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Vanessa Fox is a seasoned speaker, blogger and now writer. While at Google she worked on Webmaster Central and led the way on creating lots of the great features that make it easier to understand how Google sees your sites. On this week’s show we discussed: her new book on marketing in the age of Google, common SEO pitfalls to avoid, and search engine optimization tips in particular about helping search engines discover your content, using related articles and internal linking and a smart XML sitemap strategy.
\nAlso touched upon is the use of keyword research tools for businesses, bloggers, and basically anyone out there who has a website and wants it to be found. Vanessa points at a great list of keyword research tools she has on her site.
\nThe news section this week included highlighting of a couple videos from WordCampTV from Jonathan Dingman and Daryl Koopersmith. In addition, the BuddyPress update was just released and comes highly recommended.
\nPlugin picks of the week:
\n\nKiller Search Marketing Tips is an episode of The WordPress Podcast, which is a weekly podcast hosted by Joost de Valk and Frederick Townes.
We are happy to announce that WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.2 is now available. Depending 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 1.2 .
\nSo what’s new in version 1.2:
\nThe app now supports the following languages:
\nInterested in translating the app ? Visit translate.wordpress.org/projects.
\nAnd a special thanks to Frank Wessel of Vodafone-DE for his invaluable feedback.
\nHave questions or feedback that would enhance the app ? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry forums.
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From Alain de Botton’s book How Proust Can Change Your Life, highly recommended:
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\nHe might have appreciated his phone, but he noted how quickly everyone else began taking theirs for granted. As early as 1907, he wrote that the machine was
\n\na supernatural instrument before whose miracle we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream.
Moreover, if the confiserie had a busy line or the connection to the tailor a hum, instead of admiring the technological advances that had frustrated our sophisticated desires, we tended to react with childish ingratitude.
\n\nSince we are children who play with divine forces without shuddering before their mystery, we only find the telephone “convenient,” or rather, as we are spoilt children, we find that “it isn’t convenient,” we fill Le Figaro with our complaints.
A mere thirty-one years separated Bell’s invention from Proust’s sad observations on the state of French telephone-appreciation. It had taken a little more than three decades for a technological marvel to cease attracting admiring glances and turn into a household object that we wouldn’t hesitate to condemn were we to suffer at its hands the minor inconvenience of a delayed glace au chocolat.
\nIt points clearly enough to the problems faced by human beings, comparatively humdrum things, in seeking eternal, or at least life-long, appreciation from their fellows.
Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend. Fortunately for me it is a long weekend here and I sure can use the extra day off.
\nHere are the latest plugins fresh from the oven.
\nWork-from-home Projects
\nOnce activated, this plugin will create a widget displaying various work from home opportunities. From the options page you can type in your own keywords to select which opportunities to display or go with the default. The appearance of the widget is also customizable.
Export OPML
\nThis plugin will export the visible items in your blogroll to a OPML file in your blog root. Then you need only create a link to it somewhere. Handy if you have a large list of links and don’t want to clutter your blog.
Mouse Eye Tracking Service
\nThe plugin will tap in to PicNet’s Mouse Eye Tracking Service, a web analytics service which tracks user activity on your site and displays the data in the form of heat maps, click maps, page navigation maps, etc. Requires registration with Mouse Eye Tracking Service. They have both free and paid options.
DynamicWP Image Flipper
\nA cool way to show off an image gallery. View images by either clicking or dragging the animated corners as if reading a book. The plugin creates a widget which you can drop in to your sidebar.
WOW Recruitment Widget
\nCreates a widget that displays recruitment status for the popular World of Warcraft game.
OSM (OpenStreetMap)
\nAdd a OSM map to your posts and pages, complete with tracks and markers, via shortcode. You can also add geo data info to your post and pages.
WP Google-Buzz
\nSpice up your content by adding a Google Buzz button to your posts.
Facebook Comments for WordPress
\nIntegrates the Facebook commenting system right into your website.
AVH Amazon
\nDisplay one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry. You can use widgets or insert a shortcode in to your posts/pages.
Rico Ajax Menu
\nCreate a menu with tabs, accordions or pull-down using Rico Ajax (http://openrico.org/).
Bing Maps Widget
\nAdd a Bing Map to your sidebar via a widget or to your posts by adding a shortcode.
All in One Webmaster
\nIntegrate Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo SiteExplorer, Bing Webmaster Central and more into your blog.
SEO Ultimate
\nAn all-in-one SEO solution.
Scatter Gallery
\nCreate a photo gallery with scattered thumbnails.
Perennial Weblog Tools Collection community favorite Who Sees Ads can be used to show ads only to certain visitors – such as people who have arrived on your site from a search engine. It’s a useful way to improve your click-through-ratio, and please your regular readers by hiding ads from them.
\nThis is a quick introduction to using the plugin. Showing ads only to search engine visitors is extremely simple – Who Sees Ads can do much, much more. Check out the links at the end of this article for more information.
\nNOTE: Although the plugin says it’s for WordPress 2.5, it works fine with WordPress 2.92. I haven’t been able to test it with 3.0 yet because I don’t have any 3.0 test sites indexed in any search engines yet. Anyone else know if it works with 3.0?
\nIf you don’t want to do this with a plugin, you can do it with some simple PHP, see here.
\n1. Install and activate Who Sees Ads.
\nNOTE: If you use WordPress Firewall (and I recommend you do), you’ll need to deactivate it while you install, activate, and configure this plugin.
\n2. Click “Who Sees Ads” under “Settings” on the dashboard.
\n3. Under “Edit Contexts” type a name for your context, preferably something descriptive like “Search Engines Only.”
