized features, implemented them, revised them and refined them. We’ve taken the original working system we used in our first implementation and improved it month by month.
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say this is one of the biggest innovations we’ve seen for WordPress. Perhaps I’m most excited about how wide it opens the door to what developers can create; the power we can give our users.
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We believe that the approach we use in creating a working, sustainable CMS implementation for our clients works well as a best practice. As you might imagine, Carrington Build fits nicely into this approach.
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When we work with a client we consult with them to define requirements, then follow up with wireframes, hi-fi designs and finally implementation. Fairly typical. What isn’t as typical is the way we approach the wireframes and hi-fi designs.
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We work hard to distill the design down to re-usable building blocks. Once those are determined, we create a way to implement and leverage these building blocks as an extension of the CMS – in our case, within WordPress. We create a system that is totally maintainable by our client and give them the tools to extend their site as future needs dictate (with components that work elegantly together).
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Our approach: build CMS-driven sites by creating styled structure and elements that work elegantly together, then give our clients the tools to manage them. We want repeat business from our clients in the form of new feature development and implementation of new ideas, not for website content maintenance.
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As you can see here, our own website utilizes a small palette of styled content islands for callouts, calls to action, sidebar elements, etc. We distilled a larger list from a series of page comps, then consolidated down to what you see here.
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We’ve shipped Carrington Build with a collection of rich custom modules that comprise a nice set of these building blocks – with the ability to choose your desired module style treatment. You can drop in a hero area, an image, a featured post, the latest post with excerpt from a post type, category, tag or by a certain author… or a standard WordPress component like a shortcode, a widget, a sidebar or a menu.
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Here is a list of the modules that Carrington Build currently ships with:
We created Carrington Build on top of WordPress best practices. We have implemented everything using existing WordPress tables and standard hooks. While we store the custom module data structures in custom fields, each module implements an interface that returns a textual value. We take these values and put them together so that things like built-in search and excerpts can continue to work as expected. Many folks will never care (nor should they need to) about the elegance under the hood, but it’s that extra effort that creates a long-term viable and maintainable platform.
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Like the Carrington theme framework, Carrington Build is a 100% additive implementation. We augment existing WordPress functionality, we don’t replace it, subvert it or break it.
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Carrington Build Developer Edition (single site) is available for purchase and download for developers who want to integrate Build to a site for a client. We are also offering a royalty edition for theme developers that want to create new or augment existing commercial themes that integrate Carrington Build. If that’s you, get in touch and we can discuss details.
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Naturally, we’ve got a long list of future enhancements we are excited to add to Carrington Build in the near future, but after a year+ of development I thought people might appreciate it if we stopped long enough to put together a public release. I promise we’ll do more of this going forward.
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In order to showcase Carrington Build and provide an example of how to integrate it tightly into a theme, we’ve created the Carrington Business theme, which includes Carrington Build and is also available today for purchase and download.
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Since the Carrington Business theme introduces new, advanced features with the addition of Carrington Build, we wanted to make it as easy as possible for our customers to experiment and get comfortable with the features that are available to them. To do this, we have included a sample data file (WXR format) that can be imported and includes the data we have staged on the demo site. Simply import the sample data into a new WordPress installation and you have a populated sample site with great examples that you can edit to your heart’s content.
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The Carrington Business theme has a pragmatic implementation of forward-compatible HTML5 markup that is semantic, loads quickly and is SEO and human-friendly. It also includes a child theme with an alternate color scheme to provide a roadmap for creating your own custom child themes and custom colors.
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The Carrington Business theme is built on top of the Carrington theme framework for easy customization of views based on the data in your site. We’ve included a few examples of this like blog templates and the News custom post type and matching templates. There is support for menus with smart fallbacks when menus haven’t been created and miscellaneous features like a footer that supports widgets and a setting for showing a log in/log out link in the footer.
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The Carrington framework makes it easy for anyone to create customized, reactive structured views in a WordPress theme. Carrington Build adds the ability to create advanced drag-and-drop page layouts for unstructured data pages.
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As you can likely tell, I’m quite excited that we’ve finally gotten Carrington Build and the Carrington Business theme to market. I’m looking forward to seeing the creative ways that people use and integrate what we’ve built to create new websites and themes that allow people to use and customize WordPress on a whole new level.
\n\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:44:47 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:4:\"Alex\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:9523:\"
Over the last few years I’ve loved building a team and creating great things for our clients, but I’ve missed building products. A little more than a year ago, we started work on a system that I’ve had in the back of my mind for (quite literally) years. This work has resulted our first commercial WordPress products.
