Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from WordPress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.

Yoast Breadcrumbs

This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.

Lijit Search

The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network.

Movie Quotes Widget

Wordpress Widget will take the latest, random or top rated quotes from this website, and display them on your blog

Share This

This plugin will allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin

With the FTP Plugin for the WP Database Backup Plugin you can perform manual or scheduled database backups and send the backup files via FTP to another server with more or maybe cheaper disk space.

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Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from WordPress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.

Yoast Breadcrumbs

This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.

Lijit Search

The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network.

Movie Quotes Widget

Wordpress Widget will take the latest, random or top rated quotes from this website, and display them on your blog

Share This

This plugin will allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin

With the FTP Plugin for the WP Database Backup Plugin you can perform manual or scheduled database backups and send the backup files via FTP to another server with more or maybe cheaper disk space.

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Humidor by designer Evan Eckard is different kind of a theme. It’s a single column theme (all 820px of em) with a 3 column bottom bar. The styling is unique, however, it requires a little bit of work to customize the theme for your site. The header image changes depending on the page type, which brings us to one more issue, the lack of page tabs. Outside of that, the theme is original and well styled. A good layout for redesign and if you are the theme tinkering type, this theme is for you. Check it out!

Links: Demo | Theme URI

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A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.

Brown Stitch

2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.

Notepad Chaos

The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins.

WhiteWash

A fast loading theme without distractions, images and cluttering. WhiteWash is easy to customize and it’s ideal for users who don’t want a blog with many colors or stuffed with features. Because of the wide spaces, this Theme is easy to read. Image-styling, when a picture is linked with a larger image or URL, there’s a nice hover-effect.

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A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.

Brown Stitch

2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.

Notepad Chaos

The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins.

WhiteWash

A fast loading theme without distractions, images and cluttering. WhiteWash is easy to customize and it’s ideal for users who don’t want a blog with many colors or stuffed with features. Because of the wide spaces, this Theme is easy to read. Image-styling, when a picture is linked with a larger image or URL, there’s a nice hover-effect.

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There are a couple of things immediately apparent from David’s tweat:

1. He has never exported a blog from TypePad
2. He has never written a blog exporter using AtomPub

Never exported a blog from TypePad

I know this because I’ve done numerous TypePad exports and also working through my customers trying to get support from Six Apart in the export. For most TypePad blogs, it’s impossible to truly export the blog. Six Apart provides no tools or documentation on how to export in a way that preserves the permalinks, and because of a bug in TypePad and an unpublished permalink creation rules that have changed over the years, it guarantees a tedious, manual process to truly export the blog.

About a year ago, I approached members of the Six Apart leadership team in the hopes that they would commit to fix this issue. I was really nice back then and the whole time until recently. Now, I’ve concluded they were playing games.

Six Apart CEO Christopher Alden’s even promised “A Bright New TypePad in 2008“, “TypePad is the only blogging service that gives you complete ownership of your blog”. Appreciate the humor of that? You are trapped on TypePad.

Chris, and all the leadership team will wave their hands, “AtomPub is the answer.”

Never written a blog exporter using AtomPub

Having tried to guide Ronald Heft Jr in creating AtomPub exporters for TypePad and Movable Type, my only conclusion is that no member of Six Apart has a blog exporter using AtomPub.

Six Apart VP Anil Dash likes to brag about them having helped create Atom and AtomPub. An exporter would have been one of the perfect real world applications to create as part of the creation of the specification. And wouldn’t you think if they were going to tell everyone that is the solution to exporting from TypePad that they would have built such an exporter? They couldn’t have because you can’t without hacking around AtomPub, a lot, which is what Ronald has done.

Then as we had it working, hacks and all, this past weekend, TypePad changed it fixing one aspect of their AtomPub (drafts are identified), changing a few things that we can adjust to (changed the URL endpoints, switched to MT tag names for consistentency), but also breaking our importer:

• Can no longer retrieve comments on posts.
• No longer contains Pages.
• XML-RPC for trackback retrieval broke.

These issues have been reported to Six Apart and hopefully they will be fixed soon, but there is absolutely zero transparency. There is no way for us to check on the status of these issues.  Wouldn’t you expect the changes to be documented on the “The Official Everything TypePad weblog” and mentioned on “Six Apart Status“?