\n4. Drag the “if Visitor comes from a search engine then Display” box from the “Possible Rules” box to the “Active Rules” box.
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5. Paste the code for your ad (from Adsense or wherever) into the “Ad Code” box.
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That’s all you need to do to get this very simple configuration to work – but wouldn’t it be nice if you could drop that PHP code into a widget? You can, but you’ll need another plugin for that.
\n7. Install and activate Samsarin PHP Widget – this plugin allows you to add widgets to your sidebar that can execute PHP code.
\n8. Go to “Widgets” under “Appearance” on the dashboard.
\n9. Drag an instance of Samsarin PHP Widget to your sidebar and position it where you want the ads to appear.
\n10. Paste the code from step 6 in the widget.
\nDon’t forget to turn WordPress Firewall back on if you turned it off.
\nFor a look at some other things you can do with this plugin:
\n9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”
\nHiding Advertisements For Single Posts
\nAnd of course visit the plugin homepage for even more documentation and ideas!
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Photo Theme is the newest release from Blogging Inside and much like their other themes features a soothing colour palette. This theme comes with a 300px wide sidebar (perfect for your ads) and a whopping seven widgetized areas. It is also localized and comes with the language files for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian.
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Magnitade comes to us from Jing Xuan and sports a crisp and clean look. Although it is meant to be used as a gallery theme it can easily be adapted for other purposes. It requires the WP-PostViews and WordPress Related Posts plugins to function, both of which are included in the ZIP package.
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Diabolique Fountain, from Diabloique Design, is a nice looking dark theme which sports a horizontal navigation menu for displaying pages including a drop down menu for child pages, a left widgetized sidebar and a large footer area.
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If you are unfamiliar with Milo’s work you are in for a treat as she turns out some of the most artistic and beautiful themes I’ve come across. Dark Horizon is no different. As the name implies, Dark Horizon is a dark portfolio theme with blue tints. It features a drop down menu for both pages and categories, a jQuery powered front page slider and built-in support for pagenavi and related posts. It is also cufon custom font enabled and comes with an options page. The only drawback is the theme is not hosted on her site. If you want to download it you will have to visit 4shared.com.
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300 is another visually stunning theme from Milo of 3oneseven. Like Dark Horizon, it is a dark theme with red highlights. It is cufon custom font enabled, contains Flickr support and has an options panel for full control over the front page. The footer holds links, complete with custom icons, to some of your favourite social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook and the front page sports a jQuery slider. As is the case with Dark Horizon, if you want to download 300 you’ll be directed to 4shared.com.
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Ocean Blue is the third theme from Milo we are featuring. Unlike the previous two themes, this one is brighter with its main colours being blue and white. While it is aimed at the real estate niche, with a bit of work it can be used with a regular blog. Some of the features include a jQuery powered front page slider, built-in twitter status updates, a large footer area, drop down menu for pages and categories and built-in related posts. Included is a print style sheet. Again, if you want to download this theme you’ll need to do it from 4shared.com.
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If you’re looking for a less cluttered look, the single column Blitzy theme from Mainolo is worth taking a look at. Some believe that not having a sidebar will allow your visitors to concentrate on the content as there are no distractions. If you still want to include such things as links etc fear not for Blitzy comes with a fully widgetized footer. This is a clean and crisp looking theme that comes with an options page and allows you to change the header graphic from the backend.
\nWe hope you enjoy the latest offerings and as always if you have any comments, questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comments section below. We always look forward to hearing from you.
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\nThis highly anticipated version provides fixes to 74 reported tickets and adds improved support for WordPress 3.0 to help ensure a safe and worry free upgrade. Check out the BuddyPress release history for details on the important fixes in this release.
\nA tip of the hat to boonebgorges, dwenaus, wpmuguru, paulgibbs, rvenable, and everyone else that contributed. Your involvement in the community is very much appreciated and thanks for helping out this time around!
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A company I met through Techstars and later invested in alongside Tim Ferriss, DailyBurn, just was bought by IAC. Congrats to Andy and the team there.
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\n What topic should I present on at WordCamp Reno? – http://www.renotahoewordcamp.com/customer surveys
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On Facebook I was trying to get to an event and clicked “see all” on the friend finder instead of the events area. Then something caught my eye, every friend Facebook was suggesting for me was female, and most I didn’t know. (Update, there’s one guy in there.) The first part of that is interesting — perhaps they’re testing some optimization in the friend-adder with the assumption that since I’m a straight male I’m more likely to add girls than guys, but if so that seems a little skeezy.
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\nSelecting posts based on certain criteria has always been pretty straightforward in WordPress. What has been hard has been excluding that content from all default queries (home, archives, category, feeds, comment feeds, etc.). By using a custom post type, you can easily exclude content from these default queries, and this is a huge win.
\nLorna Li is the Marketing Manager of Salesforce.com, the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. Discussed on the show were several topics helpful for small businesses (SMB) getting started with a web site, including: selecting a domain name, keyword research / discovery, site structure, how to get the right site design, choose the right web host, find consultants and even selecting the best plugins to save you time.
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Bonus: next to working at Salesforce CRM, you can also hire Lorna as a Green Marketing Consultant through her blog, which is packed with good info on marketing, which is still awesomely useful even if you’re not that green. She has a good presentation on bootstrap marketing too that is worth checking out.
\nSmall Business Fundamentals is an episode of The WordPress Podcast, which is a weekly podcast hosted by Joost de Valk and Frederick Townes.
When I wrote about starting a bank, aka SafeBank, I was overwhelmed by the feedback and at least once a week since then I’ve been contacted by someone working on the idea. One I hadn’t heard of yet though is BankSimple, which I noticed yesterday because Alex Payne is leaving Twitter to work on it. I’m fully focused on WordPress and Automattic so can’t be involved with any new ventures as more than an advisor, but I’m glad smart people are tackling the problem and I hope to have an account at one (or more) someday.
