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WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco was a hit! The WordPress Scavenger Hunt fundraiser was great fun. WordPress hosts the US Government, as well as Britain. WordPress 2.6.1 released. The first WordPress Plugin API for a WordPress Plugin announced. Want to copy, cut, and paste in your iPhone with WordPress? How about a beautiful comment count chicklet added to your blog? Could be a new competition. How many comments do you have? Super Cache WordPress Plugin updated. WordCamp South Africa this weekend. WordPress News US Government Agencies Using WordPress: Attendees at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco were stunned when Matt put up a list of US Government agencies using WordPress for their blogs, CMS, and intrasite networks. Mark Jaquith has published the list which includes the US Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Goard, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of State, Department of Treasury, DEA, FBI, CIA, SNA, and more. Matt s point was that if they are using it, WordPress must be doing something write with security - especially with these security concious agencies helping the WordPress community. WordPress 2.6.1 Released: WordPress 2.6.1 has been released. They cleaned up the problems with the right-to-left languages and fixed over 60 things needing fixing. Ajay of Techtites has released a WordPress 2.6 to 2.6.1 Upgrade File to make the process of updating your blog easier. Ozh Offers the First WordPress Plugin API for the Admin Drop Down Menu WordPress Plugin: Planet Ozh updated the popular Admin Drop Down Menu WordPress Plugin with localization, fun icons, and an API that will allow others to hook into the Plugin with their Plugins. This is the first time a Plugin has had its own API that I know of. Think of the possibilities! Sticky Posts in the Future: Lester Chan reports that WordPress 2.7 will incorporate a simplified version of his popular WP-Sticky WordPress Plugin into the core of WordPress, allowing users to stick a post to the front page of their blog. Weblog Tools Collection - Giving Back is the Best: Be Kind, Educate by Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection is a beautifully written post on his history of involvement in WordPress and his blog, and his determination to give back to the WordPress Community. Mark and his WTC team give so much to WordPress fans through the great forums, Theme and Plugin promotion, Plugin Competition, and WordPress news. If you are considering a WordPress-specific blog, or any user community blog, check out the amazing social networking and medium Mark and his team have created. They set an example for the rest of us. Show Off Your Comment Count: Liz Strauss Comment Counter WordPress Plugin honors the popular blog conversation expert, Liz Strauss, with a chicklet comment counter similar to Feedburner. It is very configurable and shows off the number of comments on your blog. I expect some comment competitions to arise from this Plugin. Super Cache Plugin Updated: The Super Cache WordPress Plugin has been updated for better support for Win32 NTFS, improved vary headers for proxy servers, clean up of expired cache files in the background, fixes for compressing gzipped files, and much more. Copy, Cut and Paste with WordPress for iPhone: OpenClip WordPress Plugin allows copy, cut, and paste within your iPhone and works with the WordPress for iPhone application. You can see how it works on Copy and Paste for iPhone with Cali and Neal of Geek.tv. You can learn more about it on the WordPress iPhone Development Blog and study the source code on the WordPress iPhone SVN. Having Trouble Publishing Code in Posts and Comment? If you publish code in your WordPress posts and comments, WordPress may think it is code. To prevent code acting like code, WordPress automatically filters it out of the posts and comments, as does many other blogging and CMS programs. To publish code as content, see Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts and Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamp 2008, WordPress Rules the UK, and WordPress Plugin News. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp 2008 San Francisco: WordCamp 2008 was amazing with several hundred in attendance in San Francisco. The speakers were the best of the best covering a wide variety of topics for all levels of WordPress users. The Sunday WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt was great fun with eleven teams of four each racing all over town to solve the scavenger hunt clues, being only slightly interrupted by Obama s entourage blocking traffic. A lot of money was raised for the worthy cause with several matching donors. The WordCamp Report with Patrick Havens and Andrew Mager from ZDNet.com had great live blog coverage of the event. TechCrunch reported on The State of WordPress 2008 reporting Awesome Growth. Matt showcased a lot of photographs from the vent and the Scavenger Hunt. Here are some of the slide shows and blog posts summarizing the speaker s presentations: Global Voices - Democratising the Web with WordPress Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress WordPress APIs Color Theory and the Making of Monotone Quercus WordCamp 2008 Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008 (blog post) BuddyPress @ WordCamp WordPress + OAuth Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress. Findability Abwc2008 (blog post) WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress August Meetup - August 23, 2008 WordCamp South Africa - Cape Town - August 23, 2008 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden WordPress Meetup - August 24, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - New York - August 26, 2008 Central Coast WordPress Meetup - Pismo Beach, California - Aug 30, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 The Boston WordPress September Meetup - September 18, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 4, 2008 WordCampRDU - Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina - Oct 4, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - December 6-7, 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Plugins and Themes News List of Links of Where Did They Go From Here Updated: Where Did They Go From Here WordPress Plugin by Weblog Tools Collection guru, Mark Ghosh, has been updated. It adds a list of links to the bottom of each post of the pages on your blog visitors went to after visiting a particular post. What a great way to add related posts set by your visitors standards. Write Better Plugins: PlanetOzh offers How, And Why, Keeping Plugin Sources Clean, a great tutorial to help improve your Plugin writing. See also Safest Way to Include Plugin Code in Themes for more ways to help you with your Plugins. WordPress Theme Directory Lists Over 200,000 Downloads: Joseph Scott reports on the WordPress Themes Directory stats. More than 150 new Themes have been