I cringe to think of the mess it would have been if we had already included the TypePad AtomPub importer in a release.

It seems that independent developers are left out in the cold.

The open web starts at home

Although, I’m excited by the work Ronald is doing, should it really be necessary for TypePad customers to come to the WordPress community to export their blogs?

I’m reminded of Dave Winer’s excellent article “How to do data portability” which includes “The best way to achieve data portability is to just do it”. That article really moved me, data portability, and by extension the open web, starts at your own company, on your own product.

How much longer do TypePad customers have to wait before they can export their blog?

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We’re looking for one permanent blogger to write one article, review, or tutorial a week, and a few guest bloggers to write on the site from time to time. Payment options can be negotiated with the permanent blogger, and $50 USD awaits those authors who come out on the other size of the deep dark tunnel of intense review (which basically means that we’ll review your article and if we like it, you get money). If you’re interested, please e-mail us at hey@wpcandy.com.

We’re also looking for a WordPress developer or two to help us out with an upcoming project. You’ll need to be able to code valid XHTML and CSS and create a WordPress theme in a few days time. Any PHP and JavaScript knowledge - especially jQuery - is certainly welcome. You’ll need to be available for a good portion of the day, so while we aren’t particularly interested in students, if you can balance your studies with WordPress development, go for it. Again, e-mail hey@wpcandy.com if interested.

Thanks!

- The WPCandy Team

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So, does your WordPress theme have breadcrumbs built into it?   Whenever I’m picking a new WordPress theme to start designing a new site with, breadcrumbs are one of the first things I always look for.  With the exception of Brian’s Revolution themes, I’ve found that there really aren’t many (if any) other premium themes that come with breadcrumbs built into them (directly or via a WordPress plugin).  I also have yet to find any free WordPress themes that come with breadcrumbs built into them.

How to Add Breadcrumbs to Your WordPress Blog

Fortunately many WordPress plugin authors have come to our rescue.   For those of us that want breadcrumbs in our themes, there are now a number of WordPress plugins out there that you can use to easily accomplish this.   Probably the most popular is the Breadcrumb Navigation XT WordPress plugin, but I just noticed today that a new WordPress plugin was released by Joost de Valk called the Yoast Breadcrumbs plugin.    Joost has a great reputation as a plugin developer, so I have a feeling this plugin will work great as well.

If you decide to go with the Yoast Breadcrumbs plugin, you just need to upload and activate it, then place the following code where you want the breadcrumbs to display (usually above your post title or the content hook):

<?php if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) { yoast_breadcrumb(); } ?>

Then you can use the plugin settings to get the breadcrumbs to behave how you wanted it to.

Call to Theme Designers

Where is the breadcrumbs love?   If you are working on a new free or premium WordPress theme, why not take a few seconds to build breadcrumbs into your theme?

If you’d like to see breadcrumbs built into more Wordpress themes by default, leave a comment below so designers know there is a demand for it!

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And there’s still a month to go (entries close September 24th), so get your MU hats on and submit your best and brightest! The process is much the same as at Weblog Tools Collection. Plugin authors can register at the site and write up their own plugins for publication, guidelines and more on that can be found here. Then there will be prizes (and some rather snazzy badges) for judged and peoples choice winners and ranking entries.

If you’re interested in adding to the prize pool, Andrew and James would love to hear from you too - just send them an email.

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And there’s still a month to go (entries close September 24th), so get your MU hats on and submit your best and brightest! The process is much the same as at Weblog Tools Collection. Plugin authors can register at the site and write up their own plugins for publication, guidelines and more on that can be found here. Then there will be prizes (and some rather snazzy badges) for judged and peoples choice winners and ranking entries.

If you’re interested in adding to the prize pool, Andrew and James would love to hear from you too - just send them an email.

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ShareThis is a plugin that makes it easy for your visitors to share your content to other people or online destinations and social web sites. You can see it in action by clicking the ShareThis link at the bottom of any of the posts or pages on this site.

The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.

If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the ShareThis Support Forums and the team will be happy to help you out.

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ShareThis is a plugin that makes it easy for your visitors to share your content to other people or online destinations and social web sites. You can see it in action by clicking the ShareThis link at the bottom of any of the posts or pages on this site.