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The best part about traveling is the forced minimalism. My life at home, as it has evolved, is quite complex and full of stuff. On the road I’m reduced to what I carry in a small backpack and hand bag — clutter becomes a physical burden. I really enjoy this simplicity as it helps me focus. One of my favorite things to watch as a friend or colleague travels more is how their bag gets smaller and smaller with each trip.
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\n\n\n… there are a ton of excellent needs and reasons to use BuddyPress to take your site and turn it into the community it is begging to become. That’s the killer point: there needs to be a community underlying all of this. Maybe your focused on gardeners in Texas or stamp collectors in Des Moines or people around the world dealing with Cystic Fibrosis – if you have a community in mind then BuddyPress is an amazing tool because you can shape the community according to you/its needs. Take that Facebook (or Ning)!\n
The slides and the full video from the presentation and more of his thoughts are available at mikepratt.tv
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\nSome people view WordPress as a CMS platform to build on. They want us to help them create a website, service, etc. and they see WordPress as a platform that their idea can be built on. For these projects we will typically use some existing tools for various features but build customized solutions based on the feature set we work to define with the client. The final solution typically has a smooth and cohesive back-end administrative interface and is logically consistent throughout the feature set.
\nThese projects are typically larger engagements and these clients are typically willing to make a larger investment in the development of their project in exchange for a more cohesive, consistent and robust result.
\nOn the other side of the spectrum are people who come to us viewing WordPress (and the thousands of plugins that themes that are available for it) as a product. These folks typically are looking to create a website with a certain feature set and may already have in mind a collection of existing plugins that they think may be useful for creating these features. They expect the project to be more a matter of configuration than development.
\nThese clients are typically primarily interested in keeping costs down and will trade elegance for expedience.
\nAs you might imagine, these two very divergent approaches can lead to some significant challenges, especially when initially talking to potential clients.
\nThe first thing we do is try to figure out which camp a project falls into. Once we know if it’s a platform or product project, everything gets quite a bit easier. This can be much more difficult than you might imagine. Our prospective clients typically see WordPress in only one way, while we can see it from many angles given our extensive experience. A number of clients will describe what sounds like a platform implementation, then all of a sudden they may tell us something that swerves onto the product path. The opposite can also be true. We always try to determine this as early in the process as possible, but we’ve also had rare cases where a project has switched tracks in the middle – I recommend doing all you can to avoid this.
\nOnce we’ve established the type of project involved, we have to do a couple of things:
\nThe first part here is the most important. It’s very important to us that we have a happy client at the end of a project. If we are hearing requirements that all lean towards a platform project but the client is voicing an opinion for a product implementation, that’s a concern. When everyone is on the same page, the chance of missing expectations is greatly reduced.
\nFor example, if a client wants to do a product implementation but has specific functional requirements for various components and is unwilling to relax those requirements based on existing functionality (in WordPress, a plugin, etc.), then we should really be talking about a platform project instead of a product project.
\nThere are also some significant differences in post-launch support and follow-up development with each approach. We will often engage in an ongoing support and maintenance relationship with clients whom we have developed larger platform sites for. These relationships generally run quite smoothly, with requests for additional features and functionality being built incrementally on top of the foundation we built in the initial implementation phase of the project.
\nConversely, for the product projects we engage in, it is more typical that we build the site or service and hand it off to the client to run from there. When the client comes back in the future and wants changes made, the ease of implementation and resulting cost of new features can vary widely based on how these new features can be implemented on the wide variance of approaches utilized by the off-the-shelf plugins that provide many of the features for their site. It’s also not uncommon for upgrades to a 3rd party plugin to change certain functionality in such a way that it no longer works exactly as desired for the client’s purposes.
\nAnother challenge with WordPress as a product engagements is managing expectations in regards to 3rd-party plugins and themes. In most cases we will try to budget time to code-review any plugin we include in one of our builds to make sure it is secure and will scale to client’s needs. This can result in us advising the client not to use the plugin or theme they had intended, or require additional time and cost investment in addressing shortcomings of the plugin or theme. There is also the issue of fixing functional bugs in these plugins.
\nPeople who view WordPress as a product will typically expect that any collection of plugins will work elegantly and seemlessly together. Rarely is this the case. Even between experienced WordPress developers you will find preferences for different implementation approaches. Mix in plugins written by developers that do not have extensive WordPress experience and you can end up trying to weld the transmission from a 57 Chevy to a tricycle.
\nThe important thing for us from a project perspective is to be honest and consistent with our clients. They may not want to hear than plugin X and plugin Y aren’t going to be compatible, but it’s a lot better to tell them up front than to have to tell them late in the development cycle when you discover that you’ve run out of duct tape.
\nWhile you can probably tell from my descriptions here that we prefer to work with WordPress as a platform because we like building elegant solutions. However, we do engage in WordPress as a product projects as well and have built some sites and services we are quite proud of.
\nWordPress is both a platform and a product – it’s a wonderful and confusing world.
\nIf you’re a WordPress developer or are interested in building something interesting with WordPress, taking a moment to figure out if you need/want to use WordPress as a platform or as a product may save you quite a few headaches.
\n“The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.” — Marc Andreessen from a talk at Stanford a few days ago. Hat tip: Niall.
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\nWith that said, let’s take a look at some of the latest and greatest theme releases from the WordPress community.
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Oceanic Flight comes to us from JB WEBDEV. It sports two widgetized sidebars, horizontal navigation above the header image and a large search box in the header area. The theme comes in a wide-screen format with its main colours being white, gray and a soothing off-brown. It is easily customizable.