Carrington Build allows you to build rich, complex page layouts without any coding or editing of page templates. Sound too good to be true? Based on the response from our clients that are using it and the top WordPress developers I’ve demo’ed to – that’s exactly what we’ve created.
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Click the Build tab when creating a page and then you can add rows with different layout structures and add modules to those rows. All with the ease of drag-and-drop for editing and re-ordering. Real drag-and-drop page layouts, tightly integrated into WordPress!
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We’ve set up a demo site where you can experience the way Carrington Build works on both the front-end and the back-end. The demo is reset every hour, so go nuts and experiment. Don’t worry about breaking anything.
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Over the last year, our entire Crowd Favorite team has worked on Carrington Build. We’ve worked very hard to create not only a polished end result, but an elegantly architected and extensible system that we can mold as needed for real life implementations.
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Carrington Build has been tested and proven in a number of projects for our clients and for our own site. During that time we have conceptualized features, implemented them, revised them and refined them. We’ve taken the original working system we used in our first implementation and improved it month by month.
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say this is one of the biggest innovations we’ve seen for WordPress. Perhaps I’m most excited about how wide it opens the door to what developers can create; the power we can give our users.
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We believe that the approach we use in creating a working, sustainable CMS implementation for our clients works well as a best practice. As you might imagine, Carrington Build fits nicely into this approach.
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When we work with a client we consult with them to define requirements, then follow up with wireframes, hi-fi designs and finally implementation. Fairly typical. What isn’t as typical is the way we approach the wireframes and hi-fi designs.
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We work hard to distill the design down to re-usable building blocks. Once those are determined, we create a way to implement and leverage these building blocks as an extension of the CMS – in our case, within WordPress. We create a system that is totally maintainable by our client and give them the tools to extend their site as future needs dictate (with components that work elegantly together).
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Our approach: build CMS-driven sites by creating styled structure and elements that work elegantly together, then give our clients the tools to manage them. We want repeat business from our clients in the form of new feature development and implementation of new ideas, not for website content maintenance.
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As you can see here, our own website utilizes a small palette of styled content islands for callouts, calls to action, sidebar elements, etc. We distilled a larger list from a series of page comps, then consolidated down to what you see here.
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We’ve shipped Carrington Build with a collection of rich custom modules that comprise a nice set of these building blocks – with the ability to choose your desired module style treatment. You can drop in a hero area, an image, a featured post, the latest post with excerpt from a post type, category, tag or by a certain author… or a standard WordPress component like a shortcode, a widget, a sidebar or a menu.
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Here is a list of the modules that Carrington Build currently ships with:
We created Carrington Build on top of WordPress best practices. We have implemented everything using existing WordPress tables and standard hooks. While we store the custom module data structures in custom fields, each module implements an interface that returns a textual value. We take these values and put them together so that things like built-in search and excerpts can continue to work as expected. Many folks will never care (nor should they need to) about the elegance under the hood, but it’s that extra effort that creates a long-term viable and maintainable platform.
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Like the Carrington theme framework, Carrington Build is a 100% additive implementation. We augment existing WordPress functionality, we don’t replace it, subvert it or break it.
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Carrington Build Developer Edition (single site) is available for purchase and download for developers who want to integrate Build to a site for a client. We are also offering a royalty edition for theme developers that want to create new or augment existing commercial themes that integrate Carrington Build. If that’s you, get in touch and we can discuss details.
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Naturally, we’ve got a long list of future enhancements we are excited to add to Carrington Build in the near future, but after a year+ of development I thought people might appreciate it if we stopped long enough to put together a public release. I promise we’ll do more of this going forward.
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In order to showcase Carrington Build and provide an example of how to integrate it tightly into a theme, we’ve created the Carrington Business theme, which includes Carrington Build and is also available today for purchase and download.
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Since the Carrington Business theme introduces new, advanced features with the addition of Carrington Build, we wanted to make it as easy as possible for our customers to experiment and get comfortable with the features that are available to them. To do this, we have included a sample data file (WXR format) that can be imported and includes the data we have staged on the demo site. Simply import the sample data into a new WordPress installation and you have a populated sample site with great examples that you can edit to your heart’s content.