added, bringing the total to 170 themes and 261,451 downloads. The top WordPress Themes in the directory are: Atahualpa deLight WP-Andreas01 Journalist Dum-Dum Store Your Twitter Tweets Plugin: Tweet Tweet WordPress Plugin archives your Twitter tweets and the tweets of those you follow, plus replies you receive from strangers and direct messages, and stores them in your WordPress database - just in case. There is an Administration Panel to review your latest tweets and go back in history. The goal is to make your tweets safe - just in case. WordPressMU Domain Mapping Plugin: The WordPressMU Domain Mapping WordPress Plugin by Donncha O Caoimh has been released and is entered in the WordPressMU Plugin Competition. This Plugin works with WordPressMU to redirect or map individual blogs to a new domain name from the subdomain name structure. Learning WordPress Plugin Techniques from a Master Plugin Writer: Automatic Timezone WordPress Plugin is part of the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition and helps set the timezone for your blog, but more importantly, it contains code that will help Plugin authors write better Plugins. The code serves as a tutorial, giving examples of how to modify the Plugin options on the fly and modifying sections of the core Administration Panels. If you are a WordPress Plugin author, consider digging into this Plugin to find out how a master works and how to make your Plugin even better. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Woopra WordPress Plugin integrates Woopra analytics, traffic statistics, and user visit information into your WordPress Administration Panels. It works in conjunction with Woopra. Woopra is in private beta testing and you must be an approved beta tester. Kaltura Interactive Video WordPress Plugin adds interactive video capabilities to your WordPress blog with the ability to upload, record, import, edit, remix video content, enable video responses, and manage and track video content. Wet Maintenance WordPress Plugin hides a blog from non-registered users with a warning sign that the blog is undergoing maintenance. Actionable WordPress Plugin creates a categorized list of action items for blog users to check off and track - a great idea for blogs with mutliple bloggers or an active community. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips What Does The Number on the Plugins Link Mean? Weblog Tools Collection asks What Does the Blurb on Top of Plugins Link Mean? WordPress 2.6 lists a number above the Plugins menu tab link in the WordPress Administration Panels. The number shows the count for the WordPress Plugins you have installed that have updates available. Go to the Plugins Panel to update these so you have the most recent version, and can make the next WordPress upgrade easier on yourself. Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog Quick Online Tips: How to Add Gravatars to WordPress Themes Making Better Use of Your Error “404? Page Inserting images full-sized in WordPress.com Recover WordPress Password When You Have Forgotten It Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News WordPress.com Press This Added: The Press This Bookmarklet has been added to WordPress.com blogs. There is a video tutorial on how it works. The Press This Bookmarklet is added to your bookmark toolbar in your browser and allows you to blog about whatever page or thing you are viewing in your browser without switching back to your blog. WordPress Community News WordPress Facebook: Fan of WordPress? Check out the WordPress on Facebook fan page and join the fun! Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don t want to buy one? Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. Vote for WordPress Ideas: Want to have your say in what happens with WordPress. Vote for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the WordPress Ideas section. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). 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WordPress 2.6.1 Beta released for testing. Rumors fly about WordPress 2.7. Go vote for your favorite in the WordPress Plugin Competition. Lots of news for WordPress.com members including iPhone access, tags, Theme updates, image captioning, and statistics. Tons of WordCamps and WordPress Meetups around the world announced. September will be a record breaker for WordCamps. WordCamp San Francisco features hot speakers and a scavenger hunt for charity. WordPress News WordPress Mailing List: For those on the WordPress Announcement Mailing List, Matt Mullenweg sent out an announcement about WordPress 2.6, WordPressMU s latest update, WordPress for iPhone, the new WordPress Theme Directory, and WordCamp San Francisco, among other WordPress news. Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition - VOTE NOW! Have you voted yet? Get your vote in for your favorite in the WordPress Plugin Competition. There are some top notch Plugins included, and Ozh has written his review of the entrants in the competition, giving you insights into which are the ones he likes and why. WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 1 Released: The beta 1 version of WordPress 2.6.1 has been released with more than 50 fixes, including a fix for IE users for Press This. Testers are encouraged to put it through its paces as the goal is to release WordPress 2.6.1 in time for WordCamp 2008 on August 16. New features and fixes include allowing password disabling reset per user, WordPress authentication of the Atom API, the post_status now allows query functions for values separated by commas, and more security improvements. WordPress 2.7 Talk: There have been a few posts offering first looks at WordPress 2.7 due to the publishing of the WordPress Codex page for WordPress 2.7 which lists a want list of features as well as features being developed for the next major version of WordPress. Hack WordPress, Weblog Tools Collection, Quick Online Tips, and many others jumped on the band wagon. The list will evolve over time, so stay tuned for more specifics from the WordPress development team. WordPress 2.7 Real News: While there are a lot of rumors flying around about what features will be in WordPress 2.7, Jacob Santos shares some insights into the Plugin installer/uninstall methods now in the trunk of WordPress 2.7. The need to cleanly uninstall WordPress Plugins has been discussed a lot over the past year and hopefully that will be the version to embrace this feature. Also, work has started on the XML-RPC Comments API development. WordPress Facebook: Fan of WordPress? Check out the WordPress on Facebook fan page and join the fun! WordPress iPhone: The WordPress iPhone is now at version 1.1 with a lot of improvements and a couple bug fixes. You can learn more about it on the WordPress iPhone Development Blog and study the source code on the WordPress iPhone SVN. WordPress 2.6 Released: WordPress 2.6 was released a couple weeks ago. Make sure you upgrade immediately as this version includes security