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NaturalPaper is the latest offering from the gang at DynamicWP. The theme has a sort of paper and wood feel to it. It comes with a widgetized sidebar including a tabber section to display your most popular posts, latest posts and comments. It has a horizontal menu above the header area to display pages and another below the header area for categories, including a drop down menu for sub-categories. From the theme’s options page you can change the default Gravatar image, exclude pages/categories from the nav menus, include your Twitter & RSS links and turn off/on the TimThumb script.
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Technicolor is an elegant looking dark theme from WordPress Theme Designer. Although it is aimed at video bloggers, this theme can easily be used for regular blogs. It comes with a widgetized sidebar and footer and features a video showcase displayed on the home page which can be controlled from the theme’s options page.
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BrownishOrange is, you guessed it, a brown and orange coloured theme. It is the latest release from the stable of BloggingInside who has been turning out quite a few themes if you have been paying attention to our forums. It’s appearance is quite soothing and comes with three widgetized areas: a content block above the main content area, the sidebar and another content block directly below the main content area.
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\nBy the 1960s, for instance, the Japanese already viewed a fan, a washingmachine, and electric rice cookers as essential goods for a satisfactory living standard. In due course, a car, an air conditioner, and a color television were added to the list of “essentials.” And in the United States, 83 percent of people saw clothes dryers as a necessity in 2006. Even products around only a short time quickly become viewed as necessities. Half of Americans now think they must have a mobile phone, and one third of them see a high-speed Internet connection as essential.
Emphasis mine. From the State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures. They also have a nice, WordPress-powered blog. (A necessity.) You can see the context of the quote in Google Books.
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\nWordPress does not currently ship with any output caching. First, because most blogs never get enough traffic to need it, so it’s not worth the added complexity and configuration that it would add to our relatively nimble core. But also because every environment is different, and what works on one web host may actually degrade performance on another. So we leave it up to the WordPress user to choose whether they need a caching plugin, and which one to run.
\nAs a web host, you know what caching strategies will work best with your server architecture. You have the ability to roll out things like Memcached or APC. You can route image requests to a lightweight web server or a CDN. These changes will result in a better user experience, and they’ll save you money.
\nAll code has bugs. WordPress has had its share of security issues through the years. As a web host, you can help keep your users out in front of security issues instead of just being reactive when someone gets hacked. First, by encouraging, or even demanding that users upgrade their sites to the newest available version of WordPress. In practice, there aren’t any widespread attacks against the current version of WordPress. The large scale attacks you see from time to time are against old versions of the software whose users haven’t updated in a while. It is in a web host’s interest to encourage upgrades and reduce the incidence of exploitation.
\nBecause WordPress is so widespread, it also is often the victim of attacks that originated against other software or server misconfiguration. So a bad guy gets in using something else, and then once in, they look for WordPress installs to exploit. You can help users recover from these attacks by aggressively backing up their data and by looking for suspicious files or suspicious code that could indicate that a bad actor is exploiting their WordPress install.
\nPeople ask me for hosting recommendations all the time. I have a few decent hosts that I’ll recommend, but I don’t have any hosts about which I can say “use them, because they know how to host WordPress, and they’ll support you.” I’d like nothing better than to have a dozen such hosts to recommend by this time next year. WordPress is here to stay, and it’s time for web hosts to adapt!
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\nI have not tested any of these with the latest WordPress 3.0 beta.
\nMonitoring
\nIn my first article on WordPress security I mentioned Open Source Tripwire as an option for monitoring your WordPress install for unexpected changes. A reader pointed out that it wasn’t the best solution since it’s no longer maintained and suggested a couple other alternatives. Since then, I’ve discovered a much easier way of monitoring your WP install: WordPress File Monitor.
\nWhat it does: monitors all the files in your WordPress directory (except the ones you tell it not to) and e-mails you whenever something changes. This means nothing changes without you knowing about it. If someone edits your theme files to include spam links or uploads weird php scripts, you’ll know right away.
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\nDashboard Alert: I had this set to yes for a while, but having clear the notification pretty much anytime I made a post (because I upload images, and the sitemap.xml changes) got tedious. Just keep up with the e-mail alerts if you turn this off.
\nScan Interval: 30 minutes might be a little too often, I should probably cut this back to something more sane like 2 hours.
\nDetection Method: My main site is quite large and performance is a big concern for me, so I keep it set to Modification Date. If you’re really paranoid and have a small site, change this to Hash.
\nE-mail address fields: self explanatory.
\nNotification format: Detailed. Why would you want anything less?
\nSite Root: Theoretically, you shouldn’t have to change this.
\nExclude paths: I exclude my cache folder (if you don’t use WP Supercache or something similar, you don’t need to worry about this) and error_logs that get a lot of errors. I do have it monitor my Uploads folder in case someone tries to slip an exploit disguised as an image in there somewhere.
\n\nI learned about this one from the plugin author in the comments on my original post. As far as I can tell, it scans the core WordPress files and template files for exploits.
\nYou can also have it do a daily scan and send you the results. I don’t do this since I’m constantly monitoring my site for changes with WordPress File Monitor. If you don’t want to monitor every single change in your WP directory, this could be a good alternative.
\n\nThis seems to do a more thourough scan than Antivirus for WordPress, but I always run into memory problems if I try to run it with the “Files” option checked.
\nWhat to do if you’ve been hacked
\nDetailed instructions will have to wait for a future post. For right now, see the WordPress Codex entry for what to do.
\nBonus: greping for great justice
\ngrep is a UNIX command for searching the entire text of a file or files on a computer. If you know the exploit you’re looking for, it’s extremely useful. To do this you’ll need SSH access to your web server, and you’ll need to be comfortable using it.