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The Carrington Business theme has a pragmatic implementation of forward-compatible HTML5 markup that is semantic, loads quickly and is SEO and human-friendly. It also includes a child theme with an alternate color scheme to provide a roadmap for creating your own custom child themes and custom colors.
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The Carrington Business theme is built on top of the Carrington theme framework for easy customization of views based on the data in your site. We’ve included a few examples of this like blog templates and the News custom post type and matching templates. There is support for menus with smart fallbacks when menus haven’t been created and miscellaneous features like a footer that supports widgets and a setting for showing a log in/log out link in the footer.
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The Carrington framework makes it easy for anyone to create customized, reactive structured views in a WordPress theme. Carrington Build adds the ability to create advanced drag-and-drop page layouts for unstructured data pages.
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As you can likely tell, I’m quite excited that we’ve finally gotten Carrington Build and the Carrington Business theme to market. I’m looking forward to seeing the creative ways that people use and integrate what we’ve built to create new websites and themes that allow people to use and customize WordPress on a whole new level.
\n\";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"WP Blackberry: WordPress for BlackBerry 1.4 Released\";s:4:\"guid\";s:38:\"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/?p=329\";s:4:\"link\";s:55:\"http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2010/08/03/release-1-4/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3192:\"
WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.4 has been released to BlackBerry App World. \nDepending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device you should now already see the latest version 1.4.
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The following features have been added in version 1.4:
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Easier sign in process
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Added support for HTTP authentication on password-protected self-hosted blogs
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Improved the app’s ability for bug reporting and feedback
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The file browser now remember the last opened folder
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This release contains many bug fixes, including:
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issue when modifying the properties of a picture attached to a post
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startup issue on the splash screen that causing the app freezing
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issue on the Stats view when a post title contains more double quote characters
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:41:44 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:6:\"Danilo\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:3192:\"
WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.4 has been released to BlackBerry App World. \nDepending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device you should now already see the latest version 1.4.
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The following features have been added in version 1.4:
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Easier sign in process
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Added support for HTTP authentication on password-protected self-hosted blogs
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Improved the app’s ability for bug reporting and feedback
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The file browser now remember the last opened folder
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This release contains many bug fixes, including:
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issue when modifying the properties of a picture attached to a post
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startup issue on the splash screen that causing the app freezing
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issue on the Stats view when a post title contains more double quote characters
Since our last update, we’ve spotted a number of implementations of Gravatar around the web that we think are pretty neat. Here are a couple of them:
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MailChimpnow supports Gravatar, loading them up as part of the member profile for any subscribers who belong to mailing lists you manage.
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Yoav emailed to let us know about Gravatar.NET, a package for .NET developers who want to make full use of the XML-RPC API to manage their images remotely. He is using his library on Ponderi.com, and has a tutorial about working with the XML-RPC API on his personal site.
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Rapportive is a very cool browser plugin that modifies your GMail screen so that you can see some information about the contacts you’re conversing with. It aggregates data from all over the place, including images and profile data from Gravatar.
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We’ve also heard a few whispers from folks who are playing with the new profile data and how that can be used in other applications as well — more on that in the future!
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We really love seeing Gravatar pop up in new and different ways, so if you’ve heard of or seen any others, please let us know in the comments.
\n \";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:08:08 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Beau Lebens\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:2932:\"
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Since our last update, we’ve spotted a number of implementations of Gravatar around the web that we think are pretty neat. Here are a couple of them:
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MailChimpnow supports Gravatar, loading them up as part of the member profile for any subscribers who belong to mailing lists you manage.
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Yoav emailed to let us know about Gravatar.NET, a package for .NET developers who want to make full use of the XML-RPC API to manage their images remotely. He is using his library on Ponderi.com, and has a tutorial about working with the XML-RPC API on his personal site.
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Rapportive is a very cool browser plugin that modifies your GMail screen so that you can see some information about the contacts you’re conversing with. It aggregates data from all over the place, including images and profile data from Gravatar.
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We’ve also heard a few whispers from folks who are playing with the new profile data and how that can be used in other applications as well — more on that in the future!
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We really love seeing Gravatar pop up in new and different ways, so if you’ve heard of or seen any others, please let us know in the comments.
\n \";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/03\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8321\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/03/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0803-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1959:\"
New plugins
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HTML5 Player Plugin for WordPress allows bloggers to embed video and audio using the respective HTML 5 tags with Flowplayer as fallback, for example if a web browser doesn’t render HTML 5 video or audio, it will use Flowplayer (Flash) for that web browser.
