O:9:"MagpieRSS":17:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:50:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"WPCandy: Duster may become Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten’s successor";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17459";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/C5RFvJfK-Oo/duster-may-become-twenty-eleven";s:11:"description";s:3419:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17459"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17543" title="Duster WordPress theme (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/dustertheme-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="250" /></a></p><p>Last year&#8217;s 3.0 release of WordPress brought with it a new default theme called <a title="Twenty Ten WordPress theme development blog" href="http://2010dev.wordpress.com/">Twenty Ten</a> (Rest in peace, <em>Kubrick</em>). Twenty Ten was designed to put on display key WordPress features, teach new beginning theme developers, and was named specifically to provide that extra push to developers to create Twenty Eleven while it was still <em>2011</em>.</p><p>Development on the next version of WordPress, version 3.2, is in full swing. With an update from project lead Matt Mullenweg just yesterday, 3.2 may bring with it a new default theme called, this time called Twenty Eleven. Mullenweg&#8217;s proposal is to improve and use <a title="Duster theme on WordPress.com" href="http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/duster/">Duster</a> as this new default theme. Duster, of course, is the theme that ThemeShaper adopted and adapted for <a title="ThemeShaper redesign and refocus, using Duster" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/themeshaper-refocuses-as-the-automattic-theme-team-blog">its redesign</a> back in February.</p><p>Mullenweg added the following to <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17198">his ticket</a> proposing Duster as the new basis for WordPress&#8217; default theme:</p><blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been a few years since we did this (#9015) but let&#8217;s track the effort for the TwentyEleven theme, hopefully making 3.2, here.</p><p>Main goals besides what we&#8217;ve already done in TwentyTen:</p><ul><li>To be different from TwentyTen, aesthetically.</li><li>Is a good showcase of WP&#8217;s headline features.</li><li>Clean, fast to load, and with best-practice markup.</li></ul><p>Some people will prefer the design of TwentyTen, which is still excellent, over TwentyEleven, but that&#8217;s okay. We&#8217;ll have something new next year.</p></blockquote><p>See the initial <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17669">changeset</a> for more info, and we&#8217;ll keep you posted on any updates we get. Assuming Duster becomes the next default, Twenty Eleven theme, what would you think? Is it a worthy successor to Twenty Ten?</p><p><span id="more-17459"></span></p><p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> This information is pulled from the <a title="WordPress Trac" href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">WordPress Trac</a>, which is about as early in the stages of planning/development as you can get. Well, except the mind itself. But until we can perfect our mind reading techniques here at WPCandy, which would undoubtedly increase the provocativeness of our blog posts, we have to rely on Trac tickets for early WordPress project movements. All of this is to say: take what is reported here with a grain of salt, since it could end up not happening. And try to limit those terrible, terrible thoughts of yours.</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17459">Duster may become Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten's successor</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:38:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"Mark McWilliams";}s:7:"summary";s:3419:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17459"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17543" title="Duster WordPress theme (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/dustertheme-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="250" /></a></p><p>Last year&#8217;s 3.0 release of WordPress brought with it a new default theme called <a title="Twenty Ten WordPress theme development blog" href="http://2010dev.wordpress.com/">Twenty Ten</a> (Rest in peace, <em>Kubrick</em>). Twenty Ten was designed to put on display key WordPress features, teach new beginning theme developers, and was named specifically to provide that extra push to developers to create Twenty Eleven while it was still <em>2011</em>.</p><p>Development on the next version of WordPress, version 3.2, is in full swing. With an update from project lead Matt Mullenweg just yesterday, 3.2 may bring with it a new default theme called, this time called Twenty Eleven. Mullenweg&#8217;s proposal is to improve and use <a title="Duster theme on WordPress.com" href="http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/duster/">Duster</a> as this new default theme. Duster, of course, is the theme that ThemeShaper adopted and adapted for <a title="ThemeShaper redesign and refocus, using Duster" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/themeshaper-refocuses-as-the-automattic-theme-team-blog">its redesign</a> back in February.</p><p>Mullenweg added the following to <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17198">his ticket</a> proposing Duster as the new basis for WordPress&#8217; default theme:</p><blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been a few years since we did this (#9015) but let&#8217;s track the effort for the TwentyEleven theme, hopefully making 3.2, here.</p><p>Main goals besides what we&#8217;ve already done in TwentyTen:</p><ul><li>To be different from TwentyTen, aesthetically.</li><li>Is a good showcase of WP&#8217;s headline features.</li><li>Clean, fast to load, and with best-practice markup.</li></ul><p>Some people will prefer the design of TwentyTen, which is still excellent, over TwentyEleven, but that&#8217;s okay. We&#8217;ll have something new next year.</p></blockquote><p>See the initial <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17669">changeset</a> for more info, and we&#8217;ll keep you posted on any updates we get. Assuming Duster becomes the next default, Twenty Eleven theme, what would you think? Is it a worthy successor to Twenty Ten?</p><p><span id="more-17459"></span></p><p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> This information is pulled from the <a title="WordPress Trac" href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">WordPress Trac</a>, which is about as early in the stages of planning/development as you can get. Well, except the mind itself. But until we can perfect our mind reading techniques here at WPCandy, which would undoubtedly increase the provocativeness of our blog posts, we have to rely on Trac tickets for early WordPress project movements. All of this is to say: take what is reported here with a grain of salt, since it could end up not happening. And try to limit those terrible, terrible thoughts of yours.</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17459">Duster may become Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten's successor</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/21";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=9922";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/nLVKpzlTq5s/";s:11:"description";s:1006:"<h3>New plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/badpass-wp/"><strong>BadPass-WP</strong></a> will test over 500 commonly used passwords against the logged in user&#8217;s account and display a warning bar at the top of the page if a match is found.</p>
<p><a href="http://tentblogger.com/top-commenters/"><strong>Simple Top Commenters Widget</strong></a> allows you to to show a simple list of the top commenters on your blog.</p>
<h3>Updated plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare/"><strong>CloudFlare</strong></a> ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform.</p>
<p><a href="http://tentblogger.com/rss-video-embed/"><strong>RSS Video Embed</strong></a> adds a video embed shortcode that can be intelligently interpreted by your community&#8217;s RSS Feed Readers with a graceful fall-back link to the post.</p>
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<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/badpass-wp/"><strong>BadPass-WP</strong></a> will test over 500 commonly used passwords against the logged in user&#8217;s account and display a warning bar at the top of the page if a match is found.</p>
<p><a href="http://tentblogger.com/top-commenters/"><strong>Simple Top Commenters Widget</strong></a> allows you to to show a simple list of the top commenters on your blog.</p>
<h3>Updated plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare/"><strong>CloudFlare</strong></a> ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform.</p>
<p><a href="http://tentblogger.com/rss-video-embed/"><strong>RSS Video Embed</strong></a> adds a video embed shortcode that can be intelligently interpreted by your community&#8217;s RSS Feed Readers with a graceful fall-back link to the post.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/nLVKpzlTq5s" height="1" width="1" />";}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:72:"WPCandy: Mojo Themes sees big redesign, offering Anniversary Bundle deal";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17516";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/VU72ojtw9-E/mojo-themes-sees-big-2011-redesign";s:11:"description";s:3450:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17516"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17533" title="Mojo Themes redesign (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/mojothemesredesign-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>Mojo Themes, a theme marketplace that hosts a number of WordPress themes, has launched a redesign of its marketplace in conjunction with its one year anniversary. <a title="Mojo Themes redesign by Brian Hoff" href="http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2011/04/redesigning-the-mojo-themes-marketplace-experience/">Designed by Brian Hoff</a>, the new site is a good deal brighter than the last revision (comparison shot shown below after the jump).</p><p>Mojo&#8217;s J.R. Farr explained in the <a title="Mojo Themes 2011 redesign launch post" href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/2011/04/new-mojo-and-anniversary-bundle/">redesign launch post</a> that the design process took about three months of work to finish, and a number of variations:</p><blockquote><p>At the start of the creative direction and process, we would talk daily about ideas, looks, design styles, etc. and we went through a few weeks with a handful of variations. It was a draining but rewarding process and the full re-design process took close to 3 months to finish.  The old MOJO look was something we were proud of but we felt the time was right to essentially re-brand MOJO and set the standard. We feel like the current look represents us more as who we are and we’re excited for what the new site holds for us.</p></blockquote><p>The Mojo team built out the new site starting from a clean slate as well, focusing on a &#8220;rock-solid framework built solely around [their] users.&#8221; The redesign announcement also included mentions of yet to be released features like MOJO Social, alert notifications, and enhanced seller controls.</p><p>In addition to the redesign, Mojo is promoting an <a title="Mojo Themes Anniversary Bundle" href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/bundles/anniversary/">Anniversary Bundle</a> to celebrate their first year online. The bundle includes a number of WordPress themes, has a value of $442, and is available for only $25.</p><p>As we try to do <a title="WPCandy on big WordPress site redesigns" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/big-wordpress-site-redesigns">each time a big WordPress community site redesigns</a>, we have a comparison screenshot just after the jump. The old screenshot is based on an older Archive.org snapshot, so it&#8217;s missing a few elements, but you&#8217;ll get the gist of it. While you&#8217;re taking a look, drop by the comments and let us know what you think of the redesign. How do you think it stacks up against other theme marketplaces?</p><p><span id="more-17516"></span></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17532" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/mojo-themes-sees-big-2011-redesign/attachment/mojothemesredesigncomparison-teaser"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17532" title="Mojo Themes 2011 redesign comparison screenshot" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/mojothemesredesigncomparison-teaser-300x296.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="296" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17516">Mojo Themes sees big redesign, offering Anniversary Bundle deal</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:33:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:3450:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17516"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17533" title="Mojo Themes redesign (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/mojothemesredesign-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>Mojo Themes, a theme marketplace that hosts a number of WordPress themes, has launched a redesign of its marketplace in conjunction with its one year anniversary. <a title="Mojo Themes redesign by Brian Hoff" href="http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2011/04/redesigning-the-mojo-themes-marketplace-experience/">Designed by Brian Hoff</a>, the new site is a good deal brighter than the last revision (comparison shot shown below after the jump).</p><p>Mojo&#8217;s J.R. Farr explained in the <a title="Mojo Themes 2011 redesign launch post" href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/2011/04/new-mojo-and-anniversary-bundle/">redesign launch post</a> that the design process took about three months of work to finish, and a number of variations:</p><blockquote><p>At the start of the creative direction and process, we would talk daily about ideas, looks, design styles, etc. and we went through a few weeks with a handful of variations. It was a draining but rewarding process and the full re-design process took close to 3 months to finish.  The old MOJO look was something we were proud of but we felt the time was right to essentially re-brand MOJO and set the standard. We feel like the current look represents us more as who we are and we’re excited for what the new site holds for us.</p></blockquote><p>The Mojo team built out the new site starting from a clean slate as well, focusing on a &#8220;rock-solid framework built solely around [their] users.&#8221; The redesign announcement also included mentions of yet to be released features like MOJO Social, alert notifications, and enhanced seller controls.</p><p>In addition to the redesign, Mojo is promoting an <a title="Mojo Themes Anniversary Bundle" href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/bundles/anniversary/">Anniversary Bundle</a> to celebrate their first year online. The bundle includes a number of WordPress themes, has a value of $442, and is available for only $25.</p><p>As we try to do <a title="WPCandy on big WordPress site redesigns" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/big-wordpress-site-redesigns">each time a big WordPress community site redesigns</a>, we have a comparison screenshot just after the jump. The old screenshot is based on an older Archive.org snapshot, so it&#8217;s missing a few elements, but you&#8217;ll get the gist of it. While you&#8217;re taking a look, drop by the comments and let us know what you think of the redesign. How do you think it stacks up against other theme marketplaces?</p><p><span id="more-17516"></span></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17532" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/mojo-themes-sees-big-2011-redesign/attachment/mojothemesredesigncomparison-teaser"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17532" title="Mojo Themes 2011 redesign comparison screenshot" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/mojothemesredesigncomparison-teaser-300x296.