\nI had a nightmare of an exploit a while back that I eventually figured out: somehow someone had uploaded a copy of webadmin.php (with a different name so it would be harder to spot) to a few places on my server. They could then navigate straight to that file and change any file on my server whenever they wanted. I found one instance of it and deleted it, and thought that would be that. But I was still finding that my template files were getting edited. Here’s what I did:
\n1. Logged into my web server by SSH
\n2. Changed directory to my public directory (you may need to ask your web host where this is)
\n3. Ran the following command: “grep -r ‘webadmin’ *”
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\n\n… [a] discussion on the role of technology and pedagogy in changing how people learn languages. And we also wanted to provide an opportunity for you to get to know us better and for us to get to know you.
\nOur intention is not to have a blog just for the sake of being current – no technology for technology’s sake, we like to say. This is about opening up the conversation and providing a focused forum for debate on new ideas and practices in the field of language learning. Clearly, there is lots of soul searching going on out there about tech-enabled language learning – what’s lacking is the participation of leading practitioners and a framework for the debate. We hope to change that.
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\nThis plugin gives you the ability to set a collection of file extensions that you do not want WordPress to handle. For example, a request to a .gif file probably isn’t a valid request to one of your posts or pages, so having WordPress look at the URL and try to find something to show is a waste of server resources.
\nNote that this is a very basic implementation that has been only lightly tested on a few sites. If you have any trouble with it or think an alternate implementation would be an improvement, patches and/or suggestions are quite welcome.
\nAll of my plugins now have new homes on the Crowd Favorite website, along with their own dedicated community support forum. You can find the details, screenshots, support info, etc. for this plugin on the Exclude File Type Requests plugin page.
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\nUniversity of Houston, which I attended for 2 years, created a profile of me for their “You Are the Pride” campaign. In the list I am currently alphabetically sandwiched between Carl Lewis and Hakeem Olajuwon.
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Joost and Frederick discussed Google’s Webmaster Tools with this weeks guest John Mueller from Google. All the sections of Google Webmaster Tools were discussed, and their different uses for bloggers, from the new search queries and ranking overview to sitelinks, crawl errors, XML Sitemaps and the recently updated Google News Sitemaps (there’s actually a WordPress plugin for those).
\nIn the news this week: several upcoming WordCamps, as well as the fact that WordPress 3.0 beta 2 was released.
\nIn the plugin picks, at the tail end of the show, Frederick picked IntenseDebate, a very cool comment system by Automattic. Joost picked clean notifications, a plugin to clean up the comment and ping / trackback notification emails.
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Dries Buytaert re-tweeted a couple of interesting things on Twitter earlier today. First was this one:
\n\nRT @chx1975: WordPress is now approximately where Drupal was around Drupal 5 w/ content types. See you in 2015.
Ouch. Okay, so we’re late to the game where custom content types are concerned. But I doubt it will take us until 2015 to catch up.
\nBut Dries is even-handed, and calls fair game when someone retorts in favor of WordPress:
\n\nAgreed, and fair enough. RT @newoceans_en: @Dries Drupal 7 will hopefully be where Wordpress was around 5 years ago regarding UX.
I haven’t had a chance to look at the Drupal 7 user interface yet, so I can’t say if that’s a fair comparison or hyperbole. But, I suspect that five years of catching up is another exaggeration. But these two statements do highlight one difference between where each project has focussed their attention over the years: Drupal has essentially been building a robust content management framework, and is working towards usability. WordPress started with ease-of-use and is becoming a more capable content framework.
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\n\nWordPress has long been known as a dedicated blogging platform, giving users the tools they need to publish their message and interact with readers. However, with the official release of version 3.0, set to drop this month, the platform will be much closer, if not well within the territory of a content management system (CMS).
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\nHere are a few plugins that I think deserve more attention. These will probably be more useful to power-users who really want to tweak their WordPress site, but I encourage everyone to get their hands dirty every once and a while and get creative with their installs. Unless otherwise noted, these should work with with both WordPress 2.92 and WordPress 3.0.
\n\nThis gives every widget an extra field in which you can specify WP’s conditional tags. What this means is that you can have certain widgets appear on certain pages but not others. For example, I have my blogroll set to only appear on my front page.
\n\nThis plugin can automatically add alt text to any image that doesn’t have one already. You can use the post title or the name of the image. This is great if you have a blog with lots of images that were never properly tagged and you don’t have time to go through and change them all by hand. It can also override WordPress’s default alt text – this would be useful if you have a group blog where one or more contributors frequently neglects to put any sort of alt text into their images.
\n\nI’ve only recently discovered this plugin, and I’m totally in love with it. It lets you sticky or order posts within a tag or category. I’m experimenting with using this plugin to sticky “portal” or “best of” posts to the top of certain tag archives.
\n\nThis is an amazing plugin that lets you have different domains, titles, and taglines for the same WordPress install. If for some reason you don’t want to use redirects, you can use this plugin to host mirror sites from the same install. You can see it in action on the plugin authors pages lightpainting.org and mcaleavy.org.
\n\nPlatinum SEO Pack and All-in-One SEO Pack usually get all the attention, but Headspace2 is worth some special attention. It gives you far more (possibly too much) control over your WordPress site’s title and meta-description tags. Some users will find it overkill. I like it because it lets me set descriptions for category and tag pages. Note: This doesn’t seem to work with WordPress 3.0 yet.
\nAll security plugins
\nI also think pretty much all WordPress security plugins are underrated, which is why I’ve been covering that subject.
\nWhat plugins do YOU think are underrated?
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\nWhile on the blog’s front-end, WordPress makes it super-easy with its conditional tags.