The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.

If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the ShareThis Support Forums and the team will be happy to help you out.

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Yesterday I was excited to discover that another designer has thrown his hat in the ring.   This time we’ve got Michael Hutagalung’s new Arthemia magazine WordPress theme, which was built to be an advanced version of his popular free Arthemia theme.

First, here are Arthemia’s features:

• Theme Admin Panel
• Choose a color for each category
• Drop-down menu
• Automatic thumbnail generation
• Widgetized sidebar and footer
• Ad banner management
• Gravatar-styled comments
• WordPress v2.5+ compatible
• Cross-Browser Compatible

And of course here are some screen shots for you to enjoy:

Arthemia Premium Homepage

Arthemia Premium Post Pages

In looking at the Arthemia theme, one thing that really jumps out at me is that it truly looks like a online magazine’s homepage would.   Many of the magazine themes you see (both free and premium) are coded to function like a magazine theme, but they still have a “blog” look to them.  This one has a very professional look.  I also like the 728×90 ad block prominently displayed across the top for readers to see in a prominently displayed position.

If you’re interested in the premium version of Arthemia, you can check out the Arthemia WordPress theme demo and/or purchase a copy.  It is currently available at the following prices: Single License ($70.00), Five Licenses ($140.00), or the Developer’s Pack ($240.00).

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This WordPress plugin allows you to generate a list of posts separated by category. You can choose to display all categories, or just those you select. Under each category heading, the posts are sorted by date, with the most recent first. Additionally, the date for each post is shown next to the link.

WordPress Theme Changer & Showcase Plugin

Plugin with a widget which enables us to change the theme of a blog without having to login to the administrator’s room first. This is just like allowing visitors to change the theme of the blog.

Gorsel Koru

If a site uses an image hosted on your site, a message you define, appears on it, i.e. prevents hotlinking of images. (Site in Turkish)

PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail

PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail displays a post thumbnail for posts with galleries. When paired with a JavaScript viewer, the full gallery can be displayed when the thumbnail is clicked. PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail requires PhotoJAR: Base.

AVH Amazon

AVH Amazon plugin give you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display a random item from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. In the plugin reference is made to Wishlist only but you can use your Baby Registry ID or Wedding Registry ID as well.

Liz Strauss Comment Counter

Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable badge (very similar to the Feedburner one, except it’s more configurable) to show off the number of comments your blog has.

Most Popular Posts

This is a very simple widget that displays a link to the top commented posts on your blog.

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This WordPress plugin allows you to generate a list of posts separated by category. You can choose to display all categories, or just those you select. Under each category heading, the posts are sorted by date, with the most recent first. Additionally, the date for each post is shown next to the link.

WordPress Theme Changer & Showcase Plugin

Plugin with a widget which enables us to change the theme of a blog without having to login to the administrator’s room first. This is just like allowing visitors to change the theme of the blog.

Gorsel Koru

If a site uses an image hosted on your site, a message you define, appears on it, i.e. prevents hotlinking of images. (Site in Turkish)

PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail

PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail displays a post thumbnail for posts with galleries. When paired with a JavaScript viewer, the full gallery can be displayed when the thumbnail is clicked. PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail requires PhotoJAR: Base.

AVH Amazon

AVH Amazon plugin give you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display a random item from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. In the plugin reference is made to Wishlist only but you can use your Baby Registry ID or Wedding Registry ID as well.

Liz Strauss Comment Counter

Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable badge (very similar to the Feedburner one, except it’s more configurable) to show off the number of comments your blog has.

Most Popular Posts

This is a very simple widget that displays a link to the top commented posts on your blog.

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• Page navigation (’Newer Posts’, ‘Older Posts’) for archives
• ‘template_directory’ and ‘url’ tags in header.php for copy/paste
• Basic post structure (’post’ DIV, title in <h2>, content tag)

For the full run-down of the purpose of this theme, visit the WordPress Starter Theme Project post.

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If I wasn’t clear my video really is in no way a comment of the MT Pro product — I’ve never tried it. All the Six Apart teams are clearly very talented, so I’m sure it’s a great product. Though I’m pretty sure it won’t live up to “setting social networking free”.