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="296" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17516">Mojo Themes sees big redesign, offering Anniversary Bundle deal</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"WPCandy: Jay Z’s got 99 problems but a blog ain’t one";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17501";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/H7f2R7ojMEs/jay-z-new-website-life-and-times";s:11:"description";s:2435:"<p><a href="hhttp://wpcandy.com/?p=17501"><img class="size-full wp-image-17504 alignnone" title="jayz-wordpress-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/jayzwordpress-teaser.jpg" alt="jayz-wordpress-teaser" width="600" height="294" /></a></p><p>Jay Z is on WordPress. This should be no surprise to you. First, Because Jay Z is awesome—so it&#8217;s a natural choice. Second, this isn&#8217;t his first affair with WordPress. Jay Z put his personal site on WordPress early last year, and Matt Mullenweg <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/photomatt/status/8832640545">wittingly tweeted</a> what is now the title of this post.</p><p>But now Jay Z is expanding his already extensive entertainment empire. He has launched the <a href="http://lifeandtimes.com">Life + Times magagazine</a>, featuring what appears to be posts about <em>life and times</em>. Shocking, right?</p><p>My favorite part about the content is that, according to the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/04/20/2011-04-20_jayzs_new_blog_shrouding_itself_in_secrecy_as_rap_star_follows_footsteps_of_gwyn.html">New York Daily News</a>, the majority of the site&#8217;s authors are relative unknowns that get pretty much free reign to be &#8216;young tastemakers&#8217;.</p><p><span id="more-17501"></span></p><p><em>Where are the applications!?</em></p><p>Taking a look at the source code, the site is running WordPress 3.1.1 (only the freshest for Jay Z, no?), Yoast&#8217;s Google Analytics plugin, Michael Torbert&#8217;s All in One SEO Pack, the Haiku audio player, the Add This sharing plugin, Disqus comments, and WP Super Cache.</p><p>It was developed by <a href="http://www.area17.com">Area 17</a>, a firm based out of New York City and Paris.</p><p>The site is a beautiful magazine layout with a creative slideshow setup full of thumbnails that reveal post information on hover. Go <a href="http://lifeandtimes.com">check it out</a>. It&#8217;s also got a nice mobile targeted layout that I previewed on iOS.</p><p>We may as well all just <em>Watch the Throne</em> as Jay Z cements himself as not only the master of flow, but of the <em>entire web</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17501">Jay Z's got 99 problems but a blog ain't one</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:26:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"Brian Krogsgard";}s:7:"summary";s:2435:"<p><a href="hhttp://wpcandy.com/?p=17501"><img class="size-full wp-image-17504 alignnone" title="jayz-wordpress-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/jayzwordpress-teaser.jpg" alt="jayz-wordpress-teaser" width="600" height="294" /></a></p><p>Jay Z is on WordPress. This should be no surprise to you. First, Because Jay Z is awesome—so it&#8217;s a natural choice. Second, this isn&#8217;t his first affair with WordPress. Jay Z put his personal site on WordPress early last year, and Matt Mullenweg <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/photomatt/status/8832640545">wittingly tweeted</a> what is now the title of this post.</p><p>But now Jay Z is expanding his already extensive entertainment empire. He has launched the <a href="http://lifeandtimes.com">Life + Times magagazine</a>, featuring what appears to be posts about <em>life and times</em>. Shocking, right?</p><p>My favorite part about the content is that, according to the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/04/20/2011-04-20_jayzs_new_blog_shrouding_itself_in_secrecy_as_rap_star_follows_footsteps_of_gwyn.html">New York Daily News</a>, the majority of the site&#8217;s authors are relative unknowns that get pretty much free reign to be &#8216;young tastemakers&#8217;.</p><p><span id="more-17501"></span></p><p><em>Where are the applications!?</em></p><p>Taking a look at the source code, the site is running WordPress 3.1.1 (only the freshest for Jay Z, no?), Yoast&#8217;s Google Analytics plugin, Michael Torbert&#8217;s All in One SEO Pack, the Haiku audio player, the Add This sharing plugin, Disqus comments, and WP Super Cache.</p><p>It was developed by <a href="http://www.area17.com">Area 17</a>, a firm based out of New York City and Paris.</p><p>The site is a beautiful magazine layout with a creative slideshow setup full of thumbnails that reveal post information on hover. Go <a href="http://lifeandtimes.com">check it out</a>. It&#8217;s also got a nice mobile targeted layout that I previewed on iOS.</p><p>We may as well all just <em>Watch the Throne</em> as Jay Z cements himself as not only the master of flow, but of the <em>entire web</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17501">Jay Z's got 99 problems but a blog ain't one</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:83:"WPCandy: WordCamp: Developers ramping up for May 5 in Vancouver, speakers announced";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17465";s:4:"link";s:112:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/EyzdgAY1jkw/wordcamp-developers-2011-ramping-up-for-may-5-in-vancouver";s:11:"description";s:2446:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17465"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17494" title="WordCamp: Developers logo (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampdevelopers-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="151" /></a></p><p>If you’re in the Vancouver, BC area (or love to travel) and just love learning <em>aboot</em> WordPress development, <a title="WordCamp: Developers" href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/">WordCamp: Developers</a> is probably right up your alley. Developers is this year’s WordCamp Vancouver, and is focused solely on (big surprise here) WordPress developers. The topics that will be covered at the conference include HTML5 and CSS3, forums, multisite, e-commerce, HTML5 video, and information architecture.</p><p>Just a guess here, but I bet <em>some</em> of the presentations will include code samples. Maybe one or two.</p><p>There are a number of very high profile WordPress developers that will be speaking, including Toby McKes of Cheezburger Networks, Justin Sainton a core developer of WP E-Commerce, Brendan Sera-Shriar of Vanilla Forums and nine other professionals. There will be two tracks, one for UX (or user experience) and one for development. There are a number of <a title="WordCamp: Developers speakers" href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/speakers/">great talks that are scheduled</a>, but my favorites have to be:</p><ul><li>&#8220;Possibly the Strangest WordPress Project You’ve Ever Seen in Your Life&#8221; and</li><li>&#8220;Adrift in a sea of templates. Or, how to be different &#8211; like everyone else&#8221;</li></ul><p>The conference is May 5th and there are about 100 tickets left at $40 CAD, down from $45 CAD thanks to new sponsors of the event. You can <a title="Register for WordCamp: Developers" href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/event-registration/?regevent_action=register&event_id=1&name_of_event=WordCamp:Developers">register</a> on the WordCamp: Developers site.</p><p>So who’s excited about a WordCamp focused on developers? Have you ever attended a WordCamp and felt there wasn&#8217;t enough material for you as a developer?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17465">WordCamp: Developers ramping up for May 5 in Vancouver, speakers announced</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:18:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:2446:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17465"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17494" title="WordCamp: Developers logo (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampdevelopers-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="151" /></a></p><p>If you’re in the Vancouver, BC area (or love to travel) and just love learning <em>aboot</em> WordPress development, <a title="WordCamp: Developers" href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/">WordCamp: Developers</a> is probably right up your alley. Developers is this year’s WordCamp Vancouver, and is focused solely on (big surprise here) WordPress developers. The topics that will be covered at the conference include HTML5 and CSS3, forums, multisite, e-commerce, HTML5 video, and information architecture.</p><p>Just a guess here, but I bet <em>some</em> of the presentations will include code samples. Maybe one or two.</p><p>There are a number of very high profile WordPress developers that will be speaking, including Toby McKes of Cheezburger Networks, Justin Sainton a core developer of WP E-Commerce, Brendan Sera-Shriar of Vanilla Forums and nine other professionals. There will be two tracks, one for UX (or user experience) and one for development. There are a number of <a title="WordCamp: Developers speakers" href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/speakers/">great talks that are scheduled</a>, but my favorites have to be:</p><ul><li>&#8220;Possibly the Strangest WordPress Project You’ve Ever Seen in Your Life&#8221; and</li><li>&#8220;Adrift in a sea of templates. Or, how to be different &#8211; like everyone else&#8221;</li></ul><p>The conference is May 5th and there are about 100 tickets left at $40 CAD, down from $45 CAD thanks to new sponsors of the event. You can <a title="Register for WordCamp: Developers" href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/event-registration/?regevent_action=register&event_id=1&name_of_event=WordCamp:Developers">register</a> on the WordCamp: Developers site.</p><p>So who’s excited about a WordCamp focused on developers? Have you ever attended a WordCamp and felt there wasn&#8217;t enough material for you as a developer?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17465">WordCamp: Developers ramping up for May 5 in Vancouver, speakers announced</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"WPCandy: Nearly 20,000 people make a living with WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17469";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/S2M0-e6O86A/20000-people-make-a-living-with-wordpress";s:11:"description";s:2506:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17469"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17475" title="20,000 make a living with WordPress" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/WPcheck.jpg" alt="20,000 make a living with WordPress" width="600" height="272" /></a></p><p>Matt Mullenweg posted on the WordPress <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/we-have-a-checkbox-in-profiles-where-people/">Development blog</a> that 19,932 people make their living using WordPress. The stat comes from users&#8217; WordPress.org <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/profile">support forum profiles.</a></p><p>There are two options at the end of the profile fields that ask users to check whether they use WordPress at work, or make a living with WordPress.</p><p>20,000 is an impressive number. I&#8217;m sure the majority of people that make their living with WordPress design and develop WordPess websites, but of course many of you may also develop themes, plugins, or do other types of WordPress work.</p><p>We certainly know WordPress developers <a href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/odesk-finds-wordpress-top-sought-after-skill-in-2010">are in</a> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordpress-experts-in-demand-on-elance">high</a> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordpress-php-developer-jobs">demand</a>, but it&#8217;s interesting to me to have a more tangible number that represents just how much food the platform puts on the table.</p><p>Will you help me test this little stat out a bit? Personally, I had forgotten that check box was in support profiles, and maybe you did too. Or maybe you created your profile long before you started making your living with WordPress.</p><p>So if you feel so inclined, fill out my little poll after the jump and we can find out if there are any WPCandy readers that make their living with WordPress that didn&#8217;t include it in their dot org support profile.</p><p><span id="more-17469"></span></p><p><a name="pd_a_4949546"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4949546"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4949546/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online surveys</a></span><br /> </p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17469">Nearly 20,000 people make a living with WordPress</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:05:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"Brian Krogsgard";}s:7:"summary";s:2506:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17469"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17475" title="20,000 make a living with WordPress" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/WPcheck.jpg" alt="20,000 make a living with WordPress" width="600" height="272" /></a></p><p>Matt Mullenweg posted on the WordPress <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/we-have-a-checkbox-in-profiles-where-people/">Development blog</a> that 19,932 people make their living using WordPress. The stat comes from users&#8217; WordPress.org <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/profile">support forum profiles.</a></p><p>There are two options at the end of the profile fields that ask users to check whether they use WordPress at work, or make a living with WordPress.</p><p>20,000 is an impressive number. I&#8217;m sure the majority of people that make their living with WordPress design and develop WordPess websites, but of course many of you may also develop themes, plugins, or do other types of WordPress work.</p><p>We certainly know WordPress developers <a href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/odesk-finds-wordpress-top-sought-after-skill-in-2010">are in</a> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordpress-experts-in-demand-on-elance">high</a> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordpress-php-developer-jobs">demand</a>, but it&#8217;s interesting to me to have a more tangible number that represents just how much food the platform puts on the table.</p><p>Will you help me test this little stat out a bit? Personally, I had forgotten that check box was in support profiles, and maybe you did too. Or maybe you created your profile long before you started making your living with WordPress.</p><p>So if you feel so inclined, fill out my little poll after the jump and we can find out if there are any WPCandy readers that make their living with WordPress that didn&#8217;t include it in their dot org support profile.</p><p><span id="more-17469"></span></p><p><a name="pd_a_4949546"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4949546"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4949546/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online surveys</a></span><br /> </p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17469">Nearly 20,000 people make a living with WordPress</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"WPCandy: Allure Themes launches as WordPress themes for women";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=16994";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/AzOj68oR5kE/allure-themes-launches-as-wordpress-themes-for-women";s:11:"description";s:2579:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16994"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16995" title="Allure Themes website (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/allurethemeswebsite-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="226" /></a></p><p>Lisa Sabin-Wilson has <a title="Allure Themes launch post" href="http://allurethemes.com/allure-themes-official-launch/">launched</a> Allure Themes, a new WordPress themes shop made especially for women. While I wouldn’t go as far as to say Allure is the <em>only</em> WordPress theme shop designed for women (there are a lot of theme shops, after all) I can comfortably say Allure is the highest profile, at this point.</p><p>The shop launch marks the second collaboration between Sabin-Wilson and Cory Miller of iThemes. Sabin-Wilson described the development of Allure Themes in the official launch post, including how it was first announced just a couple of months ago <a title="WPCandy at WordCamp Phoenix" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-phoenix">at WordCamp Phoenix</a>.</p><blockquote><p>I walked into Phoenix announcing Allure and promoting the heck out of it, without one single theme to show for it.  Clearly, I had my work cut out for me once I returned home from my trip to Phoenix!</p><p>I have been at the game of designing WordPress themes for a long time now – since 2003, actually.  That’s eight years – &#8211; which, I think, in internet-speak means: she’s ancient!