\nI’m not going to go over the conditional tags here, but here are a few you can take advantage of:
\n\nWhile being selective on the front-end is relatively straightforward, the admin-panel is another monster.
\nSure, there’s the is_admin() conditional, but what if you only want to run a script in a certain section within the admin panel?
\nOne technique is to use the PHP reserved variable called $_GET.
\nSay you have a plugin options page with a URL of:
\n\n\nhttp://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=my-plugin-file.php
You can use the $_GET variable to capture the page and run a conditional to determine if the page is yours.
\n\n\n\n<?php\nif (isset($_GET[\'page\'])) { \n if ($_GET[\'page\'] == \"my-plugin-file.php\") {\n /*load your scripts here */\n }\n}\n?>\n\n
If there are no variables to capture, you may have to use the reserved variable $_SERVER to capture the page name. From there, you would use a conditional or a switch statement.
\n\n\n\n<?php\nswitch (basename($_SERVER[\'SCRIPT_FILENAME\'])) {\n case \"edit-comments.php\":\n /*load scripts here*/\n break;\n case \"upload.php\":\n /*load other scripts here*/\n break;\n default:\n break;\n}\n?>\n\n
For a WordPress plugin I modified (WP Grins Lite – I’m not the original author), I wanted to include the JavaScript file only on specific pages.
\nIn the admin panel, I wanted the script to load when adding/editing posts and pages, and when editing a comment.
\nOn a post, I wanted the script to load only on posts and pages. To make things interesting, I also wanted to only load the script if comments were open.
\n\n\n\n<?php\nfunction add_scripts(){\n global $post;\n if (is_admin()) {\n switch (basename($_SERVER[\'SCRIPT_FILENAME\'])) {\n case \"post.php\":\n case \"post-new.php\":\n case \"page.php\":\n case \"page-new\":\n case \"comment.php\":\n break;\n default:\n return;\n }\n } else if ((!is_single() && !is_page()) || \'closed\' == $post->comment_status) {\n return;\n } \n wp_enqueue_script(\'wp_grins_lite\', plugins_url(\'wp-grins-lite\') . \'/js/wp-grins.js\', array(\"jquery\"), 1.0); \n wp_localize_script( \'wp_grins_lite\', \'wpgrinslite\', $this->get_js_vars());\n}\n?>\n\n
And there you have it. Page detection in a nutshell.
\nThis article is an excerpt from Ronald Huereca’s e-book entitled WordPress and Ajax (used with permission).
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\nLocalizing a plugin or theme is relatively straightforward, but JavaScript presents its own difficulties since we can’t easily call the PHP functions necessary (which is one reason authors embed JavaScript in PHP files).
\nSince embedding JavaScript in PHP files is never a good technique, we use localization to save the day.
\nWith JavaScript localization, you can use PHP magic to build your localized strings, and then use JavaScript to read/parse those strings. What you do with them is only limited to your imagination.
\nFurthermore, if you display anything with JavaScript, chances are your users will want the strings to be localized.
\nFortunately, WordPress provides the ultra-handy wp_localize_script function.
\nThe wp_localize_script takes three arguments:
\nThe handle argument will be the same handle you use for your script name.
\nFor example, if you have a handle of my_script, you would use the same name when calling the wp_localize_script function.
The object_name argument is a string that tells WordPress to create a JavaScript object using the name you specify.
\nIt’s important that the string you pass is as unique as possible in order to minimize naming conflicts with other scripts.
\nFor the upcoming example, our object name will be my_unique_name.
\nThe l10n argument is an array of strings you would like to localize.
\nWithin this array, you will want to take advantage of the __ function.
For the purpose of this example, let’s create a function called localize_vars and have it return an array.
\n\n\n\n<?php\nfunction localize_vars() {\n return array(\n \'SiteUrl\' => get_bloginfo(\'url\'),\n \'OtherText\' => __(\'my text\', \"my_localization_name\")\n );\n} //End localize_vars\n?>\n\n
Please note the use of the __() function. It takes in the text we want to localize, and our localization name. This will be the same name you use if you take advantage of localization within WordPress.
\nThe variable SiteURL gives us the http path to our WordPress site, which comes in handy in certain situations.
\nFrom another area in our code, we call the localize_vars function:
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WordPress then conveniently adds localization JavaScript immediately before our main script is included. Viewing the page source will reveal:
\n\n\n\n/* <![CDATA[ */\n my_unique_name = {\n SiteUrl: \"http://www.mydomain.com\",\n OtherText: \"my localized text\"\n }\n/* ]]> */\n</script>\n<script type=\'text/javascript\' src=\'http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/my_plugin/my_script.js?ver=1.0.0\'></script>\n\n
With the localize example, you can use PHP magic to add just about anything to your localization object. Hence, no need to ever embed JavaScript within a PHP file.
\nNow you can call your localized JavaScript variables from your my_script.js file. Here’s an example of an alert:
\n\n\n\nalert(my_unique_name.SiteUrl);\nalert(my_unique_name.OtherText);\n\n
It’s really as easy as that. You can now localize JavaScript strings.
\nWhile the wp_localize_script function does great work, it has one inherent flaw: each localized string is on a new line. For plugins that require a lot of localized strings, the size of the page source can easily balloon to unacceptable levels.
\nTo remedy this, we can use two additional localization techniques: one uses JSON, and the other is a custom function.
\nThe JSON Technique uses WordPress’ built-in JSON class in order to parse our localized variables.
\nWe would use the same localize_vars function, but would modify the way we queue our scripts.
\nFirst, let’s create a helper function that will instantiate the JSON class and spit out our localized variables to screen.