Let’s break it down:

focus more on telling a story

People that know me, know that I’m all about the story that a product tells, and I think their video failed in the very way that he thinks they succeeded. I didn’t see a compelling story about the experience of Movable Type Pro. As my voice-over reflects, I saw a story that looked like any blogging platform and comments.

Both of us are extremely biased at opposites ends of the spectrum, so neither of us will get it right on this one. I would love to know the results of a diverse group of people each separately watching the video and sharing their reactions.

Honestly, we assume that that everyone else on the web will respond by copying great ideas, as they usually do. Hell, we want them to, so that more people can benefit from open communities on the web.

If you are familiar with Anil’s writing, you may end up with the conclusion, like I have, that he is actually obsessed with being first — or that is one of the SIx Apart key messages anyway. Maybe, it all started because he was Six Apart’s first employee. Check out the Movable Type blog, “A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide” [sic] article for a bit of a taste. If you enjoy the flavor, a Google search will lead you across the Web.

Of any software spaces, blogging is one of the richest for borrowing from each other and providing a consistent experience to customers — everyone benefits from this! I’d like to think WordPress has had as many firsts as any blogging platform, but even if that isn’t the case, I’m much more interested in focusing on doing it well. An example is the TypePad iPhone app was an iPhone launch partner, but the WordPress iPhone app is much more popular, has more reviews, and is higher rated, and we are still busy fixing and improving it.

Until then, they’ve created a parody of our video.

So me spending a couple hours playing around with iMovie in my own time (my 1st time using it), somehow becomes the Automattic answer to MT Pro?! And as I mentioned, no link love, no mention of my name (Lloyd Budd) — very, very bad blogger etiquette. Is iMovie that good that Anil thinks it’s a first rate production? I don’t think so, listening to it again, it is clearly the crap job that I remember doing for my own amusement.

without having your it look like another Facebook or MySpace clone

Did I voice-over the wrong video? I’m pretty sure it was their video that started with Digg, Facebook and MySpace. I might have misspoke, but I thought it would be obvious that I was referring to having social features beyond commenting like those platforms.

Our long-held reputation for publishing highly scalable, “Digg-proof” pages.

That is one of Anil’s favorite sound bites. I know Anil can’t seriously be suggesting that a file based “cache” is a whole solution to being highly scalable.

The funny part is that substitute in WordPress and you have at least an equally true assertion, ‘[WordPress's] long-held reputation for publishing highly scalable, “Digg-proof” pages.’ The reason why this sometimes looks not to be true is because of WordPress’s popularity.

I would bet, with no hesitation, that WordPress sites are far more often dugg, and that unfortunately some of those sites dugg, like my own, are on inexpensive, shared hosted environments that aren’t Digg ready.

For most WordPress customers the dynamic, responsive experience is far more important than “Digg-proof”, but for those that do want to prepare for a digg storm, there are high quality plugins like Super Cache and Batcache and many others that suit your specific configuration and needs.

There is no question that WordPress is scalable, fact is WordPress powers far more of the web than Movable Type, both in terms of web pages served and web sites. Fact is Movable Type doesn’t even power Six Apart’s hosted TypePad, and to my great frustration is incompatible in numerous ways — wonder why there is no Movable Type app for iPhone anyone?

remedy some of the missing features in WordPress if you have enough free time to find the appropriate plugins

Talking out the other side of his face, Anil will point out Movable Type’s rich plugin and theme collection. I’m pretty sure, Pro has even been presented as plugins built on top of MT at one time — bundling.

Of course, there is a huge collection, much larger, of WordPress plugins and themes, and I haven’t heard complaints that it’s hard to find the appropriate plugin. The wordpress.org/extend/plugins gives you information about popularity, and the interface will continue to evolve.

This past weekend, during Matt’s “State of the Word” at WordCamp SF 2008 (video will be online soon!), spoke to how that experience will change and how the actually WordPress plugin usage data will directly help WordPress evolve, with top plugins are polished and integrated into WordPress.

prominent independent security researchers do warn, “[T]he abysmal security practices of WordPress plugin developers places the entire Internet at risk”.

Why pick on the plugin developers brother?