</p></blockquote><p>The new shop currently includes <a title="Allure Themes WordPress themes" href="http://allurethemes.com/themes/">six WordPress themes</a> with a feminine appeal. Themes are available via three different memberships of different lengths of time which include access to all their themes: two months for $75, three months for $100, or $150 for six months.</p><p>After giving Lisa such a hard time at WordCamp Phoenix, I can’t very well <em>not</em> recommend checking out her new themes. I couldn’t be happier that she now has a theme shop to go along with her <a title="Teasing Lisa #1" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-phoenix-2011#liveblog-entry-13832">business cards</a> and <a title="Teasing Lisa #2" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-phoenix-2011#liveblog-entry-13770">iPad case</a>!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16994">Allure Themes launches as WordPress themes for women</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:17:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:2579:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16994"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16995" title="Allure Themes website (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/allurethemeswebsite-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="226" /></a></p><p>Lisa Sabin-Wilson has <a title="Allure Themes launch post" href="http://allurethemes.com/allure-themes-official-launch/">launched</a> Allure Themes, a new WordPress themes shop made especially for women. While I wouldn’t go as far as to say Allure is the <em>only</em> WordPress theme shop designed for women (there are a lot of theme shops, after all) I can comfortably say Allure is the highest profile, at this point.</p><p>The shop launch marks the second collaboration between Sabin-Wilson and Cory Miller of iThemes. Sabin-Wilson described the development of Allure Themes in the official launch post, including how it was first announced just a couple of months ago <a title="WPCandy at WordCamp Phoenix" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-phoenix">at WordCamp Phoenix</a>.</p><blockquote><p>I walked into Phoenix announcing Allure and promoting the heck out of it, without one single theme to show for it.  Clearly, I had my work cut out for me once I returned home from my trip to Phoenix!</p><p>I have been at the game of designing WordPress themes for a long time now – since 2003, actually.  That’s eight years – &#8211; which, I think, in internet-speak means: she’s ancient!</p></blockquote><p>The new shop currently includes <a title="Allure Themes WordPress themes" href="http://allurethemes.com/themes/">six WordPress themes</a> with a feminine appeal. Themes are available via three different memberships of different lengths of time which include access to all their themes: two months for $75, three months for $100, or $150 for six months.</p><p>After giving Lisa such a hard time at WordCamp Phoenix, I can’t very well <em>not</em> recommend checking out her new themes. I couldn’t be happier that she now has a theme shop to go along with her <a title="Teasing Lisa #1" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-phoenix-2011#liveblog-entry-13832">business cards</a> and <a title="Teasing Lisa #2" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-phoenix-2011#liveblog-entry-13770">iPad case</a>!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=16994">Allure Themes launches as WordPress themes for women</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:56:"WPCandy: Vote here: Theme Madness 2011, Round 2 (Part 1)";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17450";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/FJpNroFK1_Q/theme-madness-2011-round-2-part-1-voting";s:11:"description";s:15366:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17450"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17451" title="thememadnessvotinground2part1-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/thememadnessvotinground2part1-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>This week we will be running through Round 2 of <a title="Theme Madness 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a>, with eight games happening today, and eight happening again tomorrow. Today&#8217;s games will be:</p><ul><li><span><a title="WooThemes" href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a title="AppThemes" href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Graph Paper Press" href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a title="Organic Themes" href="http://organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="ThemeForest" href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a title="Gabfire Themes" href="http://www.gabfirethemes.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="ThemeShift" href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a> vs. <a title="ThemeGarden" href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a></span></li><li><span><a title="StudioPress" href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a title="PremiumPress" href="http://www.premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Theme Hybrid" href="http://themehybrid.com/">Theme Hybrid</a> vs. <a title="Crowd Favorite" href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Obox Themes" href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a title="UpThemes" href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Startbox" href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a> vs. <a title="Pro Theme Design" href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a></span></li></ul><p>All of the polls and instructions can be found just after the jump, so be sure to click through to have your voice heard. Voting will take place for the next 48 hours, and close 4pm on the 22nd (Eastern Standard Time).</p><p>If you need a reminder, the rules can be found <a title="How to win your Theme Madness 2011 Trophy" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-rules">here</a>. Good luck to everyone playing!</p><p><span id="more-17450"></span></p><h3>WooThemes vs. AppThemes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947515"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947515"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947515/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online survey</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="WooThemes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/woothemes">@WooThemes</a> or <a title="AppTheme son Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/appthemes">@AppThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either WooThemes or AppThemes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Graph Paper Press vs. Organic Themes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947523"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947523"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947523/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">survey software</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Graph Paper Press on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/graphpaperpress">@GraphPaperPress</a> or <a title="Organic Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/organicthemes">@OrganicThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Graph Paper Press or Organic Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>ThemeForest vs. Gabfire Themes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947529"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947529"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947529/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">Market Research</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Envato Web Design on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/envatowebdesign/">@EnvatoWebDesign</a> or <a title="Gabfire Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/gabfirethemes">@GabfireThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either ThemeForest or Gabfire Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>ThemeShift vs. ThemeGarden</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947531"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947531"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947531/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online surveys</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="ThemeShift on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/themeshift/">@ThemeShift</a> or <a title="ThemeGarden on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/themegarden/">@ThemeGarden</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either ThemeShift or ThemeGarden start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>StudioPress vs. PremiumPress</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947536"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947536"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947536/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online surveys</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="StudioPress on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/studiopress">@StudioPress</a> or <a title="PremiumPress on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/markfail/">@MarkFail</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either StudioPress or PremiumPress start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Theme Hybrid vs. Crowd Favorite</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947539"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947539"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947539/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">Market Research</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Justin Tadlock on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/justintadlock">@JustinTadlock</a> or <a title="Crowd Favorite on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/crowdfavorite">@CrowdFavorite</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Theme Hybrid or Crowd Favorite start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Obox Themes vs. UpThemes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947543"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947543"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947543/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">survey software</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Obox on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/obox">@Obox</a> or <a title="UpThemes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/upthemes">@UpThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Obox Themes or UpThemes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Startbox vs. Pro Theme Design</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947547"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947547"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947547/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">customer surveys</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Startbox on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/wpstartbox">@WPStartbox</a> or <a title="Pro Theme Design on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/prothemedesign">@ProThemeDesign</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Startbox or Pro Theme Design start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Theme Madness 2011 Game Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a href="http://pandathemes.com/">Panda Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://storefrontthemes.com/">Storefront Themes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.solostream.com/">Solostream</a> vs. <a href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a></p><p><a href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a> vs. <a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/">BlogOhBlog</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://themehybrid.com/">ThemeHybrid</a> vs. <a href="http://xtreme-theme.com/">Xtreme Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a> vs. <a href="http://workingwireframes.com/">Working Wireframes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> vs. <a href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a></p><p><a href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a> vs. <a href="http://themeskingdom.com/">Themes Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></p><p><a href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></p><p><a href="http://press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. <a href="http://themes.bavotasan.com/">Themes by Bavotasan</a></td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd"><td class="column-1">April 14</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/">Dev4Press</a> vs. <a href="http://www.indonez.com/">Indonez</a></p><p><a href="http://ithemes.com/">iThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themewarrior.com/">ThemeWarrior</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> vs. <a href="http://www.vivathemes.com/">Viva Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pagelines.com/">Pagelines</a> vs.<a href="http://wonderthemes.com/"> Wonder Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://gorillathemes.com/">Gorilla Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://wpshower.com/">WPShower</a></p><p><a href="http://diythemes.com/">DIYThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-force.com/">ThemeForce</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://tokokoo.com/">Tokokoo</a> vs. <a href="http://standardtheme.com/">Standard Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/">Theme Foundry</a> vs. <a href="http://themefuse.com/">ThemeFuse</a></td></tr><tr class="row-6 even"><td class="column-1">April 18</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17450">Vote here: Theme Madness 2011, Round 2 (Part 1)</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:54:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:15366:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17450"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17451" title="thememadnessvotinground2part1-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/thememadnessvotinground2part1-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>This week we will be running through Round 2 of <a title="Theme Madness 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a>, with eight games happening today, and eight happening again tomorrow. Today&#8217;s games will be:</p><ul><li><span><a title="WooThemes" href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a title="AppThemes" href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Graph Paper Press" href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a title="Organic Themes" href="http://organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="ThemeForest" href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a title="Gabfire Themes" href="http://www.gabfirethemes.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="ThemeShift" href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a> vs. <a title="ThemeGarden" href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a></span></li><li><span><a title="StudioPress" href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a title="PremiumPress" href="http://www.premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Theme Hybrid" href="http://themehybrid.com/">Theme Hybrid</a> vs. <a title="Crowd Favorite" href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Obox Themes" href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a title="UpThemes" href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Startbox" href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a> vs. <a title="Pro Theme Design" href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a></span></li></ul><p>All of the polls and instructions can be found just after the jump, so be sure to click through to have your voice heard. Voting will take place for the next 48 hours, and close 4pm on the 22nd (Eastern Standard Time).</p><p>If you need a reminder, the rules can be found <a title="How to win your Theme Madness 2011 Trophy" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-rules">here</a>. Good luck to everyone playing!