\n\n\n\n<?php\nfunction js_localize($name, $vars) {\n ?>\n <script type=\'text/javascript\'>\n /* <![CDATA[ */\n var <?php echo $name; ?> = \n <?php \n require_once(ABSPATH . \'/wp-includes/class-json.php\');\n $wp_json = new Services_JSON();\n echo stripslashes($wp_json->encodeUnsafe($vars)); \n ?>;\n /* ]]> */\n </script>\n<?php\n}\n?>\n\n
The js_localize function takes in a $name (our object name) and an array of our localized variables ($vars).
\nThe function then instantiates the JSON class and encodes the variables for output.
\nHere’s how the code would look when queueing up your scripts:
\n\n\n\n<?php \njs_localize(\'my_unique_name\', localize_vars());\nwp_enqueue_script(\'my_script\', plugins_url(\'your-plugin-name\') . \'/my_script.js\', array(\'jquery\'), \'1.0.0\');\n?>\n\n
Please note that the js_localize function is run before the script is queued.
\nWhile this technique does eliminate the newlines and creates cleaner source code, it does have one major flaw. It doesn’t work for all languages.
\nFor example, the Turkish language causes the above technique to crash and burn.
\nHowever, if you don’t plan on having additional languages and want localization purely for the ability to access the JavaScript variables, then I would recommend this technique.
\nFor those wanting to eliminate the newlines caused by wp_localize_scripts, and still have the ability to handle complex languages, then a custom function will have to suffice.
\nWe’ll use the same exact code to queue our scripts, but the js_localize function will change a bit.
\nMy technique is to iterate through the localized variables, save them to an array, and output the array to screen.
\n\n\n\n<?php\nfunction js_localize($name, $vars) {\n $data = \"var $name = {\";\n $arr = array();\n foreach ($vars as $key => $value) {\n $arr[count($arr)] = $key . \" : \'\" . esc_js($value) . \"\'\";\n }\n $data .= implode(\",\",$arr);\n $data .= \"};\";\n echo \"<script type=\'text/javascript\'>\\n\";\n echo \"/* <![CDATA[ */\\n\";\n echo $data;\n echo \"\\n/* ]]> */\\n\";\n echo \"</script>\\n\";\n}\n?>\n\n
It might not be the most poetic thing you’ve ever seen, but it works pretty well, even for those complex languages.
\nWithin this article you learned the how and the why of JavaScript localization.
\nThe benefits of localizing your JavaScript are:
\nYou also learned three different techniques to achieve localization.
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While I was running around WordCamp San Francisco 2010 getting ready for the keynote, guest photographer Sheri Bigelow had my D3S and was snapping all around. Here are the photos from that day.
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\nBefore that, it was every plugin or theme author for himself. If you wanted to add in a script, it was hard-coded in.
\nAs you might imagine, this presented a ton of problems. Scripts were loaded twice, out of order, or even when they weren’t needed at all.
\nFurthermore, some themes and plugins had the JavaScript embedded within the plugin’s or theme’s PHP file just to capture a few PHP variables. Not good! In order to add scripts properly to JavaScript, you must always keep your PHP and JavaScript separate. And by separate, I mean separate files. There’s just no excuse anymore (I’ll get into this in Part 2 of this series).
\nThe wp_enqueue_script function is the first step in loading your scripts properly. Not only can you add your script, but you can also specify the dependencies (e.g., jQuery), and the version number.
\nThis prevents duplicate JavaScript files from loading, which is always a good thing.
\nAside from the excellent documentation from WordPress, you’ll find my regurgitated version below (gross, I know).
\nThe function wp_enqueue_script takes in five arguments, with the last four being optional.
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The handle argument is a string that names your script, or references someone else’s.
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Likewise, if you have previously registered your script (using wp_register_script), you can call your script by calling:
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The src argument is asking for the URL of the file. If you supply the src of the script, the wp_enqueue_script function automatically registers your script for others to use (no need to use wp_register_script).
\nAn example of it in use is:
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Themers would use:
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The deps argument is an array of dependencies. For example, if your script requires jQuery or other JavaScript files, it’ll load these files before your plugin’s JavaScript file.
\nHere’s an example:
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See that array up there (it’s pretty, I know)? That’s what’s calling your dependencies.
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\nThe another_script dependency assumes you have already used wp_enqueue_script to assign it a handle and a src.
\nThe outcome in this scenario is that jQuery and another_script will load before my_script.
\nThe ver argument is simply the version of the JavaScript file for caching purposes. If you are supplying your own script, it’s a good idea to supply a version.
\nThe version is string based and looks like this:
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As you update your JavaScript file, update the ver argument. If you don’t, you’ll inevitably run into caching issues with WordPress.
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\nTo load your script in the footer, simply pass it a 1 (or true).
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Great care should be used when setting the scripts to load in the footer as some themes do not have this functionality built in (the theme must make use of the wp_footer function call).
\nOne last thing (err, warning?) to take note of is naming your handler for wp_enqueue_script. If you are using a third-party script (say, Colorbox), use common sense in naming the handler. There’s no reason to name it “lightbox” or “mybox”. The handler name should be obvious, right?
\nThe same goes for the built-in scripts with WordPress.
\nFor example, the handler ‘jquery’ is built-in. Do you want to supply your own version of jQuery?
\nHow about ruin everybody’s day and give it a handler of ‘jquery.js’? The result will inevitably be two jQuery instances loading on the same page and causing mayhem with other scripts.
\nInstead, use the function wp_deregister_script to remove the WordPress reference and supply your own.
