Thematic

A WordPress theme framework. This free WordPress theme is an ideal starting point for WordPress development projects. It has support for many popular WordPress plugins and many other interesting features, including an extensive backend.

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WordPress 2.6 allows you to move your wp-content and wp-config.php outside the root, which means a code change for plugins that require these. In What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6, Ozh provides plugin authors with code to guess the path of wp-content and wp-config.php.

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StumbleUpon Favorites

StumbleUpon Favorites is a widget based on the default RSS widget that was developed to allow the sharing of bookmarks with blog visitors. This plugin makes it much easier to use and customize the list grabbed from your own StumbleUpon account.

Automated Picture Posting Plugin

PICS (Picture Increment Cron System) is a WordPress Plugin designed to allow you to automatically post pictures to your WordPress blog at a administrator determined timed interval.

WP Wall

“Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page).

Live Blogroll

This plugin shows a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax. When the user hover above the link the rss feed from the site is automatically detected and a number of recent posts is shown dynamically in a box.

WordPreciousss

WordPreciousss extends the theme functionality in WordPress and actually creates a theme framework on your site - having a global set of templates, so all themes can basicly be CSS only if you like. WordPreciousss also gives you the opportunity to add template files to Child Themes, so you’re not limited to using only style.css and functions.php.

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StumbleUpon Favorites

StumbleUpon Favorites is a widget based on the default RSS widget that was developed to allow the sharing of bookmarks with blog visitors. This plugin makes it much easier to use and customize the list grabbed from your own StumbleUpon account.

Automated Picture Posting Plugin

PICS (Picture Increment Cron System) is a WordPress Plugin designed to allow you to automatically post pictures to your WordPress blog at a administrator determined timed interval.

WP Wall

“Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page).

Live Blogroll

This plugin shows a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax. When the user hover above the link the rss feed from the site is automatically detected and a number of recent posts is shown dynamically in a box.

WordPreciousss

WordPreciousss extends the theme functionality in WordPress and actually creates a theme framework on your site - having a global set of templates, so all themes can basicly be CSS only if you like. WordPreciousss also gives you the opportunity to add template files to Child Themes, so you’re not limited to using only style.css and functions.php.

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Google Gears has been enabled on WordPress.com for a couple of weeks now for some members, but was only announced this week. Andrew Ozz (azaozz) added this feature a couple of month ago in the development version of self-hosted WordPress. I’ve been using it for about a month, and even though I have a  decent internet connect (15156 kbps measured), I really notice how quick Gears makes the visual editor’s Insert Link popup pop. Over all, it feels a little quicker.

Reading some of the comments there is some confusion about whether this allows an offline mode of WordPress and also about the privacy of using this Google browser add-on.

People wonder if Gears will allow them to use the WordPress Dashboard to write posts while offline. We’re not quite there yet. Gears for WordPress 2.6 (coming soon!) uses Gear’s LocalServer API which basically is a persistent, smart cache allowing the static files to always be loaded from your local computer — turbo!

That takes me to the second concern I see in the blog posts and comments about this feature, specifically on the Weblog Tools Collection post. Some people are really concerned with the privacy of Gears. Understandably, they are leery of providing Google even more personal data. Gears isn’t a web service. It only talks to the mother ship to check for updates, unless you allow anonymous usage statistics:

• Your copy of Gears includes a unique application number. The unique application number and information about your installation of Gears (e.g., version number, language) will be sent to Google when Gears automatically checks for updates.
• If you choose to enable Usage Statistics for Gears, it allows Gears to send crash reports and to collect a limited amount of non-personal information about your use of Gears and send it to Google.
• If you use Gears for Mobile, we may collect certain information such as your device and hardware IDs and device type, the browser type, the request type, your carrier, your carrier user ID, and the content of your request, which does not by itself identify you to Google, though it may be unique or consist of or contain information that you consider personal.

If you still are concerned about the privacy of Gears, here are two more reasons to have confidence: open source and Brad Neuberg. Gears is open source. This means that anyone can pop the hood and scrutinize the code — and people do. A very highly regarded open source developer Brad Neuberg is very involved in Gears. He is a leader in web development, open source, and collaborative development. He’s a person that I admire greatly.

Wrapping this up. There is no WordPress dependency on Gears. It’s an optional browser plugin that can make for a faster experience. If you choose to use it, you should feel confident in your privacy.

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Hot off the news that 37signals is removing support for IE6 in their products I thought it would be interesting to look at the stats from WordPress.com as an update to my previous post just under a year ago. Is it reasonable to drop support for IE6 in a mainstream app?

These stats cover Jan 1 - Jun 30: 787 million “absolute unique” visitors, 1.6 billion visits, and 3.3 billion pageviews. I feel these numbers are large enough and WordPress.com-hosted blogs diverse enough to be fairly representative. All the numbers come from Google Analytics. In parentheses I’ve put the delta from the last time I blogged these stats.

1. 59.41% - Internet Explorer (down 3.05%), sub-breakdown:
   1. 53.42% - Version 7.0 (up 18.25%)
   2. 46.28% - Version 6.0 (down 17.82%)
   3. 0.14% - Version 5.5 (down 0.14%)
2. 32.82% - Firefox (up 2.08%)
3. 4.81% - Safari (up 0.98%)
4. 2.04% - Opera (up 0.26%)
5. 0.41% - Mozilla (down 0.11%)

The operating system breakdown:

1. 89.41% - Windows (down 0.95%)
2. 7.86% - Macintosh (up 1.13%)
3. 1.82% - Linux (down 0.37%)
4. 0.17% - iPhone (out of nowhere!)
5. 0.10% - PlayStation Portable (up 0.07%)

So as you can see, IE6 users account for about 27% of all the visits we saw. If I were building something for “the internet” IE6 compatibility would still very much be on my radar. Everyone’s users or customers are different, and if I saw IE6 falling below 10% on one of my sites I’d probably very seriously consider what 37signals is doing.

The good news is most trends are going in the right direction: strong growth of Firefox, IE7, and Macintosh, and the iPhone came out of nowhere to generate 2.6 million visits (and another 1.1 million from the iTouch).

Happy July 4th!

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