That’s on top of WordPress being one of top ten least secure applications around

Each of the most popular blogging and CMS made the list, as does Linux.

the Department of Homeland Security’s data showing WordPress having twelve times as many reported security vulnerabilities as Movable Type

Should I even touch this one? Since Anil discovered that Home Land Security site I think that has become his favorite. I think it’s more telling that the Department of Homeland Security, and many other US government offices use WordPress (conversation).

And Anil’s article is one of the worst security related articles I’ve ever read. No security expert, nor scientific minded person would sign their name on it with it’s broad, sloppy brush strokes.

There is shame. Security was part of Matt’s State the Word. I don’t know anyone in the WordPress community that is happy with our security history, but it’s getting better and so are our developers.

There is appropriate optimism. With each release I see more potential security issues being reviewed and, when genuine, fixed earlier in the release process. The foundation of WordPress is also being improved to make security mistakes more difficult.

No one justifies the security issues because of popularity, but the IBM’s paper does reflect with popularity comes scrutiny. The loudest message from the paper might be that the bad guys have moved their focus from Windows to open source and to the web.

It seems only in the last couple of years has web security come to the forefront of the industries collective mind, and we’re all learning a lot. All three “top ten”, WordPress, Drupal and Joomla are benefiting from each others improvements, and the larger PHP community is helping a lot.

If Movable Type was as popular, and under the same amount of scrutiny, I can’t imagine they would still be storing passwords as plain text.

I’m confident that WordPress’s security record will get better and better!

The great technology rests on top of world-class support, an incredibly talented professional services group, and a media services team that will help your site and your community succeed.

That last link there is a 404, and maybe that is meta irony there. All those links go to Six Apart services, as does one from earlier in Anil’s article “(We’ll even help you design it.)”.

This is probably the largest difference between Movable Type and WordPress. WordPress is community developed and support — world class.

I remember reading Anil’s comment on Josh Catone’s Read Write Web article “Six Apart Gets Into Microblogging with Activity Streams“. Here Anil didn’t like that WordPress Prologue — actually that’s a great example of someone not getting the idea, the story — but what bothered me was his attitude towards WordPress plugin developers:

There’s also an important distinction that this is a key part of our platform, developed by the core MT team itself. That means that it’s not a PHP script somebody cobbled together on their own to try to make a lifestream, it’s a framework to actually help open up *all* of these services

I read that as disrespectful to independent developers, WordPress or otherwise.

I see the Automattic team as the WordPress guide. WordPress is completely community created and supported. Automattic takes on the big (scalability) problems that the community doesn’t have the resources for like: providing the free WordPress.com service and fuding usability testing of a new WordPress dashboard experience.

We work with our community, not compete with our community. The work Automattic does is open source, released under the GPL.

Though the WordPress Consultants list, wp-pro and WP jobs are pretty good tools, currently, I expect much of the WordPress professionals’ work through personal relationships in the community. I think this is one of our greatest opportunities as a community. If you agree (blog about it) get in touch with Toni.

I mentioned that the work Automattic does is open source, whenever possible (Akismet is an exception). This isn’t the case with Six Apart’s Movable Type. I’ve written at length, “Movable Type 200% Open Source!“, about the missed opportunity.

With the release of Movable Type Pro, I think Six Apart’s current approach is bad for open source and actually dilutes open source. It seems others share my opinion, as on every thread there seems to be an open source advocate upset about MT Pro not being open source.

At first I was excited to see that the open source information was now on MovableType.com’s download page:

But then I realized the game this table plays is that the open source version isn’t good enough for “Bloggers”, only freetards like myself. I’m pretty sure, I’ve also read Six Apart telling people that the open source version isn’t tested or supported (but it’s the same software without some plugins, promise).

First, we set publishing free. Next up, social networks.

Actually, the WordPress community can take that first credit (not that I’m obsessed with 1sts) by creating the most popular installed blogging software, and it being open source. I don’t know about the next up, but there are many contenders, and WordPress and BuddyPress communities would be honored to be among them.

If I wanted to use Movable Type Pro for a social network with that Six Apart’s pricing it would probably be a social network of one. Anyway, without it being open source, it won’t be setting any one free, just making it a little easier to disobey the boss.