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IFRAME Embed For YouTube enables you to insert iframe code for a particular YouTube video on your WordPress blog. YouTube has recently released the IFRAME embed code for videos but still that code is not available on YouTube, forcing people to still use the OBJECT embed code for the flash player.
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Simple Portfolio allows you to manage your portfolio projects easily and use them everywhere you like. This plugin is very simple to use, though it’s very powerful.
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Updated plugins
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After the Deadline uses artificial intelligence to check spelling, style, and grammar in WordPress.
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eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.
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Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
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WP SlimStat is a simple but powerful web analytics plugin for WordPress. It doesn’t require any subscription to external statistic services: all metrics are kept on your local server, private and accessible to your eyes only.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:00:46 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"James Huff\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1959:\"
New plugins
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HTML5 Player Plugin for WordPress allows bloggers to embed video and audio using the respective HTML 5 tags with Flowplayer as fallback, for example if a web browser doesn’t render HTML 5 video or audio, it will use Flowplayer (Flash) for that web browser.
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IFRAME Embed For YouTube enables you to insert iframe code for a particular YouTube video on your WordPress blog. YouTube has recently released the IFRAME embed code for videos but still that code is not available on YouTube, forcing people to still use the OBJECT embed code for the flash player.
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Simple Portfolio allows you to manage your portfolio projects easily and use them everywhere you like. This plugin is very simple to use, though it’s very powerful.
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Updated plugins
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After the Deadline uses artificial intelligence to check spelling, style, and grammar in WordPress.
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eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.
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Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
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WP SlimStat is a simple but powerful web analytics plugin for WordPress. It doesn’t require any subscription to external statistic services: all metrics are kept on your local server, private and accessible to your eyes only.
\";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:46:\"WordPress.tv: Jeff Finkelstein: SEO Techniques\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4206\";s:4:\"link\";s:62:\"http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/10/jeff-finklestein-seo-boulder10/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1769:\"
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\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:45:06 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:11:\"Ryan Markel\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:1769:\"
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\";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:77:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8326\";s:4:\"link\";s:106:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/08/01/lessons-learned-from-maintaining-a-wordpress-plug-in/\";s:11:\"description\";s:637:\"
Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In: Joost de Valk’s list of seven lessons learned from writing and maintaining a WordPress plugin. I was nodding my head all the while I was reading through them. Some of these are applicable to the general WordPress plugin developer while others are more particular to the individual project that Joost was working on but almost all of them are good advice. All in all, I think this is a good read for both seasoned as well as newbie WordPress plugin developers.
\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:26:03 +0000\";s:2:\"dc\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";s:10:\"Mark Ghosh\";}s:7:\"summary\";s:637:\"
Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In: Joost de Valk’s list of seven lessons learned from writing and maintaining a WordPress plugin. I was nodding my head all the while I was reading through them. Some of these are applicable to the general WordPress plugin developer while others are more particular to the individual project that Joost was working on but almost all of them are good advice. All in all, I think this is a good read for both seasoned as well as newbie WordPress plugin developers.
\";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 07/31\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8315\";s:4:\"link\";s:89:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/31/wordpress-theme-releases-for-0731-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1893:\"
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Use 2010 Weaver to tweak almost everything with this Twenty Ten child theme, or pick one of many included predefined example themes. With minimal effort, you can easily customize: colors, fonts, the header, the footer, sidebars, background colors, or add your own custom CSS or javascript definitions.
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RedBel is a simple and stylish fixed width WordPress theme.
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Voidy is the perfect theme for great authors. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic two-columns theme with the widgets all arranged in the right sidebar. Voidy was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.
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Outline is a child theme of Hybrid framework that was designed exclusively to take advantage of the new WordPress 3.0 features such as nav menus and custom backgrounds.
Use 2010 Weaver to tweak almost everything with this Twenty Ten child theme, or pick one of many included predefined example themes. With minimal effort, you can easily customize: colors, fonts, the header, the footer, sidebars, background colors, or add your own custom CSS or javascript definitions.
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RedBel is a simple and stylish fixed width WordPress theme.
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Voidy is the perfect theme for great authors. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic two-columns theme with the widgets all arranged in the right sidebar. Voidy was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.
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Outline is a child theme of Hybrid framework that was designed exclusively to take advantage of the new WordPress 3.0 features such as nav menus and custom backgrounds.