</p><p><span id="more-17450"></span></p><h3>WooThemes vs. AppThemes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947515"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947515"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947515/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online survey</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="WooThemes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/woothemes">@WooThemes</a> or <a title="AppTheme son Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/appthemes">@AppThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either WooThemes or AppThemes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Graph Paper Press vs. Organic Themes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947523"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947523"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947523/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">survey software</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Graph Paper Press on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/graphpaperpress">@GraphPaperPress</a> or <a title="Organic Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/organicthemes">@OrganicThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Graph Paper Press or Organic Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>ThemeForest vs. Gabfire Themes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947529"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947529"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947529/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">Market Research</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Envato Web Design on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/envatowebdesign/">@EnvatoWebDesign</a> or <a title="Gabfire Themes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/gabfirethemes">@GabfireThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either ThemeForest or Gabfire Themes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>ThemeShift vs. ThemeGarden</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947531"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947531"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947531/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online surveys</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="ThemeShift on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/themeshift/">@ThemeShift</a> or <a title="ThemeGarden on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/themegarden/">@ThemeGarden</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either ThemeShift or ThemeGarden start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>StudioPress vs. PremiumPress</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947536"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947536"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947536/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">online surveys</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="StudioPress on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/studiopress">@StudioPress</a> or <a title="PremiumPress on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/markfail/">@MarkFail</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either StudioPress or PremiumPress start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Theme Hybrid vs. Crowd Favorite</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947539"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947539"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947539/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">Market Research</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Justin Tadlock on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/justintadlock">@JustinTadlock</a> or <a title="Crowd Favorite on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/crowdfavorite">@CrowdFavorite</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Theme Hybrid or Crowd Favorite start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Obox Themes vs. UpThemes</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947543"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947543"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947543/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">survey software</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Obox on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/obox">@Obox</a> or <a title="UpThemes on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/upthemes">@UpThemes</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Obox Themes or UpThemes start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Startbox vs. Pro Theme Design</h3><p><a name="pd_a_4947547"></a><div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container4947547"></div><p><br /> <br /> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/4947547/">View This Poll</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/">customer surveys</a></span><br /> </p><p>Remember, along with this poll you can also vote two other ways:</p><ul><li><strong>The away game:</strong> Tweet your vote using the <a title="#wpmadness hashtag on Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmadness">#wpmadness</a> hashtag and mention either <a title="Startbox on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/wpstartbox">@WPStartbox</a> or <a title="Pro Theme Design on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#!/prothemedesign">@ProThemeDesign</a>.</li><li><strong>The home game:</strong> If either Startbox or Pro Theme Design start up a post on their blog, your comment there will count as a vote as well.</li></ul><h3>Theme Madness 2011 Game Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a href="http://pandathemes.com/">Panda Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://storefrontthemes.com/">Storefront Themes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.solostream.com/">Solostream</a> vs. <a href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a></p><p><a href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a> vs. <a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/">BlogOhBlog</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://themehybrid.com/">ThemeHybrid</a> vs. <a href="http://xtreme-theme.com/">Xtreme Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a> vs. <a href="http://workingwireframes.com/">Working Wireframes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> vs. <a href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a></p><p><a href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a> vs. <a href="http://themeskingdom.com/">Themes Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></p><p><a href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></p><p><a href="http://press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. <a href="http://themes.bavotasan.com/">Themes by Bavotasan</a></td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd"><td class="column-1">April 14</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/">Dev4Press</a> vs. <a href="http://www.indonez.com/">Indonez</a></p><p><a href="http://ithemes.com/">iThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themewarrior.com/">ThemeWarrior</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> vs. <a href="http://www.vivathemes.com/">Viva Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pagelines.com/">Pagelines</a> vs.<a href="http://wonderthemes.com/"> Wonder Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://gorillathemes.com/">Gorilla Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://wpshower.com/">WPShower</a></p><p><a href="http://diythemes.com/">DIYThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-force.com/">ThemeForce</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://tokokoo.com/">Tokokoo</a> vs. <a href="http://standardtheme.com/">Standard Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/">Theme Foundry</a> vs. <a href="http://themefuse.com/">ThemeFuse</a></td></tr><tr class="row-6 even"><td class="column-1">April 18</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17450">Vote here: Theme Madness 2011, Round 2 (Part 1)</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"WPCandy: Winners: Results of Theme Madness Round 1, Day 4";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17441";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/3vjOhA0wF_k/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-4-winners";s:11:"description";s:10011:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17441"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17442" title="wpthememadnesswinnersround1day4-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wpthememadnesswinnersround1day4-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>The <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a> tournament has been roaring along really well so far. We’re into Round 2 of voting, with just a few hours left . But today we’re talking about Round 1, Day 4 winners.</p><p>We have the results of <em>sixteen</em> games, <em>sixteen</em> winners, and a couple of <em>very</em> close calls. We’ll dig in just after the jump.</p><h3>How we scored the games</h3><p>Just to recap, each game was run on three fronts. First, we counted up the polls for each game. Secondly, we counted up votes on Twitter. Finally, we counted up comments generated (if they were) on the competitor’s blogs. Top score won.</p><p><span id="more-17441"></span></p><h3>Results of The Theme Foundry vs. ThemeFuse</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. ThemeFuse: 77</span></li><li><span>2. The Theme Foundry: 49</span></li></ul><p>Winner: ThemeFuse, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Tokokoo vs. Standard Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. Standard Theme: 141</span></li><li><span>7. Tokokoo: 41</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Standard Theme, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of DIYThemes vs. ThemeForce</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. ThemeForce: 42</span></li><li><span>2. DIYThemes: 62</span></li></ul><p>Winner: DIYThemes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Gorilla Themes vs. WPShower</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. WPShower: 34</span></li><li><span>7. Gorilla Themes: 44</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Gorilla Themes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Pagelines vs. Wonder Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. Wonder Themes: 85</span></li><li><span>2. Pagelines: 61</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Wonder Themes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of WPZoom vs. Viva Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. Viva Themes: 21</span></li><li><span>7. WPZoom: 125</span></li></ul><p>Winner: WPZoom, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of iThemes vs. ThemeWarrior</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. ThemeWarrior: 40</span></li><li><span>2. iThemes: 72</span></li></ul><p>Winner: iThemes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Dev4Press vs. Indonez</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. Indonez: 44</span></li><li><span>7. Dev4Press: 57</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Dev4Press, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>What do you think of the results so far?</h3><p>We’re beginning to see results show up on the big <a title="Theme Madness 2011 Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">Theme Madness Bracket</a>. How do you think the results are shaking out? Are you surprised by any of the results so far? How are your own personal brackets going?</p><h3>Updated Theme Madness Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a href="http://pandathemes.com/">Panda Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://storefrontthemes.com/">Storefront Themes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.solostream.com/">Solostream</a> vs. <a href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a></p><p><a href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a> vs. <a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/">BlogOhBlog</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://themehybrid.com/">ThemeHybrid</a> vs. <a href="http://xtreme-theme.com/">Xtreme Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a> vs. <a href="http://workingwireframes.com/">Working Wireframes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> vs. <a href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a></p><p><a href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a> vs. <a href="http://themeskingdom.com/">Themes Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></p><p><a href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></p><p><a href="http://press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. <a href="http://themes.bavotasan.com/">Themes by Bavotasan</a></td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd"><td class="column-1">April 14</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/">Dev4Press</a> vs. <a href="http://www.indonez.com/">Indonez</a></p><p><a href="http://ithemes.com/">iThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themewarrior.com/">ThemeWarrior</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> vs. <a href="http://www.vivathemes.com/">Viva Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pagelines.com/">Pagelines</a> vs.<a href="http://wonderthemes.com/"> Wonder Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://gorillathemes.com/">Gorilla Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://wpshower.com/">WPShower</a></p><p><a href="http://diythemes.com/">DIYThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-force.com/">ThemeForce</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://tokokoo.com/">Tokokoo</a> vs. <a href="http://standardtheme.com/">Standard Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/">Theme Foundry</a> vs. <a href="http://themefuse.com/">ThemeFuse</a></td></tr><tr class="row-6 even"><td class="column-1">April 18</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17441">Winners: Results of Theme Madness Round 1, Day 4</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:56:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:10011:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17441"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17442" title="wpthememadnesswinnersround1day4-teaser" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wpthememadnesswinnersround1day4-teaser.png" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>The <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a> tournament has been roaring along really well so far. We’re into Round 2 of voting, with just a few hours left . But today we’re talking about Round 1, Day 4 winners.</p><p>We have the results of <em>sixteen</em> games, <em>sixteen</em> winners, and a couple of <em>very</em> close calls. We’ll dig in just after the jump.</p><h3>How we scored the games</h3><p>Just to recap, each game was run on three fronts. First, we counted up the polls for each game. Secondly, we counted up votes on Twitter. Finally, we counted up comments generated (if they were) on the competitor’s blogs. Top score won.</p><p><span id="more-17441"></span></p><h3>Results of The Theme Foundry vs. ThemeFuse</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. ThemeFuse: 77</span></li><li><span>2. The Theme Foundry: 49</span></li></ul><p>Winner: ThemeFuse, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Tokokoo vs. Standard Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. Standard Theme: 141</span></li><li><span>7. Tokokoo: 41</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Standard Theme, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of DIYThemes vs. ThemeForce</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. ThemeForce: 42</span></li><li><span>2. DIYThemes: 62</span></li></ul><p>Winner: DIYThemes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Gorilla Themes vs. WPShower</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. WPShower: 34</span></li><li><span>7. Gorilla Themes: 44</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Gorilla Themes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Pagelines vs. Wonder Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. Wonder Themes: 85</span></li><li><span>2. Pagelines: 61</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Wonder Themes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of WPZoom vs. Viva Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. Viva Themes: 21</span></li><li><span>7. WPZoom: 125</span></li></ul><p>Winner: WPZoom, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of iThemes vs. ThemeWarrior</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>15. ThemeWarrior: 40</span></li><li><span>2. iThemes: 72</span></li></ul><p>Winner: iThemes, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>Results of Dev4Press vs. Indonez</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>10. Indonez: 44</span></li><li><span>7. Dev4Press: 57</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Dev4Press, who will be competing again on <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">April 21</a>.</p><h3>What do you think of the results so far?