And that is why I think, Anil, people are so excited about BuddyPress, because it is among the real possibilities of setting social networking free.

our lead by planning to provide some of these abilities for WordPress in a collection of plugins that you should be able to assemble around Christmastime or so

There are so many reasons why I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Anil Dash has been pissing all over the web calling BuddyPress vaporware. See his comments at:

• CNET Webware “Movable Type, Wordpress becoming social platforms“
• Mashable, “Six Apart Provides Social Networking Capabilities with Movable Type Pro“

Where I come from, vaporware is a derogatory term. It’s clear that he doesn’t like WordPress BuddyPress being part of the conversation.

BuddyPress isn’t vaporware, a community is developing it today. You can download the code today. It is open source today!

I get emails and IMs from friends that have checked it out and are already grooving on where it is going.

Collection of plugins

That is just a packaging issue, and packaging issues are easy.

Christmastime or so

This coming from a key member of the team that made a press release seven months before the open source flavor of Movable Type — well over a year, if a public bug tracker is an important detail to you. The community will decide when the code is ready to be called a product.

Wow, this is way long. I’ll wrap it up here.

I didn’t find the Movable Type Pro introductory video well done or sincere, hence the parody. Am I really so bad for poking fun at the competition? Does the tension date back to Six Apart not being invited to the Blogger and WordPress dance off?

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While working on the TypePad and Movable Type AtomPub Exporters (still in progress), programmer Ronald Heft Jr had a problem interacting with the WSSE authentication both use. The problem ended up being in his own code, but it also led to some interesting observations about how the authentication works.

TypePad doesn’t require as secure code.

This is a good reminder that allowing programmers a less secure option, and they will likely take it because they trust you, and have other deadlines.

WSSE authentication is inheritantly insecure.

When Ronald looked in his Movable Type database he found that the passwords were stored in plain text. WordPress remote access development lead Joseph Scott explains that the only way to support WSSE is to store the passwords in plain text on the server, which is one of the reasons why WordPress won’t be supporting WSSE.

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<h2>Section Header</h2>

<?php plugin_template_tag_function(); ?>

Though the above code is absolutely right, PHP errors will occur if you disable the plugin and do not remove the template tag from the theme. There is a much better way of including template tags in your themes, which ensures that PHP errors do not occur when you disable plugins and do not remove them from your themes:

<?php if ( function_exists(’plugin_template_tag_function’) ) : ?>

<h2>Section Header</h2>

<?php plugin_template_tag_function(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

The if condition in the above code ensures that the function you want to use is registered, before the code is executed. This extra check will ensure that your theme will load without PHP errors, even if the plugin has been disabled.

If you are new to conditional statements, you can read one of our earlier post about if, then and else conditions.

Read it at the source

<h2>Section Header</h2>

<?php plugin_template_tag_function(); ?>

Though the above code is absolutely right, PHP errors will occur if you disable the plugin and do not remove the template tag from the theme. There is a much better way of including template tags in your themes, which ensures that PHP errors do not occur when you disable plugins and do not remove them from your themes:

<?php if ( function_exists(’plugin_template_tag_function’) ) : ?>

<h2>Section Header</h2>

<?php plugin_template_tag_function(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

The if condition in the above code ensures that the function you want to use is registered, before the code is executed. This extra check will ensure that your theme will load without PHP errors, even if the plugin has been disabled.

If you are new to conditional statements, you can read one of our earlier post about if, then and else conditions.

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Vertical1234691 = false;
ShowAdHereBanner1234691 = true;
RepeatAll1234691 = false;
NoFollowAll1234691 = false;
BannerStyles1234691 = new Array(
“a{display:block;font-size:11px;color:#888;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;margin:0 4px 10px 0;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;overflow:hidden;}”,
“img{border:0;clear:right;}”,
“a.adhere{color:#666;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;border:1px solid #ccc;background:#e7e7e7;text-align:center;}”,
“a.adhere:hover{border:1px solid #999;background:#ddd;color:#333;}”
);

document.write(unescape(”%3Cscript src=\’”+document.location.protocol+”//s3.buysellads.com/1234691/1234691.js?v=”+Date.parse(new Date())+”\’ type=\’text/javascript\’%3E%3C/script%3E”));