improvements and great new features. ATTENTION WordPress 2.5 Branch No Longer Supported: The announcement of the release of WordPress 2.6 came with the news that WordPress 2.5 will no longer be supported. It is nearly identical to the new version and has little impact on Themes and Plugins. WordPress Theme Directory Submissions: Matt Mullenweg reports that more than 300 WordPress Themes have been added to the new WordPress Theme Directory in the first 6 days. Jeff Chandler of Performancing offers a guided tour of the new WordPress Theme Directory. WordPressMU 2.6 Released: WordPressMU 2.6 has been released and Donncha offers details on the improvements, including bringing it up to WordPress 2.6 specs. Having Trouble Publishing Code in Posts and Comment? If you publish code in your WordPress posts and comments, WordPress may think it is code. To prevent code acting like code, WordPress automatically filters it out of the posts and comments, as does many other blogging and CMS programs. To publish code as content, see Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts and Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress iPhone Upgraded, WordCamp San Francisco Registration, Simon Dickson Rocked the UK, WordPress Theme Directory, and 201,000 Blogs Using WordPress 2.6. WordPress Podcasts WordPress Podcast: The WordPress Podcast: Episode 44 includes news and information on the release of WordPress 2.6, the WordPress iPhone, XML-RPC controversy, and an exclusive interview with Woopra co-founders, Elie Khoury and Jad Younan and their Woopra WordPress Plugin. WordCast Podcast: WordCast 24: Non-blog Blog with Beth Skinner, Kym Huynh and Dave Moyer featured WordPress 2.7 news, tag clouds, WordPress.com 24/7 support, using WordPress as a CMS, what defines a blog, delicious, and more WordPress news, Plugins, and tips. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp San Francisco Next Weekend: WordCamp San Francisco has announced the line up of speakers for next weekend s one-day event. Using Gravatar in a new way for the first time, Andy Peatling is putting your Gravatar on the WordCamp badges for all the attendees. There will also be a WordPress Genius Bar to get personal one-on-one WordPress help and advice, and a special fundraising charity event on Sunday called the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. There is still time to register for WordCamp 2008. Hope to see you there. WordCamp Utah: WordCamp Utah is now open for registration for the September 27, 2008, event. The speaker schedule is still being developed, and so far includes Matt Mullenweg, Richard Miller, Cameron Moll, Thom Allen, Ash Buckles and Alex King. The rest of the WordPress pros will be at WordCamp Portland the same weekend. :D Okay, I ll be at WordCamp Portland. WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). WordPress Meetup - London, England - Aug 13, 2008 WordPress Meetup UK North Northern Bloggers - Leeds Met - Aug 15, 2008 WordCamp San Francisco 2008 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF - August 16, 2008 WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt - San Francisco - Aug 17, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - August 16, 2008 The Boston WordPress August Meetup - August 21, 2008 The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress August Meetup - August 23, 2008 WordCamp South Africa - Cape Town - August 23, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - New York - August 26, 2008 Central Coast WordPress Meetup - Pismo Beach, California - Aug 30, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 4, 2008 WordCampRDU - Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina - Oct 4, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - December 6-7, 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Security News AskApache WordPress Hardening Plugin: BlogSecurity covered the new AskApache WordPress Hardening Plugin, a Plugin not for the average user but someone serious about keeping their WordPress blog protected from the server level up. WP Downloads Manager Security Vulnerability: BlogSecurity also reported that the WP Downloads Manager WordPress Plugin has a security vulnerability and should be discontinued until a fix is published. WordPress Plugins and Themes News Creating a WordPress Theme from Scratch With Help: Max Limpag has published an interesting tutorial on creating a WordPress Theme from scratch with Yahoo UI and Aptana to create the lovely and unusual web design at Tugkaran.com. This is an example of how you can build your own Theme from the ground up, with a little help from some powerful tools. Why reinvent the wheel? Don t Like the WordPress Theme Preview? Viper007bond has created the Disable Theme Preview WordPress Plugin so you can turn off the new feature in your WordPress 2.6+ Administration Panels. Nathan Rice s News WordPress Theme: Nathan Rice has written released the Proximity News Theme, premium Theme with some very innovative features to create a news style blog. He has put hundreds of hours into this design with interesting customization features like a smart home page, highly customizable sidebar, custom author Page templates, story thumbnails, clean search results Page, breadcrumb navigation, good category archives Pages, built-in Feedburner option, ability to exclude Pages from the blog navigation, post by category without duplication, easily embedded video code capability, ad space, and more. Premium Themes are starting to earn their premium qualification as designers like Rice push the boundaries of WordPress as a CMS. Inline Documentation for WordPress: Peter Westwood has created the WordPress Inline Documentation site with PHPdocumentor which outlines all the classes, functions, and more in WordPress. This is excellent for Theme and Plugin authors. This joins the ranks of other core programming functions and resources such as the WordPress Codex Function Reference. Peter Westwood also has a good guide on how to track deprecated functions for WordPress coders and extenders. Using Classes in WordPress Plugins: Stephen Rider of Nerdaphernalia wrote about how to use classes in your WordPress Plugins to improve code portability and minimize name conflicts within the code. He discusses the pros and cons and highly recommends you wrap your Plugins functions in a PHP class to future proof your Plugins. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Here are some interesting and unusual Plugins I found recently: Events Manager WordPress Plugin helps you manage events such as gallery showings, meetings, performances, and more on your WordPress blog. TimeZoneCalculator WordPress Plugin calculates different time zones and dates from UTC on your blog. Direct Image URLs For Galleries WordPress Plugin allows clicking on the thumbnail of the image to go directly to a fullsize image rather than to a page containing the medium size image in WordPress. jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries shows the full-size images on your WordPress gallery Lightbox. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: WordPress Date Button WordPress Theme Hacks Reset Your Lost WordPress Administrator Password Customize Your 404 Page Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News WordPress.com Members Invited to WordCamp San Francisco: Matt Mullenweg made a invitation to all WordPress.com members to join other WordPress fans at WordCamp San Francisco 2008 on August 16 and for the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. July Stats and Features Report: The July Wrap-Up Stats for WordPress.com were announced and include over 271,000 new members, 3,110,479 file uploads, 1,379,346,821 pageviews, and 1,102,039 active blogs, the highest number ever of active blogs on WordPress.com! The new WordPress for iPhone also works with WordPress.com blogs, which means members can now blog from their iPhones. Most WordPress.com Themes have been updated to handle tags and categories. Remember, the tags link to ALL WordPress.com blog posts with that same tag, not just the posts on your blog. A new caption feature has been added to images, too, along with image alignment CSS classes to match the styles in WordPress 2.6 new image and gallery feature. WordPress.com Now 24/7 Support: WordPress.com announced full-time 24-7 member support. You got a problem, they are there for you, no matter what time zone or time. Response time is about 24 hours, though usually it is less than that. The WordPress.com Forums continues to provide help and support for members by members and staff, and is also a great place to meet fellow WordPress.com members. iPhone Updated for WordPress.com Themes: The new iPhone WordPress application has been updated to work with the Prologue and Mdot WordPress Themes on WordPress.com. The mobile interface has been updated, which can be reached at m.wordpress.com. They are working on improving the look, but for now, you can post to your blog, check stats, add a bookmark, and other goodies to your WordPress blog from your iPhone. WordPress Community News Looking Back Into the History of WordPress: Keith Dsouza of Weblog Tools Collection shares Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0 , a history lesson on how WordPress grew out of B2/Cafelog in the early days. Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don t want to buy one? Enter the WordCast Mugshot Contest and you could win one, alone with some other fun schwag. A lot of blogs are offering WordPress mugs for prizes. Why not you? Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. Give Something Back to WordPress: Jeff Chandler of Weblog Tools Collection has written 24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress with suggestions on how to get involved in helping WordPress development. If you would like to help with the WordPress Codex, the official online user manual for WordPress users, we need you. If you would like to contribute to WordPress as a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums, testing, coding, and more, see Contributing to WordPress. If you would like to help improve WordPress by reporting bugs, please report them via the WordPress Bug Report form. Your help is needed to ensure WordPress works. Vote for WordPress Ideas: There is still time to get your vote in for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the The WordPress Ideas section. Why not take advantage of it and add your voice to the vote. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). 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WordPress Wednesday News: Your Own Song in the Plugin Competition, WordPress 2.6 Beta and First Looks, WordCamp UK New Location, Batcache, Naked Themes, and More WordPress Wednesday New: Planet WordPress Canada, WordPress Plugins Contest, Crazyhorse, BuddyPress Default Theme, Blog Hacked, Sitemaps, and More WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress Blogs Hacked, Plugin Competition is Hot, BuddyPress, WordPress Sayings, and Lots of WordPress Plugin News WordPress News Sources WordPress Planet WordPress Development Blog WordPress.com Blog Weblog Tools Collection The WordPress Podcast Lorelle on WordPress Planet WordPress from Planet Ozh WordPress Publisher Blog Planet WordPress Canada If You Are Reading This: If you are reading this blog post NOT on the Blog Herald or from within your feed reader, it is being used against the copyright policy of the copyright owners. Please report it immediately so action may be taken to break some heads and feed scraping blogs. Each Wednesday on Blog Herald is WordPress Wednesday, featuring the news around the WordPress Community. If you have a WordPress news item or tip to suggest, please contact me at this special email address: Possibly Related PostsWordPress Wednesday News: WordPress iPhone Upgraded, WordCamp San Francisco Registration, Simon Dickson Rocked the UK, WordPress Theme Directory, and 201,000 Blogs Using WordPress 2.6WordPress Wednesday News: iPhone, 10 Downing Street, WordCamp UK, WordPress 2.6 Rocks, WordPress International, and WordPress Themes DirectoryWordPress Wednesday News: WordCamps in Africa and China, WordPress 2.6, WordPress Plugin Contest Ready for Votes, WordCamp UK, and More WordPress News

WordPress iPhone has already been updated. Over 201,000 blogs using WordPress 2.6. More than 300 WordPress Themes uploaded to the new WordPress Theme Directory. Simon Dickson rocked WordCamp UK with great info on WordPress as a CMS for businesses. WordCamp San Francisco opens registration. Need help tracking changes in WordPress versions? There is now a Plugin that will help your WordPress Themes and Plugins make the transition. WordPress 2.5 is dead. WordPressMU 2.6 is alive. And Mark Jaquith writes a one line WordPress Plugin. WordPress News WordPress iPhone: The WordPress iPhone is now at version 1.1 with a lot of improvements and a couple bug fixes. You can learn more about it on the WordPress iPhone Development Blog and study the source code on the WordPress iPhone SVN. WordPress 2.6 Released: WordPress 2.6 was released last week and appears to be a fairly stable release. It is a mandatory release with security patches and you should Download WordPress 2.6 now. Over 194 bugs were fixed, too. I ve included a lot of the new features in past issues of the WordPress Wednesday News. For those with WordPress Themes that have not been updated to handle the new image placement, see Hack WordPress and WP Lover for technical help. WordPress 2.6 Stats: Matt Mullenweg released some numbers on WordPress 2.6. Within the first 10 days, there are 201,000 blogs using 2.6. The English version had been downloaded on average 23,000 a day. According to the WordPress Development blog, there have been 34 issues fixed so far for the upcoming release of 2.6.1. WordCamp UK Simon Dickson Presentation: The presentation by Simon Dickson has been declared a showstopper at WordCamp UK and he goes into more detail about the things he covered on using