</h3><p>We’re beginning to see results show up on the big <a title="Theme Madness 2011 Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">Theme Madness Bracket</a>. How do you think the results are shaking out? Are you surprised by any of the results so far? How are your own personal brackets going?</p><h3>Updated Theme Madness Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a href="http://pandathemes.com/">Panda Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://storefrontthemes.com/">Storefront Themes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.solostream.com/">Solostream</a> vs. <a href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a></p><p><a href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a> vs. <a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/">BlogOhBlog</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://themehybrid.com/">ThemeHybrid</a> vs. <a href="http://xtreme-theme.com/">Xtreme Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a> vs. <a href="http://workingwireframes.com/">Working Wireframes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> vs. <a href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a></p><p><a href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a> vs. <a href="http://themeskingdom.com/">Themes Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></p><p><a href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></p><p><a href="http://press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. <a href="http://themes.bavotasan.com/">Themes by Bavotasan</a></td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd"><td class="column-1">April 14</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/">Dev4Press</a> vs. <a href="http://www.indonez.com/">Indonez</a></p><p><a href="http://ithemes.com/">iThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themewarrior.com/">ThemeWarrior</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> vs. <a href="http://www.vivathemes.com/">Viva Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pagelines.com/">Pagelines</a> vs.<a href="http://wonderthemes.com/"> Wonder Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://gorillathemes.com/">Gorilla Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://wpshower.com/">WPShower</a></p><p><a href="http://diythemes.com/">DIYThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-force.com/">ThemeForce</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://tokokoo.com/">Tokokoo</a> vs. <a href="http://standardtheme.com/">Standard Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/">Theme Foundry</a> vs. <a href="http://themefuse.com/">ThemeFuse</a></td></tr><tr class="row-6 even"><td class="column-1">April 18</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17441">Winners: Results of Theme Madness Round 1, Day 4</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Review: YouTube Comparison";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=9917";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/SQlMY00gIyo/";s:11:"description";s:2903:"<p><a href="http://seattlecircle.org/">John Young</a> contacted us via our shiny new <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-plugins-for-review/">Plugin Review form</a> and asked for our thoughts on the best <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a> embedding plugin for <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> out of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtuber/">Youtuber</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-embedder/">Youtube Embedder</a>, and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-youtube-player/">WP YouTube Player</a>. As this is a comparison request, I&#8217;m going to approach from less of a review angle, and more of a well . . . a comparison.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the subject of which YouTube plugin to use is relatively easy. YouTube embeds have been <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds">built-into WordPress</a> for quite some time. All you need to do is paste the YouTube URL into your post and WordPress takes care of the rest. So the question is, &#8220;Which plugin gives you more than a standard embed?&#8221;</p>
<p>Right off the bat, I&#8217;m going to take Youtube Embedder out of the running. It hasn&#8217;t been updated in over a year, lists its compatibility as up to WordPress 2.9.2 only, and doesn&#8217;t do much more than allow you to control the height and width of your embed.</p>
<p>Youtuber offers the ability to embed the video using valid XHTML code rather than YouTube&#8217;s own invalid code, but it only allows you to customize the height and width of your videos and force the HD version of the video to display. WP YouTube Player offers a variety of customization controls, including the choice over type of embed, width and height, autoplay, and the display of related videos.</p>
<p>Both plugins work well and offer embedding via a shortcode, but I&#8217;m going to have to give my vote in this case to WP YouTube Player based solely on the amount of available options.</p>
<p>Now that we&#8217;re talking about YouTube embeds and options, I have to mention my favorite embed plugin, <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/">Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags</a>. VVQ does almost everything that WP YouTube Player does, but it also does it for <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>, <a href="http://www.viddler.com/">Viddler</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/">DailyMotion</a>, and seven other video providers. The only thing that VVQ currently lacks is support for YouTube&#8217;s new Flashless iFrame embed, which WP YouTube Player supports.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re after just YouTube videos, you should definitely use WP YouTube Player, but if you plan to embed more than just YouTube videos, give Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags a try.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/SQlMY00gIyo" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:00:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:2903:"<p><a href="http://seattlecircle.org/">John Young</a> contacted us via our shiny new <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-plugins-for-review/">Plugin Review form</a> and asked for our thoughts on the best <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a> embedding plugin for <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> out of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtuber/">Youtuber</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-embedder/">Youtube Embedder</a>, and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-youtube-player/">WP YouTube Player</a>. As this is a comparison request, I&#8217;m going to approach from less of a review angle, and more of a well . . . a comparison.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the subject of which YouTube plugin to use is relatively easy. YouTube embeds have been <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds">built-into WordPress</a> for quite some time. All you need to do is paste the YouTube URL into your post and WordPress takes care of the rest. So the question is, &#8220;Which plugin gives you more than a standard embed?&#8221;</p>
<p>Right off the bat, I&#8217;m going to take Youtube Embedder out of the running. It hasn&#8217;t been updated in over a year, lists its compatibility as up to WordPress 2.9.2 only, and doesn&#8217;t do much more than allow you to control the height and width of your embed.</p>
<p>Youtuber offers the ability to embed the video using valid XHTML code rather than YouTube&#8217;s own invalid code, but it only allows you to customize the height and width of your videos and force the HD version of the video to display. WP YouTube Player offers a variety of customization controls, including the choice over type of embed, width and height, autoplay, and the display of related videos.</p>
<p>Both plugins work well and offer embedding via a shortcode, but I&#8217;m going to have to give my vote in this case to WP YouTube Player based solely on the amount of available options.</p>
<p>Now that we&#8217;re talking about YouTube embeds and options, I have to mention my favorite embed plugin, <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/">Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags</a>. VVQ does almost everything that WP YouTube Player does, but it also does it for <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>, <a href="http://www.viddler.com/">Viddler</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/">DailyMotion</a>, and seven other video providers. The only thing that VVQ currently lacks is support for YouTube&#8217;s new Flashless iFrame embed, which WP YouTube Player supports.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re after just YouTube videos, you should definitely use WP YouTube Player, but if you plan to embed more than just YouTube videos, give Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags a try.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/SQlMY00gIyo" height="1" width="1" />";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Alex King: Audience vs. Content";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://alexking.org/?p=5731";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2011/04/19/audience-vs-content";s:11:"description";s:6093:"<p>This past weekend I had the opportunity to be interviewed at <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/" rel="external">WordCamp Seattle</a>. It was great to catch up a little with some fellow WordPress developers and a nice opportunity to share a little about the good fortune I&#8217;ve had to be a part of the WordPress project.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mor10/5625266673/" title="Nick Ohrn interviews Alex King at WordCamp Seattle by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5024/5625266673_15644c850d_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Nick Ohrn interviews Alex King at WordCamp Seattle" /></a></p>
<p>In preparing for the interview, <a href="http://plugin-developer.com" rel="external">Nick Ohrn</a> and I traded a number of ideas and drafted a number of questions and discussion topics. We eventually whittled the list down to two general themes:</p>
<ol>
<li>The evolution of WordPress from an Open Source project used primarily by techies and developers to a product and platform used by millions of individuals, small businesses and even really big companies.</li>
<li>Challenges and benefits in creating a business around an Open Source platform.</li>
</ol>
<p>These are good themes. They provided a chance to explore a number of different topics and cover some interesting subject matter. Our preparation was good, our plan was good. The result was OK<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1303242798257n" id="fn1303242798257" class="footnote">1</a></sup>, but just OK; and I knew it. I feel like I left too much of the best material in the bag.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m never going to be a &#8220;blow the doors off&#8221; public speaker. I know people who are, and I know how much effort they put into it. That&#8217;s just not going to be me. My interests have always been more in the doing than in the talking about it; which is why we chose the interview format instead of a straight presentation.</p>
<p>This morning I was listening to <a href="http://5by5.tv/pipeline/50" rel="external">Dan Benjamin&#8217;s interview Ze Frank on the Pipeline</a> and all of the things that were floating around in my head came sharply into focus. Dan asked good questions and followed up to get more interesting details about specific topics, but the main focus of the interview was simply Ze. That&#8217;s the good stuff.</p>
<p>Back to WordCamp Seattle; a few things happened that contributed to a &#8220;just OK&#8221; result. One was that we had some technical issues with the microphones (feedback, ouch!) and Nick and I had to pass a single mic back and forth. Since we didn&#8217;t each have a mic, it wasn&#8217;t really possible to have a more engaged, conversational discussion. I&#8217;m certainly willing to talk about myself, my experiences and lessons I&#8217;ve learned, but it&#8217;s still hard for me to jump straight to them without a little coaxing or it just feels like I&#8217;m self-absorbed and/or bragging.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mor10/5625854582/" title="Alex King at WordCamp Seattle by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5028/5625854582_cf1d5b033b_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Alex King at WordCamp Seattle" /></a></p>
<p>The other was that I got too concerned about the half of the audience that weren&#8217;t developers or consultants and shied away from interesting things that were more about how <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">Crowd Favorite</a> was started, how we&#8217;ve grown, how it&#8217;s structured and what we do; as well as more technical topics. I&#8217;m a developer and the path that I&#8217;ve taken in creating my business has been a technical one. This is where the meat is. The cost of trying to keep the topics more general and suitable for the entire audience was losing some of the substance that I could offer to the technical/consultant folks there. And really, a more interesting story is better for everyone.</p>
<p>The worst part is that I already knew this, I just hadn&#8217;t connected all of the dots.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had the best results by picking panels and talks to attend based on who is speaking rather than the subject matter. I most enjoy talks by people who do interesting things, and I want to hear about what they do; even when it isn&#8217;t 100% applicable to me.</p>
<p>I think this is one reason why my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2011/03/23/sxsw-wordpress-panel-audio" rel="external">panel talk at SxSWi</a> this year went pretty well. My role there was well defined. I was there specifically to talk about the business of WordPress consulting and development, and I did so without concern about the folks in the audience who may not have been as interested in that topic.</p>
<p>WordCamp Seattle attendees, I&#8217;m inviting you to <a href="http://alexking.org/contact">email me questions</a> that you&#8217;d be interested in hearing about (development, business, Open Source involvement questions &#8211; you name it) &#8211; anything you wish I&#8217;d included in the interview at the event. I&#8217;ll respond to them as best as I&#8217;m able over the next few weeks and perhaps post some of them here as well.</p>
<p>Speakers, don&#8217;t be afraid to get personal and go where the meat is when talking to an audience; even when you don&#8217;t think everyone in your audience is looking for that content. I know I&#8217;m keeping that lesson at the top of my list for next time.</p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mor10/" rel="external">Morten Rand-Hendriksen</a> for taking the photos and publishing them under a CC license so I could use them here.</p>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="fn1303242798257n">WPCandy <a href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-seattle-2011" rel="external">liveblogged</a> some of it. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1303242798257">back</a>]</li>
</ol>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=5731&type=feed" alt="" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:38:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:7:"summary";s:6093:"<p>This past weekend I had the opportunity to be interviewed at <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/" rel="external">WordCamp Seattle</a>. It was great to catch up a little with some fellow WordPress developers and a nice opportunity to share a little about the good fortune I&#8217;ve had to be a part of the WordPress project.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mor10/5625266673/" title="Nick Ohrn interviews Alex King at WordCamp Seattle by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5024/5625266673_15644c850d_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Nick Ohrn interviews Alex King at WordCamp Seattle" /></a></p>
<p>In preparing for the interview, <a href="http://plugin-developer.com" rel="external">Nick Ohrn</a> and I traded a number of ideas and drafted a number of questions and discussion topics. We eventually whittled the list down to two general themes:</p>
<ol>
<li>The evolution of WordPress from an Open Source project used primarily by techies and developers to a product and platform used by millions of individuals, small businesses and even really big companies.</li>
<li>Challenges and benefits in creating a business around an Open Source platform.</li>
</ol>