\";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"WordPress.tv: Frederick Townes: Working Backwards\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4200\";s:4:\"link\";s:76:\"http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/15/frederick-townes-working-backwards-denmark10/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1778:\"
The upgrade should be available for most of you from your Dashboard. If you don’t see the announcement, go to Dashboard/Updates. If you encounter any trouble with the automated updater, try deactivating your plugins before reinitiating the update. As is accustomed with Murphy and his fabled law, a manual upgrade many be required, but it shouldn’t take too long.
The upgrade should be available for most of you from your Dashboard. If you don’t see the announcement, go to Dashboard/Updates. If you encounter any trouble with the automated updater, try deactivating your plugins before reinitiating the update. As is accustomed with Murphy and his fabled law, a manual upgrade many be required, but it shouldn’t take too long.
After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku:
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Three dot oh dot one \nBug fixes to make you smile \nUpdate your WordPress
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This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.
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Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
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Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to reinstall it, which you can do right from your Updates screen. Our bad.
After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku:
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Three dot oh dot one \nBug fixes to make you smile \nUpdate your WordPress
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This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.
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Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
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Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to reinstall it, which you can do right from your Updates screen. Our bad.
\";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:60:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/29\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8306\";s:4:\"link\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/29/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0729-2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2517:\"
New plugins
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FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts.
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DynamicWP Featured Post is a free WordPress jQuery plugin that will list your featured post based on the post tag and displayed as a widget. The post will cycled automatically.
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DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable.
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Add image_src Meta Tag ensures your content has a relevant thumbnail when shared on social sites, by adding an image_src meta tag to your header which contains your post thumbnail image.
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Updated plugins
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The AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
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The AddToAny: Subscribe Button helps people subscribe to your blog using any feed reader, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Netvibes, Windows Live, and all other RSS readers.
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Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics.
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Viper’s Video Quicktags allows you to simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed and much more.
FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts.
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DynamicWP Featured Post is a free WordPress jQuery plugin that will list your featured post based on the post tag and displayed as a widget. The post will cycled automatically.
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DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable.
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Add image_src Meta Tag ensures your content has a relevant thumbnail when shared on social sites, by adding an image_src meta tag to your header which contains your post thumbnail image.
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Updated plugins
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The AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
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The AddToAny: Subscribe Button helps people subscribe to your blog using any feed reader, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Netvibes, Windows Live, and all other RSS readers.
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Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics.
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Viper’s Video Quicktags allows you to simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed and much more.
\";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:16:\"Matt: New Kindle\";s:4:\"guid\";s:21:\"http://ma.tt/?p=35213\";s:4:\"link\";s:32:\"http://ma.tt/2010/07/new-kindle/\";s:11:\"description\";s:604:\"
There’s a new Kindle out, which I just ordered. I love the Kindle — even more than the iPhone 4. On my iPhone I do the same stuff I do on my computer, just mobile. The Kindle helps me to read and my life has been more enhanced by books than any other medium I’ve experienced. I’ve bought probably 10 since they came out for me, friends, and family, and sold 100+ to other people. (Before the Kindle came out I randomly got a demo of it from Jeff Bezos at the EG Conference, and it was love at first sight.)
There’s a new Kindle out, which I just ordered. I love the Kindle — even more than the iPhone 4. On my iPhone I do the same stuff I do on my computer, just mobile. The Kindle helps me to read and my life has been more enhanced by books than any other medium I’ve experienced. I’ve bought probably 10 since they came out for me, friends, and family, and sold 100+ to other people. (Before the Kindle came out I randomly got a demo of it from Jeff Bezos at the EG Conference, and it was love at first sight.)
I don’t usually make public feature requests and I know our friends at Twitter are dealing with crazy scaling issues but I would like to register one simple request: the option for centered backgrounds. Background: Twitter lets you upload a background image, but it’s always left-aligned which means unless its tiling interacts awkwardly with the main centered window. But with a single line of CSS, background-position: center, you could use the width of Twitter’s content window (763px) to create something beautiful and exciting that dovetailed perfectly with the main content area. If you’re feeling crazy afterward, allow a different background to be specified for single-tweet permalink pages, which would also make Blackbird Pies even tastier. If your name is Ev Williams, Biz Stone, Dick Costello, Ryan King, Kevin Cheng, Mark Trammell, Doug Bowman… pass this on to someone. (And help me verify the WordPress account.) I think a whole new Twitter design community could flourish. And I could forgive you for using a table for layout. Update:This is getting some nice pick-up.