WordPress within a business, including a the use of WordPress for 10 Downing Street, the seat of the British Prime Minister. He also offered tips on how WordPress could improve, especially as a CMS. WordPress 2.5 Branch No Longer Supported: The announcement of the release of WordPress 2.6 came with the news that WordPress 2.5 will no longer be supported. It is nearly identical to the new version and has little impact on Themes and Plugins. WordPress Theme Directory Submissions: Matt Mullenweg reports that more than 300 WordPress Themes have been added to the new WordPress Theme Directory in the first 6 days. Jeff Chandler of Performancing offers a guided tour of the new WordPress Theme Directory. WordPressMU 2.6 Released: WordPressMU 2.6 has been released and Donncha offers details on the improvements, including bringing it up to WordPress 2.6 specs. As mentioned last week, the signup page is more secure, improvements have been made in WordPress Themes, Plugins, custom front page posts, and more. A lot of security issues have been addressed and a bunch of bugs fixed in this multiple user version of WordPress. Checked out Weblog Tools Collection Lately? One of the best resources for top-notch information on WordPress is the Weblog Tools Collection blog. They cover everything including frquent WordPress Plugin Releases (see WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/29, WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/28), and WordPress Plugin Releases 07/24), WordPress Theme Releases and Announcements (see WordPress Theme Releases for 07/25 and WordPress Theme Releases 07/23), and now offer a summary of WordPress Tips they find along their daily WordPress surfing (see WordPress Tips for 7/27. They are also the host of the annual Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition and voting is on right now, so go vote for your favorite WordPress Plugin in the competition and turn a Plugin author into a rockstar and WordPress guru! Having Trouble Publishing Code in Posts and Comment? If you publish code in your WordPress posts and comments, WordPress may think it is code. To prevent code acting like code, WordPress automatically filters it out of the posts and comments, as does many other blogging and CMS programs. To publish code as content, see Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts and Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: iPhone, 10 Downing Street, WordCamp UK, WordPress 2.6 Rocks, WordPress International, and WordPress Themes Directory. WordPress Podcasts WordPress Podcast: The WordPress Podcast: Episode 43: Out Of Date Blogs Hacked, All-In-One SEO Gets Dropped, Then Picked Up covered those topics and the development of the Crazy Horse new WordPress Administration Panels interface, Batcache, HyperDB, WordPress Plugins, WordPress 2.6, and security issues. WordCast Podcast: WordCast 23: Sexy Asian Commenters has been released and features WordPress Plugins, Liz Strauss pushing WordPress by releasing over 260 blog posts - one a minute - using the future post feature, the WordPress iPhone, WordPress 2.6 statistics and news, and more. The WordCast Mugshot Contest is still on. Send in a photograph of your Mug and you may win. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp San Francisco 2008: Registration is now open for WordCamp San Francisco 2008 on August 16, 2008 at the Mission Bay Conference Center. There is a constantly updated list of attendees and the schedule is yet to be announced for the speakers and events. Lloyd Budd is looking for WordPress Geniuses to help set up a help bar during WordCamp to help answer WordPress questions and solve problems. Interested? Record Breaking WordCamps: We ve got some record breakers coming up for WordCamp events. There are 5 WordCamps set for this September, and three will all be on September 27: WordCamp Utah in Salt Lake City, WordCamp Birmingham in Alabama, and WordCamp Portland in Oregon. Three WordCamps are scheduled so far for October. It s going to be an autumn stuffed with WordCamp and WordPress fun. WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). WordCamp San Francisco 2008 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF - August 16, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - August 16, 2008 The Boston WordPress August Meetup - August 21, 2008 The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress August Meetup - August 23, 2008 WordCamp South Africa - Cape Town - August 23, 2008 Central Coast WordPress Meetup - Pismo Beach, California - Aug 30, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Salt Lake City - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 4, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - December 6-7, 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Plugins and Themes News Mark Jaquith - One Line WordPress Plugin: After publishing How to Write a Solid and Stable WordPress Plugin, Mark Jaquith wrote a WordPress Plugin all on one line just to prove it could be done. The Post Timestamp Visible WordPress Plugin opens the post timestamp editing fields so they are visible all the time for those who use the future posts feature of WordPress. The technical article on writing WordPress Plugins is a good guideline for creating consistent, well-written, and secure Plugins and worth adding to your references. Inline Documentation for WordPress: Peter Westwood has created the WordPress Inline Documentation site with PHPdocumentor which outlines all the classes, functions, and more in WordPress. This is excellent for Theme and Plugin authors. This joins the ranks of other core programming functions and resources such as the WordPress Codex Function Reference. Peter Westwood also has a good guide on how to track deprecated functions for WordPress coders and extenders. Prologue WordPress Theme Upgraded: The Prologue WordPress Theme is now version 1.4.1, updated with fixes in the CSS for lists, improved comments login message, iPhone stylesheet integration, and much more overall improvements and fixes. The Prologue WordPress Theme is a social Theme produced by Automattic, and considered a Twitter-style blog format. Log Your Deprecated Calls: Stephen Rider has released the Log Deprecated Calls WordPress Plugin especially for Plugin and Theme authors. If WordPress calls a function or file that has been deprecated due to version changes or modifications, a message is logged in a PHP file that identifies the call s location and makes a recommendation on what to replace it with. It should allow faster and easier upgrades and modifications from version to version. Using Classes in WordPress Plugins: Stephen Rider of Nerdaphernalia wrote about how to use classes in your WordPress Plugins to improve code portability and minimize name conflicts within the code. He discusses the pros and cons and highly recommends you wrap your Plugins functions in a PHP class to future proof your Plugins. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Here are some interesting and unusual Plugins I found recently: WordPress Tabs and Slides WordPress Plugin adds accordion-style navigation to your WordPress Theme with tags and slides, creating a multi-page structure within a single pageview. MaxRef WordPress Widgets adds unlimited widgets to your WordPress blog sidebar to display posts from a specific category, links from a link category, comments, and a variety of other sidebar options. uses a filter to display a keyword cloud based upon search engine queries to your blog. Display Google Spreadsheet WordPress Plugin allows embedding of Google online spreadsheets within your WordPress blog post. Peter’s Collaboration E-mails WordPress Plugin takes advantage of the Pending Review feature of recent versions of WordPress to send an email to the moderators or editors when a post is submitted and ready for review, and another to the contributor when the post is approved for publishing. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: ZEPREZ WordPress Video Guides - How To Publish Posts To Your Website With WordPress 2.0 How To: Display the Recent Posts of Specific Categories HACK: Fixing The Code Syntax Highlighter WordPress Plugins To Work With WYSIWYG How to Put Adsense on Your WordPress Blog Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News Post Revisions on WordPress.com: The WordPress.com Blog goes into greater detail on how the new Post Revisions feature works for WordPress.com bloggers. For those with multiple bloggers, it helps track who has done what on the blog posts. If you make a boo boo, you can easily go back to an older version. Adding Captions to Images on WordPress.com: You can now add captions to photographs on your WordPress.com blog. Captions have been a real bear for web page designers, so this is a major accomplishment to add to WordPress.com blogs. To add a caption, type it in the Caption field on the Media Library Image panel and it should appear. There are also shortcodes you can use to create the caption. iPhone updated for WordPress Themes: The new iPhone WordPress application has been updated to work with the Prologue and Mdot WordPress Themes on WordPress.com. The mobile interface has been updated, which can be reached at m.wordpress.com. They are working on improving the look, but for now, you can post to your blog, check stats, add a bookmark, and other goodies to your WordPress blog from your iPhone. WordPress Community News Looking Back Into the History of WordPress: Keith Dsouza of Weblog Tools Collection shares Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0 , a history lesson on how WordPress grew out of B2/Cafelog in the early days. Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don t want to buy one? Enter the WordCast Mugshot Contest and you could win one, alone with some other fun schwag. A lot of blogs are offering WordPress mugs for prizes. Why not you? Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. Give Something Back to WordPress: Jeff Chandler of Weblog Tools Collection has written 24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress with suggestions on how to get involved in helping WordPress development. If you would like to help with the WordPress Codex, the official online user manual for WordPress users, we need you. If you would like to contribute to WordPress as a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums, testing, coding, and more, see Contributing to WordPress. If you would like to help improve WordPress by reporting bugs, please report them via the WordPress Bug Report form. Your help is needed to ensure WordPress works. Vote for WordPress Ideas: There is still time to get your vote in for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the The WordPress Ideas section. Why not take advantage of it and add your voice to the vote. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). 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Want your own song? Win the Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition! WordPress 2.6 Beta released for testing. First looks at the new features coming in WordPress 2.6. WordCamp UK changes locations. Batcache strikes. Plugin menus on the Administration Panels discussed. Is your WordPress Theme naked without a print stylesheet? We ve got WordPress tips, WordPress news, and more WordPress than ever! WordPress News WordPress 2.6 Beta Released: For the WordPress beta testers, Ryan Boren announced the release of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 for testing. The release is slated for July 7 with a July 14 possibility, depending upon how testing and fixes go, which is a month earlier than has been reported. I ve reported on many of the new features in past WordPress Wednesday News on the Blog Herald. Here are some of the first reports coming in: Shoemoney likes Post Revision, the new feature that allows you to compare the same post in multiple windows, excellent for Internet glitches and multiple authors. Dougal Campbell is also jazzed about Post Revisions and Google Gears support, and describes some of the other new features in greater detail including support for the XML-RPC and Atom client APIs being turned off by default for security protection, improved SSL access to Administration Panels, a new version of the Press This (formerly Press-It) bookmarklet, avatar options, improved WordPress Plugin management, and more. Blog Security explores the security improvements in WordPress 2.6 and reports that a number of XMLRPC features will be deactivated by default, adding more protection, along with improved password and cookie security improvements in past versions. They say it s on the right track for strong security standards. Peter Westwood is excited about the improvements in the security of WordPress 2.6 including support for SSL and disabling remote publishing protocols by default. Lester Chan, popular WordPress Plugin author, is excited about the new features including the new link in the top menu called Speed Up which connects with Google Gears, the new Dashboard Panel feature Right Now which gives a breakdown of your blog s activity in the moment, the new Word Count feature, and Theme Previews. However, with the some recent changes in WordPress versions which impact WordPress Plugins, Chan is debating whether or not to maintain WordPress 2.5 compatibility for the next wave of WordPress Plugins, especially those impacted by the new features that allow wp-config.php to move up one level from the WordPress root and allowing the wp-content directory to be in a custom location. Many are reporting their excitement about the new WordPress Auto-Upgrade feature which will make upgrading WordPress easier. WordPress Plugin Competition: Weblog Tools Collections announces that Kym Huynh, a songwriter, has just donated a new prize to the growing collection, a song written for the winning recipient and professionally recorded. The Weblog Tools Collection s WordPress Plugin Competition for WordPress 2.5+ continues to grow with new