<p>These are good themes. They provided a chance to explore a number of different topics and cover some interesting subject matter. Our preparation was good, our plan was good. The result was OK<sup><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1303242798257n" id="fn1303242798257" class="footnote">1</a></sup>, but just OK; and I knew it. I feel like I left too much of the best material in the bag.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m never going to be a &#8220;blow the doors off&#8221; public speaker. I know people who are, and I know how much effort they put into it. That&#8217;s just not going to be me. My interests have always been more in the doing than in the talking about it; which is why we chose the interview format instead of a straight presentation.</p>
<p>This morning I was listening to <a href="http://5by5.tv/pipeline/50" rel="external">Dan Benjamin&#8217;s interview Ze Frank on the Pipeline</a> and all of the things that were floating around in my head came sharply into focus. Dan asked good questions and followed up to get more interesting details about specific topics, but the main focus of the interview was simply Ze. That&#8217;s the good stuff.</p>
<p>Back to WordCamp Seattle; a few things happened that contributed to a &#8220;just OK&#8221; result. One was that we had some technical issues with the microphones (feedback, ouch!) and Nick and I had to pass a single mic back and forth. Since we didn&#8217;t each have a mic, it wasn&#8217;t really possible to have a more engaged, conversational discussion. I&#8217;m certainly willing to talk about myself, my experiences and lessons I&#8217;ve learned, but it&#8217;s still hard for me to jump straight to them without a little coaxing or it just feels like I&#8217;m self-absorbed and/or bragging.</p>
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mor10/5625854582/" title="Alex King at WordCamp Seattle by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5028/5625854582_cf1d5b033b_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Alex King at WordCamp Seattle" /></a></p>
<p>The other was that I got too concerned about the half of the audience that weren&#8217;t developers or consultants and shied away from interesting things that were more about how <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">Crowd Favorite</a> was started, how we&#8217;ve grown, how it&#8217;s structured and what we do; as well as more technical topics. I&#8217;m a developer and the path that I&#8217;ve taken in creating my business has been a technical one. This is where the meat is. The cost of trying to keep the topics more general and suitable for the entire audience was losing some of the substance that I could offer to the technical/consultant folks there. And really, a more interesting story is better for everyone.</p>
<p>The worst part is that I already knew this, I just hadn&#8217;t connected all of the dots.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had the best results by picking panels and talks to attend based on who is speaking rather than the subject matter. I most enjoy talks by people who do interesting things, and I want to hear about what they do; even when it isn&#8217;t 100% applicable to me.</p>
<p>I think this is one reason why my <a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2011/03/23/sxsw-wordpress-panel-audio" rel="external">panel talk at SxSWi</a> this year went pretty well. My role there was well defined. I was there specifically to talk about the business of WordPress consulting and development, and I did so without concern about the folks in the audience who may not have been as interested in that topic.</p>
<p>WordCamp Seattle attendees, I&#8217;m inviting you to <a href="http://alexking.org/contact">email me questions</a> that you&#8217;d be interested in hearing about (development, business, Open Source involvement questions &#8211; you name it) &#8211; anything you wish I&#8217;d included in the interview at the event. I&#8217;ll respond to them as best as I&#8217;m able over the next few weeks and perhaps post some of them here as well.</p>
<p>Speakers, don&#8217;t be afraid to get personal and go where the meat is when talking to an audience; even when you don&#8217;t think everyone in your audience is looking for that content. I know I&#8217;m keeping that lesson at the top of my list for next time.</p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mor10/" rel="external">Morten Rand-Hendriksen</a> for taking the photos and publishing them under a CC license so I could use them here.</p>
<ol class="footnotes">
<li id="fn1303242798257n">WPCandy <a href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-seattle-2011" rel="external">liveblogged</a> some of it. [<a href="http://alexking.org/blog/topic/wordpress/feed#fn1303242798257">back</a>]</li>
</ol>
<img src="http://alexking.org/wp/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=5731&type=feed" alt="" />";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:58:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 4/19";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=9911";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/P0I8Jlwx0IQ/";s:11:"description";s:1745:"<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9912" title="thebible" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/thebible.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://emptynestthemes.emptynestheritage.com/archives/834"><strong>The Bible</strong></a> is a Bible-themed 2-column theme, available in narrow and medium varieties.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9913" title="retro-fitted" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/retro-fitted.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://themehybrid.com/themes/retro-fitted"><strong>Retro-fitted</strong></a> is a fun blogging theme that&#8217;s perfect for the spring and summer months. It supports WordPress nav menus, has several widget areas, and allows per-post layouts (one, two, and three-column options).</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9914" title="rosegarden" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/rosegarden.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://emptynestthemes.emptynestheritage.com/archives/858"><strong>Rose Garden</strong></a> is a grey-based 3-column theme, available in medium and wide varieties.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9915" title="spinnylite" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/spinnylite.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/spinnylite-wordpress-theme/"><strong>SpinnyLite</strong></a> is a wood-textured WordPress theme with 125&#215;125 ads, featured posts, threaded comments and twitter support.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/P0I8Jlwx0IQ" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:00:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1745:"<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9912" title="thebible" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/thebible.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://emptynestthemes.emptynestheritage.com/archives/834"><strong>The Bible</strong></a> is a Bible-themed 2-column theme, available in narrow and medium varieties.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9913" title="retro-fitted" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/retro-fitted.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://themehybrid.com/themes/retro-fitted"><strong>Retro-fitted</strong></a> is a fun blogging theme that&#8217;s perfect for the spring and summer months. It supports WordPress nav menus, has several widget areas, and allows per-post layouts (one, two, and three-column options).</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9914" title="rosegarden" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/rosegarden.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://emptynestthemes.emptynestheritage.com/archives/858"><strong>Rose Garden</strong></a> is a grey-based 3-column theme, available in medium and wide varieties.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9915" title="spinnylite" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/spinnylite.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignlessons.com/spinnylite-wordpress-theme/"><strong>SpinnyLite</strong></a> is a wood-textured WordPress theme with 125&#215;125 ads, featured posts, threaded comments and twitter support.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/P0I8Jlwx0IQ" height="1" width="1" />";}i:12;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Publisher Blog: Upcoming WordCamps";s:4:"guid";s:43:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/?p=1398";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2011/04/18/upcoming-wordcamps-2/";s:11:"description";s:2835:"<p><a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1399 alignright" title="WordCamp logo" src="http://wordpresspublishers.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/picture-61.png?w=300&h=83" alt="WordCamp logo" width="300" height="83" /></a>On the <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/">WordPress.org News blog</a>, Jane has highlighted some upcoming WordCamps:</p>
<blockquote><p>Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual conferences of, by, and for WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts just like you. The focus of a WordCamp is to foster face-to-face connections and collaboration among the local WordPress crowd, but there are usually some out-of-towners there as well.</p></blockquote>
<p>Click through to see the <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/summer-wordcamps-201/">latest approved WordCamps for this summer</a>, and visit <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Central</a> for all upcoming WordCamps, and information on how to help organize or participate in one.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual conferences of, by, and for WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts just like you. The focus of a WordCamp is to foster face-to-face connections and collaboration among the local WordPress crowd, but there are usually some out-of-towners there as well.</p></blockquote>
<p>Click through to see the <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/summer-wordcamps-201/">latest approved WordCamps for this summer</a>, and visit <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Central</a> for all upcoming WordCamps, and information on how to help organize or participate in one.</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wordpresspublishers.wordpress.com/1398/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=publisherblog.automattic.com&blog=1470857&post=1398&subd=wordpresspublishers&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:66:"Weblog Tools Collection: Why You Should Join the Theme Review Team";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=9906";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/4dSFte6JJ1M/";s:11:"description";s:900:"<p>You may know that the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/">WordPress Theme Review Team</a> is responsible for keeping <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">the official theme directory</a> free of malware, sponsored themes, and other such junk, but did you know that the team is staffed entirely by volunteers?</p>
<p>Former Theme Review Team skeptic <a href="http://justintadlock.com/">Justin Tadlock</a> recently joined the team, and took the time to <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/04/14/join-the-wordpress-theme-review-team">share a few words</a> on why you should consider joining as well.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested, the team <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/how-to-join-wptrt/">is always looking</a> for a few new volunteers.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/4dSFte6JJ1M" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:00:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:900:"<p>You may know that the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/">WordPress Theme Review Team</a> is responsible for keeping <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">the official theme directory</a> free of malware, sponsored themes, and other such junk, but did you know that the team is staffed entirely by volunteers?</p>
<p>Former Theme Review Team skeptic <a href="http://justintadlock.com/">Justin Tadlock</a> recently joined the team, and took the time to <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/04/14/join-the-wordpress-theme-review-team">share a few words</a> on why you should consider joining as well.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested, the team <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/how-to-join-wptrt/">is always looking</a> for a few new volunteers.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/4dSFte6JJ1M" height="1" width="1" />";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"WP Android: Version 1.4 Now Available";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://android.wordpress.org/?p=382";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://android.wordpress.org/2011/04/18/version-1-4-now-available/";s:11:"description";s:4451:"<p>A new update of WordPress for Android is now available in Android Market. We&#8217;re pleased to introduce version 1.4, which adds some very powerful features! Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new:</p>
<h3>Post Scheduling</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-385" title="wp-android-setdate" src="http://wpandroid.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wp-android-setdate.jpg?w=244&h=175" alt="" width="244" height="175" /></p>
<p>You can now easily set the publish date and time in the app when creating a post or page. The date can be set to the future which will set the post status to &#8216;Scheduled&#8217; and publish on your blog when the time arrives. You can also edit existing posts and tweak the published date and time if desired.</p>
<h3>Post Password</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-384" title="wp-android-postpassword" src="http://wpandroid.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wp-android-postpassword.jpg?w=244&h=146" alt="" width="244" height="146" /></p>
<p>At the bottom of the post editor we&#8217;ve added a Post Password field to help protect your content. Simply enter a password here and the post will require that the password be entered for viewing on the blog when published. You can also add or remove a password from published posts as well.</p>
<h3>HTTP Authentication Support</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-383" title="wp-android-httppswd" src="http://wpandroid.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wp-android-httppswd.jpg?w=244&h=197" alt="" width="244" height="197" /></p>
<p>Is your self-hosted blog protected with an HTTP Authentication username and password? We&#8217;ve added support for entering the Authentication credentials in the blog settings so that you can manage your blog through the app. To access the Authentication settings, add a self-hosted blog to the app and select &#8216;Optional Settings&#8217; in the setup area. </p>
<h3>Additional Changes</h3>
<p>We&#8217;ve tidied up a few more things in the 1.4 update, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added secure password storage to the local database.</li>
<li>&#8216;Unapproved&#8217; comments now have a yellow tint.</li>
<li>Added &#8216;Today&#8217; option in stats.</li>
<li>Fixed crash when alert dialog was trying to be shown after the app was closed.</li>
<li>Fixed crash related to large post ID values.</li>
</ul>
<p>Remember, WordPress for Android is an Open Source project. Most of the features in this release were contributed by volunteer developers in the community. Big thanks to <strong>chdorner</strong> and <strong>jnijhof</strong> for their hard work! Get in touch with us on our <a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org">Developer Blog</a> if you&#8217;d like to contribute to the project.</p>
<p>WordPress for Android 1.4 is available in <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wordpress.android">Android Market</a> for free. Download it now!</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=android.wordpress.org&blog=9426921&post=382&subd=wpandroid&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:01:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"Dan";}s:7:"summary";s:4451:"<p>A new update of WordPress for Android is now available in Android Market. We&#8217;re pleased to introduce version 1.4, which adds some very powerful features! Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new:</p>
<h3>Post Scheduling</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-385" title="wp-android-setdate" src="http://wpandroid.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wp-android-setdate.jpg?w=244&h=175" alt="" width="244" height="175" /></p>