I don’t usually make public feature requests and I know our friends at Twitter are dealing with crazy scaling issues but I would like to register one simple request: the option for centered backgrounds. Background: Twitter lets you upload a background image, but it’s always left-aligned which means unless its tiling interacts awkwardly with the main centered window. But with a single line of CSS, background-position: center, you could use the width of Twitter’s content window (763px) to create something beautiful and exciting that dovetailed perfectly with the main content area. If you’re feeling crazy afterward, allow a different background to be specified for single-tweet permalink pages, which would also make Blackbird Pies even tastier. If your name is Ev Williams, Biz Stone, Dick Costello, Ryan King, Kevin Cheng, Mark Trammell, Doug Bowman… pass this on to someone. (And help me verify the WordPress account.) I think a whole new Twitter design community could flourish. And I could forgive you for using a table for layout. Update:This is getting some nice pick-up.
\";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"WordPress.tv: Jane Wells: What’s Next for WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:27:\"http://wordpress.tv/?p=4191\";s:4:\"link\";s:69:\"http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/10/jane-wells-wordpress-future-boulder10/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1763:\"
\";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"Weblog Tools Collection: A New Way to Install Plugins\";s:4:\"guid\";s:40:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=8299\";s:4:\"link\";s:82:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/28/a-new-way-to-install-plugins/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1237:\"
There are two ways to install plugins in WordPress 3.0. You can either search for and install plugins via Plugins/Add New in your admin panel, or search for and download plugins from the plugin directory, then upload them to /wp-content/plugins/. Now, thanks to Mark Jaquith, there’s a new way to install plugins.
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The new plugin installer tool allows users to easily install plugins via a web-based interface outside of WordPress, with no FTP knowledge or tedious admin panel searching required. The new tool will be officially rolled into the plugin directory during WordPress’ impending site-wide redesign. For now, plugin developers can create a link directing users to the plugin installer tool and their plugin, and the rest of us can use the bookmarklet to install plugins from the directory.
There are two ways to install plugins in WordPress 3.0. You can either search for and install plugins via Plugins/Add New in your admin panel, or search for and download plugins from the plugin directory, then upload them to /wp-content/plugins/. Now, thanks to Mark Jaquith, there’s a new way to install plugins.
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The new plugin installer tool allows users to easily install plugins via a web-based interface outside of WordPress, with no FTP knowledge or tedious admin panel searching required. The new tool will be officially rolled into the plugin directory during WordPress’ impending site-wide redesign. For now, plugin developers can create a link directing users to the plugin installer tool and their plugin, and the rest of us can use the bookmarklet to install plugins from the directory.
\";}i:44;a:7:{s:5:\"title\";s:34:\"WP Android: Version 1.3.2 Released\";s:4:\"guid\";s:35:\"http://android.wordpress.org/?p=261\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://android.wordpress.org/2010/07/27/version-1-3-2-released/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2395:\"
Version 1.3.2 of WordPress for Android was released to Android Market this morning. This release contains many bug fixes, including:
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The Stats tab should work better for users with self-hosted blogs that are running the WordPress.com stats plugin.
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Stabilization fixes for users running HTC Sense on Android 1.5.
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Removed extra break and paragraph HTML tags that were being added when editing an existing post.
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On top of the bug fixes in this release, we also squeezed in a few features including an easier sign in process as well as a small UI update including better tab icons and a nice ‘WordPress Blue’ title bar. Thanks to Kahil Young for contributing to the UI update!
Version 1.3.2 of WordPress for Android was released to Android Market this morning. This release contains many bug fixes, including:
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The Stats tab should work better for users with self-hosted blogs that are running the WordPress.com stats plugin.
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Stabilization fixes for users running HTC Sense on Android 1.5.
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Removed extra break and paragraph HTML tags that were being added when editing an existing post.
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On top of the bug fixes in this release, we also squeezed in a few features including an easier sign in process as well as a small UI update including better tab icons and a nice ‘WordPress Blue’ title bar. Thanks to Kahil Young for contributing to the UI update!
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As a followup to my previous post, I’ve created a bookmarklet that you can use to install a WordPress plugin. While viewing a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory, click this bookmarklet, and you’ll be guided in installing that plugin on your site.
As a followup to my previous post, I’ve created a bookmarklet that you can use to install a WordPress plugin. While viewing a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory, click this bookmarklet, and you’ll be guided in installing that plugin on your site.
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Here’s a screencast showing it in action!
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