prizes and Plugins. Here are the Plugin entries listed on the Plugin Competition Blog so far: Automatic Timezone Plugin Content By Country DL-MENU Tab generation and dynamic colorschemes Adminimize SEO Smart Links WPMU Plugin Commander Great Real Estate MailPress Post Tabs ZdMultilang Simple Flash Video WordPress Plugin Sermon management WordPress Plugin for churches Reflex Automatic Blogroll WordPress Plugin Fun with In-Context Comments WordPress Plugin WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin Fun with In-Context Comments WordPress Plugin Reflex Automatic Blogroll WordPress Plugin WordPress: Display Comments On Main Page WordPress Plugin WordPress and Google Summer of Code Update: Lloyd Budd reports on WordPress Google Summer of Code and how the team is improving WordPress to make it faster, better, and adding new features including new importing features, improved code, code documentation, and more. BlogSecurity s Next Generation Security Tester: BlogSecurify announces the launch of Launch BlogSecurify Next Generation! BlogSecurify Next Generation, the new modular, expanded version of the WP-scanner WordPress Plugin which tests your blog for security issues and vulnerabilities. WordPress Blogs Hacked: If you have not updated your WordPress blog, your blog maybe at risk from hackers due to security vulnerabilities in older versions of WordPress. Update now. Here are more articles dealing with WordPress security issues: Donncha - Did Your WordPress Site Get Hacked? Donncha - WordPress: Catch website file changes with AIDE Peter s Useful Crap » WordPress: File Change Notifications For Your WordPress blog on Linux WordPress Security Prevention, Reactions, and Scares WordPress Podcast: Episode 42: Our favorite Plugins, Ask Matt, WordPress Theme Design is out from the WordPress Podcast and features a new segment by Matt Mullenweg answering questions about WordPress news and issues, discussion of new WordPress Plugins in the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition, WordPress Themes, and more on their favorite WordPress Plugins. They are also seeing your top ten favorite WordPress Plugins for an upcoming episode. WP Weekly Podcast: Episode 21 of the WP Weekly Podcast was canceled due to technical difficulties, but hopefully it will be back up and running next week. WordCast Podcast: WordCast started a while ago, and eventually found their stride to becoming a bit of an irreverent but fun look at the news from the WordPress Community. Podcast hosts Beth Skinner, Kym Huynh and Dave Moyer have interviewed a variety of WordPress experts and pros and feature a variety of interesting WordPress news and tips each week. Recent episodes include: WordCast 18: Sucky Stats WordCast 17: Head-eating Cartoons WordCast 16: Serenade the Developers WordCast 15: Stalking the Monks WordCast 8: Tweet My Thingie WordCast 10: The WordPress Widget Mafia WordCast 11: Bodily function control WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress WordCast 13: WPancake WordCast 14: Blog’s Anatomy WordPress News and Tips from Canada: If you haven t found the new Planet WordPress Canada aggregator, you are missing out on some interesting WordPress tips and information coming from the north. Here are some recent highlights: [Peter s Useful Crap] Redirect users to the WordPress front page after logging in [Kulpreet Singh] Question: Will WordPress Bring Me Traffic? [Peter s Useful Crap] File change notifications for your WordPress blog on Linux [BlueFur.com Web Hosting] Related Posts [BlueFur.com Web Hosting] Clean Archives Reloaded [BlueFur.com Web Hosting] Category Selector Sidebar [BlueFur.com Web Hosting] KeywordLuv Plugin Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday New: Planet WordPress Canada, WordPress Plugins Contest, Crazyhorse, BuddyPress Default Theme, Blog Hacked, Sitemaps, and More. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp UK Changes Locations: Only a few weeks away, WordCamp UK has had a last minute change of venue to The Studio in Birmingham. Check out WordCamp UK for more details and maps. WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). Huntsville WordPress Meetup, Alabama - June 28, 2008 Nashville WordPress Meetup - June 28, 2008 Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress Meetup - June 28, 2008 The New York City WordPress - July 19, 2008 WordCamp UK - July 19-20, 2008, Birmingham, UK VENUE CHANGE WordCamp San Francisco 2008 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF - Aug 16, 2008 WordPress 2.6 - July 7, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 South by Deep South WordCamp - September 26-28 - Birmingham, Alabama WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4th, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp San Francisco August 16: August 16, 2008 is the next WordCamp San Francisco, considered by many to be the premier WordCamp event. This year, it appears it will be only one day instead of two, but details are still coming. It will be at the Mission Bay Conference Center this year. WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Plugins and Themes News Andy Skelton has announced Batcache for WordPress, a competitor, so to speak, to Super-Cache WordPress Plugin. While Super Cache works well on typical servers, the Batcache WordPress Plugin works with enterprises with multiple servers that don t share disk space, and those who won t or can t use file-based caching. Andy says that Batcache creates a simple caching model to protect your database and servers from traffic spikes by caching a requested document when it is clear the document has been accessed several times within a specific period of time and temporarily caches that document for X seconds, providing new users with the cached copy for the short duration and lightening the load on the servers. This is used on WordPress.com. It also resquires Memchached. Does Your Theme Have a Print Stylesheet? Hack WordPress reminds us all that if you offer a WordPress Theme, especially a premium (paid) WordPress Theme, it must include a print stylesheet as part of the Theme s styles. While many of us want to live in a paperless world, many web users want to print out blog posts to read them on the go, share them with friends, or file them for future reference. Make their life easier by including a print stylesheet. WordPress Meets Magento: The Lazzymonk s WordPress Integration Plugin integrates WordPress into the open source ecommerce system called Magento. Where and How Do You Put Your Plugin s Panel? Nerdaphernalia discusses how to direct users to your WordPress Administration Panel for your Plugin, a frequent request on the mailing lists and forums, and gives a technical option on how to place the Plugin s options menu panel. Traditionally, all Administration Panels for Plugins should be under the Plugins menu, unless it is a frequently accessed panel or associated with a specific task. For example, the Akismet Comment Spam WordPress Plugin is located on the Comments Panel due to the frequency of access and strong association with Comments. But a Plugin that requires a one-time setting of options and then forget about it attitude should reside within the Plugins Panel. Nedaphernalia s technique helps WordPress Plugin authors help users by including links to the Plugin s menu Panel from a variety of sources, to avoid hunting and confusion. Manage More Than One Blog: Nerdaphernalia has released Virtual Multiblog WordPress Plugin, Plugin that turns your WordPress Administration Panel into a multiple blog management system. It s been recently updated to work with the newest version of WordPress and has a lot of new features and improvements. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Here are some interesting and unusual Plugins I stumbled on recently: Draft Posts WordPress Widget displays your draft posts on your blog so readers can see what is coming up. I would prefer to use something that featured future posts, as I have drafts that may never see the light of day that have been sitting in my draft list for two or more years. Increase Sociability WordPress Plugin shows custom messages to visitors from social networking sites only. Smartlinker WordPress Plugin adds to the WordPress Visual Text Editor toolbar another toolbar for linking to words and phrases within your blog that are names, places, or things. AU Footer WordPress Plugin adds HTML code to your blog s footer so you can include copyright notices or other information from within the Administration Panels. Twitter Style Links WordPress Plugin adds Twitter-style links to blog comments. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress.com News WordPress.com Gets XML Sitemaps: WordPress.com bloggers now have XML Sitemaps built right in. An XML sitemap is a file stored in your blog s directory that acts as a roadmap to guide search engines that recognize XML sitemaps, which currently include Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, and MSN. The purpose is to direct the web crawler through your site, directing it to most recent posts and post modifications. It helps eliminate orphans , pages without intrasite links. Unlike what some will tell you, you do not need to do anything with the new XML Sitemaps. You won t even know they are there. You do not need to register with Google or make any changes. If you have disabled pings and search engine indexing in your blog options, Google and other search engines won t visit on purpose. WordPress Techniques and Tips Here are some more interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: Use WordPress Blogroll For Site Navigation Reset Your WordPress Password via phpMyAdmin Dean Sabatino - How To: Creating Your Corporate Intranet Using WordPress Darren Hoyt - Displaying Related Categories and Content in WordPress Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress Community News Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug and shared my love with a lot of people recently. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Give Something Back to WordPress: Jeff Chandler of Weblog Tools Collection has written 24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress with suggestions on how to get involved in helping WordPress development. If you would like to help with the WordPress Codex, the official online user manual for WordPress users, we need you. If you would like to contribute to WordPress as a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums, testing, coding, and more, see Contributing to WordPress. If you would like to help improve WordPress by reporting bugs, please report them via the WordPress Bug Report form. Your help is needed to ensure WordPress works. Vote for WordPress Ideas: There is still time to get your vote in for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the The WordPress Ideas section. Why not take advantage of it and add your voice to the vote. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. 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Please report it immediately so action may be taken to break some heads and feed scraping blogs. Each Wednesday on Blog Herald is WordPress Wednesday, featuring the news around the WordPress Community. If you have a WordPress news item or tip to suggest, please contact me at this special email address:

Just a quick video to illustrate some other options for adding Flickr photos into your WordPress.com blog. ie. this is aside from using the "blog this" feature. Produced by Miss604 for Raul. **For my own site, which is an install of WP, I do not use these steps since I have a great plugin that inserts linked images (and can search by tags) all within the post editing page.

Are you using flickr? If not, you should. If you would like to add your flickr photos to your wordpress.com blog, a process that is called "embedding", you just need to watch this short screencast.

Not happy with the standard wordpress.com theme, Kubrick? Well, you can change the theme for your wordpress.com blog with just a few clicks. Here's how.

This is a tutorial on how to get your own blog started. The tutorial shows you how to use wordpress.com. This video was created for my students at the American Language Institute.

Jak szybko założyć bloga w wordpress.com to screencast, ktory pozwoli nam szybko cieszyc sie nowym blogiem Author: lukaszbib Keywords: blog blogi wordpress wordpress.com blogging blogs Added: February 3, 2008

WordPress.com has made some impressive changes. Podcasters in the know will be asking themselves if they should move over to this impressive (and free) service. In this episode of the Podcast Tools Weekly Update, Paul Colligan gives the pros and cons of moving your Podcast to Wordpress.com. Should you do it? Links: About the WordPress.com Changes | Wordpress.com Episode: 80 Technorati Tags: paul colligan, podcast tools, podcast tools weekly update, wordpress.com, wordpress for podcasters Download audio file (PCT-2008-01-22.mp3)

WordPress.com has made some impressive changes. Podcasters in the know will be asking themselves if they should move over to this impressive (and free) service. In this episode of the Podcast Tools Weekly Update, Paul Colligan gives the pros and cons of moving your Podcast to Wordpress.com. Should you do it? Links: About the WordPress.com Changes | Wordpress.com Episode: 80 Technorati Tags: paul colligan, podcast tools, podcast tools weekly update, wordpress.com, wordpress for podcasters Download audio file (PCT-2008-01-22.mp3)

WordPress.com has made some impressive changes. Podcasters in the know will be asking themselves if they should move over to this impressive (and free) service. In this episode of the Podcast Tools Weekly Update, Paul Colligan gives the pros and cons of moving your Podcast to Wordpress.com. Should you do it? Links: About the WordPress.com Changes | Wordpress.com Episode: 80 Technorati Tags: paul colligan, podcast tools, podcast tools weekly update, wordpress.com, wordpress for podcasters