<p>You can now easily set the publish date and time in the app when creating a post or page. The date can be set to the future which will set the post status to &#8216;Scheduled&#8217; and publish on your blog when the time arrives. You can also edit existing posts and tweak the published date and time if desired.</p>
<h3>Post Password</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-384" title="wp-android-postpassword" src="http://wpandroid.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wp-android-postpassword.jpg?w=244&h=146" alt="" width="244" height="146" /></p>
<p>At the bottom of the post editor we&#8217;ve added a Post Password field to help protect your content. Simply enter a password here and the post will require that the password be entered for viewing on the blog when published. You can also add or remove a password from published posts as well.</p>
<h3>HTTP Authentication Support</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-383" title="wp-android-httppswd" src="http://wpandroid.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wp-android-httppswd.jpg?w=244&h=197" alt="" width="244" height="197" /></p>
<p>Is your self-hosted blog protected with an HTTP Authentication username and password? We&#8217;ve added support for entering the Authentication credentials in the blog settings so that you can manage your blog through the app. To access the Authentication settings, add a self-hosted blog to the app and select &#8216;Optional Settings&#8217; in the setup area. </p>
<h3>Additional Changes</h3>
<p>We&#8217;ve tidied up a few more things in the 1.4 update, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added secure password storage to the local database.</li>
<li>&#8216;Unapproved&#8217; comments now have a yellow tint.</li>
<li>Added &#8216;Today&#8217; option in stats.</li>
<li>Fixed crash when alert dialog was trying to be shown after the app was closed.</li>
<li>Fixed crash related to large post ID values.</li>
</ul>
<p>Remember, WordPress for Android is an Open Source project. Most of the features in this release were contributed by volunteer developers in the community. Big thanks to <strong>chdorner</strong> and <strong>jnijhof</strong> for their hard work! Get in touch with us on our <a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org">Developer Blog</a> if you&#8217;d like to contribute to the project.</p>
<p>WordPress for Android 1.4 is available in <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wordpress.android">Android Market</a> for free. Download it now!</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/wpandroid.wordpress.com/382/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=android.wordpress.org&blog=9426921&post=382&subd=wpandroid&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Matt: Leading by Omission";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=37968";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://ma.tt/2011/04/leading-by-omission/";s:11:"description";s:115:"<p>Ricardo Semler on <a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/308">Leading by Omission</a>, a good weekend watch.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:47:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:115:"<p>Ricardo Semler on <a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/308">Leading by Omission</a>, a good weekend watch.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"WPCandy: WordPress Community Links: the sleepless in Seattle edition";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17227";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/JFRpNHDxkIY/the-seattle-edition-community-links";s:11:"description";s:6539:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17227"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17430" title="sleepless wordpress" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/sleepless.jpg" alt="sleepless wordpress" width="600" height="314" /></a></p><p>Did I hear someone say they&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock for the past week, and missed out on all the juicy WordPress information thats been posted on the internet? Well as I&#8217;m sure most of you are all aware, the WPCandy team have been at WordCamp Seattle over the weekend, so this edition of WordPress Community Links is dedicated to them, and the <a href="http://twitter.com/wpcandy/status/59498033120952320">after_after_party</a>.</p><p>So have no fear, rock or no rock, WPCandy is here ready with links you can sink your teeth into just after the jump.</p><p><span id="more-17227"></span>Up first are the blog posts:</p><ul><li>Giving back to the WordPress community can be done in a varity of different ways. One particular way might be becoming part of the WordPress Theme Review team, in which <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/04/14/join-the-wordpress-theme-review-team">Justin Tadlock is encouraging</a> people to do.</li><li>John James Jacoby shows off his new <a href="http://johnjamesjacoby.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/poppas-got-a-brand-new-bag/">WordPress bag</a> for Poppa. <em>Looks pretty cool!</em></li><li>With the release of 2.7.2 of WordPress for iOS and the app becoming much more stable, Isaac Keyet talks about <a href="http://ios.wordpress.org/2011/04/05/whats-next-for-wordpress-for-ios/">what&#8217;s next for 2.8</a>. What would you like to see?</li><li>WPShout needs your help. They are looking to create the most accurate view of <a href="http://wpshout.com/the-wordpress-hosting-review-survey/">which hosts are best for WordPress</a>. You have until Friday 22nd April to fill out a short questionaire before WPShout compiles the results.</li><li>Speaking about WordPress hosts, Joshua Strebel of Page.ly published an article on the blog where he talks about <a href="http://blog.page.ly/2011/04/staying-married-after-customers-say-i-do/">looking after the customer</a> from day one, going that extra mile and standing out from the crowd.</li><li>Douglas Van Bossuyt talks about <a href="http://www.douglasvanbossuyt.com/2011/02/06/what-vaultpress-means-to-me">what ValutPress means for him</a>.</li><li>Ryan Ray started working for WooThemes as their Community Manager last month. <a href="http://www.ryancannonray.com/i-got-hired/">In this post</a>, he speaks about his enthusiasm, why he went for the job, and offers some hints and tips for others looking to get their dream job. If you&#8217;re applying for any <a title="WordPress loving PHP developers are in high demand" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordpress-php-developer-jobs">positions WPCandy covered</a>, would you apply some of Ryan&#8217;s information?</li><li>WordPress.org has posted a list of <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/summer-wordcamps-201/">upcoming Summer WordCamps</a> for 2011. Will you be attending any? You know the WPCandy team <a href="http://wpcandy.com/on/wordcamp">loves WordCamps</a>.</li></ul><p>Second, we&#8217;ve got tutorials for all ages:</p><ul><li> Michael Martin is back again with another post in his Event Series, this time showing us how to <a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/add-a-jquery-datepicker-to-event-posts-wp/">add a jQuery DatePicker</a> (in a Meta Box) to the &#8220;Add New Event&#8221; screen.</li><li>From adding a Meta Box, to removing a Meta Box. Justin Tadlock shows us how you can <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/04/13/uncluttering-the-post-editing-screen-in-wordpress">unclutter the Post Editing screen</a> without using the Screen Options, removing it completely.</li><li>WPBeginner is out with an <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/why-you-need-a-cdn-for-your-wordpress-blog-infographic/">infographic</a> on why you need a CDN for your WordPress site.</li><li>Oli Dale, of WPLift, talks about <a href="http://wplift.com/monetize-your-blog-with-affiliate-links-plugins-advice">using affiliate links</a>, and recommends some plugins to handle them.</li><li>Adam Heitzman of Six Revisions has written a nice post with some tips for <a href="http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/fine-tuning-wordpress-seo/">fine-tuning WordPress</a> for SEO.</li><li>Sarah Gooding from WPMU.org shows us how to <a href="http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-how-to-add-custom-twentyten-headers-for-each-category/">add custom TwentyTen headers</a> for each category with a pretty cool plugin.</li><li>Pippin Williamson of WP Mods, has written a quick tutorial on <a href="http://www.wpmods.com/get-adjacent-posts-currently-viewed-post">getting adjacent posts</a> to the one you&#8217;re currently viewing through the use of a WordPress function.</li><li>Also at WP Mods, a tutorial on customising the default <a href="http://www.wpmods.com/customising-default-search-box">WordPress search box</a>.</li><li>Joost de Valk gave a nice quick tip to use RSS feeds to help <a href="http://yoast.com/custom-post-type-feeds-google/">get custom post types indexed</a> by Google.</li></ul><p>Thirdly it&#8217;s resources. Just a couple this week:</p><ul><li>Development on WordPress 3.2 is going strong. The project schedule has been published. It changed quite a number of times throughout the 3.1 development, but the Core Developers are hoping to stick to the schedule this time around. You can keep up over on the <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/version-3-2-project-schedule/">WPDevel blog.</a></li><li>The auto-update feature in WordPress is incredible, but if you&#8217;ve ever had an auto-update fail it feels like the whole world has just caved in on your site. Well Jeff Starr of DigWP.com <a href="http://digwp.com/2011/04/wordpress-auto-updates/">walks us through</a> the steps required to sort the error, and get your site back up and running again!</li></ul><p>And that wraps it up for this weeks WordPress Community Links. If you have a link you think should be in our weekly roundup, then please do <a href="http://wpcandy.com/is/here">get in touch</a>. We don&#8217;t bite. Honest.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17227">WordPress Community Links: the sleepless in Seattle edition</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:27:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:15:"Mark McWilliams";}s:7:"summary";s:6539:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17227"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17430" title="sleepless wordpress" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/sleepless.jpg" alt="sleepless wordpress" width="600" height="314" /></a></p><p>Did I hear someone say they&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock for the past week, and missed out on all the juicy WordPress information thats been posted on the internet? Well as I&#8217;m sure most of you are all aware, the WPCandy team have been at WordCamp Seattle over the weekend, so this edition of WordPress Community Links is dedicated to them, and the <a href="http://twitter.com/wpcandy/status/59498033120952320">after_after_party</a>.</p><p>So have no fear, rock or no rock, WPCandy is here ready with links you can sink your teeth into just after the jump.</p><p><span id="more-17227"></span>Up first are the blog posts:</p><ul><li>Giving back to the WordPress community can be done in a varity of different ways. One particular way might be becoming part of the WordPress Theme Review team, in which <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/04/14/join-the-wordpress-theme-review-team">Justin Tadlock is encouraging</a> people to do.</li><li>John James Jacoby shows off his new <a href="http://johnjamesjacoby.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/poppas-got-a-brand-new-bag/">WordPress bag</a> for Poppa. <em>Looks pretty cool!</em></li><li>With the release of 2.7.2 of WordPress for iOS and the app becoming much more stable, Isaac Keyet talks about <a href="http://ios.wordpress.org/2011/04/05/whats-next-for-wordpress-for-ios/">what&#8217;s next for 2.8</a>. What would you like to see?</li><li>WPShout needs your help. They are looking to create the most accurate view of <a href="http://wpshout.com/the-wordpress-hosting-review-survey/">which hosts are best for WordPress</a>. You have until Friday 22nd April to fill out a short questionaire before WPShout compiles the results.</li><li>Speaking about WordPress hosts, Joshua Strebel of Page.ly published an article on the blog where he talks about <a href="http://blog.page.ly/2011/04/staying-married-after-customers-say-i-do/">looking after the customer</a> from day one, going that extra mile and standing out from the crowd.</li><li>Douglas Van Bossuyt talks about <a href="http://www.douglasvanbossuyt.com/2011/02/06/what-vaultpress-means-to-me">what ValutPress means for him</a>.</li><li>Ryan Ray started working for WooThemes as their Community Manager last month. <a href="http://www.ryancannonray.com/i-got-hired/">In this post</a>, he speaks about his enthusiasm, why he went for the job, and offers some hints and tips for others looking to get their dream job. If you&#8217;re applying for any <a title="WordPress loving PHP developers are in high demand" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordpress-php-developer-jobs">positions WPCandy covered</a>, would you apply some of Ryan&#8217;s information?</li><li>WordPress.org has posted a list of <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/summer-wordcamps-201/">upcoming Summer WordCamps</a> for 2011. Will you be attending any? You know the WPCandy team <a href="http://wpcandy.com/on/wordcamp">loves WordCamps</a>.</li></ul><p>Second, we&#8217;ve got tutorials for all ages:</p><ul><li> Michael Martin is back again with another post in his Event Series, this time showing us how to <a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/add-a-jquery-datepicker-to-event-posts-wp/">add a jQuery DatePicker</a> (in a Meta Box) to the &#8220;Add New Event&#8221; screen.</li><li>From adding a Meta Box, to removing a Meta Box. Justin Tadlock shows us how you can <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/04/13/uncluttering-the-post-editing-screen-in-wordpress">unclutter the Post Editing screen</a> without using the Screen Options, removing it completely.</li><li>WPBeginner is out with an <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/why-you-need-a-cdn-for-your-wordpress-blog-infographic/">infographic</a> on why you need a CDN for your WordPress site.</li><li>Oli Dale, of WPLift, talks about <a href="http://wplift.com/monetize-your-blog-with-affiliate-links-plugins-advice">using affiliate links</a>, and recommends some plugins to handle them.</li><li>Adam Heitzman of Six Revisions has written a nice post with some tips for <a href="http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/fine-tuning-wordpress-seo/">fine-tuning WordPress</a> for SEO.</li><li>Sarah Gooding from WPMU.org shows us how to <a href="http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-how-to-add-custom-twentyten-headers-for-each-category/">add custom TwentyTen headers</a> for each category with a pretty cool plugin.</li><li>Pippin Williamson of WP Mods, has written a quick tutorial on <a href="http://www.wpmods.com/get-adjacent-posts-currently-viewed-post">getting adjacent posts</a> to the one you&#8217;re currently viewing through the use of a WordPress function.</li><li>Also at WP Mods, a tutorial on customising the default <a href="http://www.wpmods.com/customising-default-search-box">WordPress search box</a>.</li><li>Joost de Valk gave a nice quick tip to use RSS feeds to help <a href="http://yoast.com/custom-post-type-feeds-google/">get custom post types indexed</a> by Google.</li></ul><p>Thirdly it&#8217;s resources. Just a couple this week:</p><ul><li>Development on WordPress 3.2 is going strong. The project schedule has been published. It changed quite a number of times throughout the 3.1 development, but the Core Developers are hoping to stick to the schedule this time around. You can keep up over on the <a href="http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/version-3-2-project-schedule/">WPDevel blog.</a></li><li>The auto-update feature in WordPress is incredible, but if you&#8217;ve ever had an auto-update fail it feels like the whole world has just caved in on your site. Well Jeff Starr of DigWP.com <a href="http://digwp.com/2011/04/wordpress-auto-updates/">walks us through</a> the steps required to sort the error, and get your site back up and running again!</li></ul><p>And that wraps it up for this weeks WordPress Community Links. If you have a link you think should be in our weekly roundup, then please do <a href="http://wpcandy.com/is/here">get in touch</a>. We don&#8217;t bite. Honest.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17227">WordPress Community Links: the sleepless in Seattle edition</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/17";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=9904";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/QdCZLqi6R4k/";s:11:"description";s:1339:"<h3>New plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imageshare/"><strong>ImageShare</strong></a> adds social bookmarking buttons to images in your blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://erikras.com/wordpress-plugins/javascript-flickr-badge/"><strong>Javascript Flickr Badge</strong></a> uses pure javascript to place a Flickr badge in your widget-enabled sidebar to display recent photos.</p>