\n\n\n\n<?php\nwp_deregister_script(array(\'jquery\'));\nwp_enqueue_script(\'jquery\', \'your-jquery-path.js\');\n?>\n\n
With this technique, however, you should have a pretty darn good reason for not including the default scripts. After all, you’ll essentially be running a piece of software that may not be fully tested and/or compatible with WordPress.
\nYou have to call wp_enqueue_script from the appropriate hook in WordPress.
\nFortunately, WordPress has two such action hooks you can tap into: admin_print_scripts and wp_print_scripts.
\nThe admin_print_scripts hook allows you to add scripts in the admin panel, while the wp_print_scripts hook allows you to add scripts everywhere else.
\nAdding your wp_enqueue_script code is as simple as adding an action inside your plugin or theme code.
\nAn example of the code being used inside of a class constructor is:
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And for those not using a class (classes help avoid conflicts with other plugins):
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For the above example, we have a callback method of add_admin_scripts. An example of it in use is:
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Here are the steps you should follow in order to add scripts to a WordPress theme or plugin:
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\nSophie: Um, duh. We’re in an advanced computer programming class. We’re all computer nerds.
\nProfessor: Now, now. Sophie’s correct; talking to community members and mentors will improve her chances. But, Jack, there’s no reason you can’t join the IRC chats and the mailing list to get your name out there, too, even if you submit your application today. Most proposals get tweaked a bit after the students are chosen anyway.
\nSophie: Plus, Felicia Day is awesome! And she uses WordPress, so ha!
\nEnd Act II.
\nHere’s the deal. The application period opens today. Early applications will likely get a bit more attention up front, but it’s also important that your ideas and approach are vetted by the community and the mentors. If you haven’t already, you should join the wp-hackers mailing list and send your proposal to the list for feedback. We’ll also be doing a few IRC chats during the application period to give students a chance to talk directly with the mentors. Note that not every mentor will attend all three chats, so if you want to talk to a specific person, you might want to email them. Please arrive on time to the chats, as they will be scheduled for an hour, and will have to accommodate multiple students. IRC chats will be held at irc.freenode.net in room #wordpress-gsoc.
\nThis chat room will remain open during the application period, and various mentors and community members may be there and able to answer questions, but the scheduled chats are the only official times at which they are scheduled to do so.
\nOh, and if you want to help publicize the WordPress summer of code, grab a flyer and post it somewhere on a bulletin board at your local college campus. Professors, don’t forget to encourage your brightest students to apply!
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\nProfessor: I think you’re right, Andrea. Tell you kids what. They announce the students who’ve been accepted on April 26th, which is before the semester ends. Let’s turn this into a class project.
\nJack (raising a suspicious eyebrow): How do you mean?
\nProfessor: As a class assignment, everyone has one week to write a project proposal for the Google Summer of Code, specific to the WordPress project. The proposals will be graded like a regular assignment. Anyone who gets an A on the proposal can use me as a reference if they apply with the proposal to WordPress and Google for the program. The application deadline is April 9, so you’ll have time to revise your application after it’s been graded.
\nSophie: What’s in it for us?
\nAndrea: If you’re successful in GSoC you earn $5000 for the summer.
\nSophie (smirking, to Jack): That’s more than you’ll make working the hot dog cart by City Hall.
\nJack: You wish. I’m totally getting in, and you’ll be on the hot dog cart this year.
\nProfessor: And as I was starting to say in the first place, a GSoC project would qualify for independent study credit. Tell you what, as an added bonus, anyone who actually gets accepted into the WordPress GSoC program will get extra credit points on their year end average.
\nSophie (perking up): Really? I’m in!
\nJack: No way, they’ll choose me first!
\nStay tuned for the continuing adventures of Jack and Sophie as they navigate the course of applying to Google Summer of Code to work with WordPress.
\nThat’s right, WordPress is honored to be among the 150 open source organizations chosen to participate in Google Summer of Code this year. Students work on WordPress projects over the summer under the guidance of mentors from among the WordPress core developers, and if they complete their projects successfully Google pays them $5000! Talk about a win-win. Last year’s projects led to some very cool code being created, like the new search API targeted for version 3.0 and the Elastic theme generator.
\nProfessors: Help us and your students by telling them about GSoC and encouraging them to apply. Consider having them write a WordPress plugin or core patch as a class assignment so they can get to know the codebase. Offer to sign on as an adviser for a summer independent study so they can get credit for their work with GSoC.
\nStudents: Check out our Ideas page, and start thinking about projects you’d like to propose. Watch this space for an announcement of some live chat information sessions where you can ask potential mentors questions and get feedback on your pre-proposal ideas. This program is competitive, but is one of the best opportunities out there when it comes to programming. You get real-world experience as a member of an open source community, you make decent money, you make connections with industry leaders, and you get the attention of Google. Not to mention some serious bragging rights. What are you waiting for? Applications will be accepted from March 29-April 9, so start thinking about a project now!
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This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and developers are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we’re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there’s a place for us all to get together.
If you’re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen to be in Austin), please join us for lunch after 12pm* tomorrow, Sunday March 14. We’re getting the BBQ from Rudy’s and the red velvet cake from Central Market. Yum! Come, eat, talk about the cool things you’re doing with WordPress, let us know what we can do better, gossip about Mark Jaquith’s new hairstyle, whatever. Think of it like a WordCamp without presentations. I’ll be there, lead developers Mark Jaquith and Ryan Boren will be there, core contributors will be there, plugin and theme developers will be there, and basically all the most intelligent and attractive people from SxSW will be there. You should be, too!
\nLocation: Conjunctured coworking space, 1309 East 7th St., Austin, TX 78702. From the convention center, walk up to 7th Street, hang a right, and walk until you get to #1309. If you’re tired of walking, taking a cab is a decent option. Note that this is on the other side of I-35 from the convention center.
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