<p><a href="http://t31os.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/my-first-plugin-on-wordpress-extend/"><strong>Post UI Tabs</strong></a> allows you to create jQuery tabs inside your posts, pages or post types using simple shortcodes inside the post editor.</p>
<h3>Updated plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ie6-upgrade-option/"><strong>IE6 Upgrade Option</strong></a> displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the user that their browser is out of date while providing links to download newer, more optimal browser choices.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designchemical.com/blog/index.php/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-plugin-jquery-vertical-mega-menu-widget/"><strong>jQuery Vertical Mega Menu</strong></a> allows you to quickly and easily create vertical mega menus from any WordPress custom menu.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/QdCZLqi6R4k" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:00:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1339:"<h3>New plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imageshare/"><strong>ImageShare</strong></a> adds social bookmarking buttons to images in your blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://erikras.com/wordpress-plugins/javascript-flickr-badge/"><strong>Javascript Flickr Badge</strong></a> uses pure javascript to place a Flickr badge in your widget-enabled sidebar to display recent photos.</p>
<p><a href="http://t31os.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/my-first-plugin-on-wordpress-extend/"><strong>Post UI Tabs</strong></a> allows you to create jQuery tabs inside your posts, pages or post types using simple shortcodes inside the post editor.</p>
<h3>Updated plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ie6-upgrade-option/"><strong>IE6 Upgrade Option</strong></a> displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the user that their browser is out of date while providing links to download newer, more optimal browser choices.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designchemical.com/blog/index.php/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-plugin-jquery-vertical-mega-menu-widget/"><strong>jQuery Vertical Mega Menu</strong></a> allows you to quickly and easily create vertical mega menus from any WordPress custom menu.</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/QdCZLqi6R4k" height="1" width="1" />";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Dev Blog: Summer WordCamps 2011";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://wordpress.org/news/?p=1785";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/summer-wordcamps-201/";s:11:"description";s:6112:"<p>Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual conferences of, by, and for WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts just like you. The focus of a WordCamp is to foster face-to-face connections and collaboration among the local WordPress crowd, but there are usually some out-of-towners there as well. Here are the WordCamps that have been approved so far for the summer:</p>
<p>April 16: <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/">WordCamp Seattle</a> in Seattle, WA. This weekend! After taking a year off, WordCamp Seattle is back with tracks for bloggers, designers, and developers. This year they&#8217;ll feature a lineup including presentations by both local speakers and visitors like core committer Andrew Nacin, as well as an Ignite session of lightning talks at the end of the day.</p>
<p>May 5: <a href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/">WordCamp Vancouver (Developer Edition)</a> in Vancouver, BC. This one-day WordCamp is aimed purely at developers working on the WordPress platform, and will not have content aimed at bloggers (as previous Vancouver WordCamps have). I predict we will start seeing more of these types of niche WordCamps moving forward, because they will mean smaller, more intimate events that allow more collaboration (and make it easier to find venues!). Note that we&#8217;re working with the organizers to get the tickets to a more reasonable price, so keep your eyes open this week if you&#8217;ve held off on buying a ticket because of the price tag.</p>
<p>May 7: <a href="http://wordcamp-switzerland.ch/">WordCamp Switzerland</a> in Brugg, Switzerland. This one will cover a wide range of topics, including getting started with WordPress, advanced development topics, BuddyPress, and an inside look at running a WordPress-based business.</p>
<p>May 14: <a href="http://www.ocwordcamp.com/">WordCamp Orange County</a> in Orange, CA. Already sold out! Orange County had their first WordCamp last year, and the organizers have put together another great event this time around.</p>
<p>May 14: <a href="http://paris14mai2011.wordcamp.fr/">WordCamp Paris</a> in Paris, France. One of the last true unconference-style WordCamps, the Paris group will plan their schedule the morning of the event like they do at BarCamps. WordCamp Paris had one of the best WordCamp t-shirts ever a couple of years ago. And it&#8217;s in Paris in the spring.</p>
<p>May 21–22: <a href="http://wordcampraleigh.com/">WordCamp Raleigh</a> in Raleigh, NC. Repeat organizers from the Raleigh WordPress Meetup Group are just starting to select speakers and put together their plans, but if it is anything like last year, the venue will be packed with WordPress professionals (and maybe there will be cookies). I&#8217;ll be attending this one, as will Nacin.</p>
<p>June 4–5: <a href="http://2011.reno.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe</a> in Reno, NV. Organized by a WordPress core UI group contributor, WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe is taking place in Reno and has a packed schedule full of visiting experts.</p>
<p>June 11–12: <a href="http://www.wckansascity.org/">WordCamp Kansas City</a> in Overland Park, KS. With publisher, designer, and developer tracks, Kansas City&#8217;s WordCamp will have a little something for everyone, presented in large part by local speakers.</p>
<p>June 17–19: <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/">WordCamp Columbus</a> in Columbus, OH. WordCamp Columbus has a new organizer this year and is bringing the focus more firmly onto WordPress (and less on social media). Their 3-day event includes an entire day for newbies, and another for non-profits, a nice addition to the usual blogger/developer tracks.</p>
<p>July 9–10: <a href="http://wcmtl.org/">WordCamp Montreal</a> in Montreal, Quebec. This group consistently puts on a great every year. If you register now, you can still get a $10 discount and get both days for only $30 (with sessions in both English and French to reflect the bilingual nature of the city). Montreal plays host to a number of <a href="http://www.montreal.com/tourism/festivals/index.html">festivals</a> throughout the year, and this weekend is no different, including festivals for the arts, comedy, tango, and even circus arts.</p>
<p>July 16: <a href="http://2011.sandiego.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Diego</a> in San Diego, CA. First WordCamp in San Diego! They have talking about this for over a year, and are now starting to really ramp up the planning. They&#8217;re finalizing their venue right now, and I would expect a great roster of speakers.</p>
<p>July 16-17: <a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.org/Main_Page">WordCamp Portsmouth</a> in Portsmouth, UK. The annual WordCamp UK that moves from city to city each year alights this year in Portsmouth. This one is notable because Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is part of the organizing team.</p>
<p>July 23–24: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a> in Boston, MA. Another one just about to lock down some details and get starting with speaker selection, etc. An easy train ride from so many places, and not in the middle of winter this year!</p>
<p>July 30-31: <a href="http://2011.chicago.wordcamp.org">WordCamp Chicago</a> has new organizers and is a new venue this year. A call for speakers, supporters, and volunteers will likely be posted sometime next week.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/">WordCamp Portland</a> is looking for a venue before deciding on a date this year, as it has outgrown the space it&#8217;s used the past two years, but hopes to happen in September. If you would be interested in donating a venue to this popular event, please <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/">contact them</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll hold off on posting fall events until later in the summer since there a lot in the planning stages now. To get the most up-to-date information, visit <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/">WordCamp Central</a>.</p>
<p>Hope to see you at a WordCamp soon!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:06:55 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:7:"summary";s:6112:"<p>Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual conferences of, by, and for WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts just like you. The focus of a WordCamp is to foster face-to-face connections and collaboration among the local WordPress crowd, but there are usually some out-of-towners there as well. Here are the WordCamps that have been approved so far for the summer:</p>
<p>April 16: <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/">WordCamp Seattle</a> in Seattle, WA. This weekend! After taking a year off, WordCamp Seattle is back with tracks for bloggers, designers, and developers. This year they&#8217;ll feature a lineup including presentations by both local speakers and visitors like core committer Andrew Nacin, as well as an Ignite session of lightning talks at the end of the day.</p>
<p>May 5: <a href="http://wordcampdevelopers.com/">WordCamp Vancouver (Developer Edition)</a> in Vancouver, BC. This one-day WordCamp is aimed purely at developers working on the WordPress platform, and will not have content aimed at bloggers (as previous Vancouver WordCamps have). I predict we will start seeing more of these types of niche WordCamps moving forward, because they will mean smaller, more intimate events that allow more collaboration (and make it easier to find venues!). Note that we&#8217;re working with the organizers to get the tickets to a more reasonable price, so keep your eyes open this week if you&#8217;ve held off on buying a ticket because of the price tag.</p>
<p>May 7: <a href="http://wordcamp-switzerland.ch/">WordCamp Switzerland</a> in Brugg, Switzerland. This one will cover a wide range of topics, including getting started with WordPress, advanced development topics, BuddyPress, and an inside look at running a WordPress-based business.</p>
<p>May 14: <a href="http://www.ocwordcamp.com/">WordCamp Orange County</a> in Orange, CA. Already sold out! Orange County had their first WordCamp last year, and the organizers have put together another great event this time around.</p>
<p>May 14: <a href="http://paris14mai2011.wordcamp.fr/">WordCamp Paris</a> in Paris, France. One of the last true unconference-style WordCamps, the Paris group will plan their schedule the morning of the event like they do at BarCamps. WordCamp Paris had one of the best WordCamp t-shirts ever a couple of years ago. And it&#8217;s in Paris in the spring.</p>
<p>May 21–22: <a href="http://wordcampraleigh.com/">WordCamp Raleigh</a> in Raleigh, NC. Repeat organizers from the Raleigh WordPress Meetup Group are just starting to select speakers and put together their plans, but if it is anything like last year, the venue will be packed with WordPress professionals (and maybe there will be cookies). I&#8217;ll be attending this one, as will Nacin.</p>
<p>June 4–5: <a href="http://2011.reno.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe</a> in Reno, NV. Organized by a WordPress core UI group contributor, WordCamp Reno-Lake Tahoe is taking place in Reno and has a packed schedule full of visiting experts.</p>
<p>June 11–12: <a href="http://www.wckansascity.org/">WordCamp Kansas City</a> in Overland Park, KS. With publisher, designer, and developer tracks, Kansas City&#8217;s WordCamp will have a little something for everyone, presented in large part by local speakers.</p>
<p>June 17–19: <a href="http://wordcampcolumbus.com/">WordCamp Columbus</a> in Columbus, OH. WordCamp Columbus has a new organizer this year and is bringing the focus more firmly onto WordPress (and less on social media). Their 3-day event includes an entire day for newbies, and another for non-profits, a nice addition to the usual blogger/developer tracks.</p>
<p>July 9–10: <a href="http://wcmtl.org/">WordCamp Montreal</a> in Montreal, Quebec. This group consistently puts on a great every year. If you register now, you can still get a $10 discount and get both days for only $30 (with sessions in both English and French to reflect the bilingual nature of the city). Montreal plays host to a number of <a href="http://www.montreal.com/tourism/festivals/index.html">festivals</a> throughout the year, and this weekend is no different, including festivals for the arts, comedy, tango, and even circus arts.</p>
<p>July 16: <a href="http://2011.sandiego.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Diego</a> in San Diego, CA. First WordCamp in San Diego! They have talking about this for over a year, and are now starting to really ramp up the planning. They&#8217;re finalizing their venue right now, and I would expect a great roster of speakers.</p>
<p>July 16-17: <a href="http://wiki.wordcampuk.org/Main_Page">WordCamp Portsmouth</a> in Portsmouth, UK. The annual WordCamp UK that moves from city to city each year alights this year in Portsmouth. This one is notable because Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is part of the organizing team.</p>
<p>July 23–24: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a> in Boston, MA. Another one just about to lock down some details and get starting with speaker selection, etc. An easy train ride from so many places, and not in the middle of winter this year!</p>
<p>July 30-31: <a href="http://2011.chicago.wordcamp.org">WordCamp Chicago</a> has new organizers and is a new venue this year. A call for speakers, supporters, and volunteers will likely be posted sometime next week.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/">WordCamp Portland</a> is looking for a venue before deciding on a date this year, as it has outgrown the space it&#8217;s used the past two years, but hopes to happen in September. If you would be interested in donating a venue to this popular event, please <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/">contact them</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll hold off on posting fall events until later in the summer since there a lot in the planning stages now. To get the most up-to-date information, visit <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/">WordCamp Central</a>.</p>
<p>Hope to see you at a WordCamp soon!</p>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:81:"WPCandy: WordCamp Seattle will be live streamed today, starting 9am Pacific/UTC-8";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17100";s:4:"link";s:116:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/iCY7rOXpIqQ/wordcamp-seattle-2011-will-be-live-streamed-today-starting-9am";s:11:"description";s:2111:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17100"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17101" title="WordCamp Seattle Live Stream (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampseattlelivestream-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>WordCamp Seattle, this weekend&#8217;s WordPress event <em><a title="WPCandy coverage of WordCamp Seattle 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-seattle">de jour</a></em>, will be live streamed on their blog starting at 9:00am Pacific (UTC-8). Of the three tracks taking place today, the User/Blogger track and the Development track will each be live streamed.</p><ul><li><span><a title="WordCamp Seattle live stream for the User/Blogger track" href="http://live.blazestreaming.com/wcsea/2011/blogger.html">Watch the User/Blogger stream</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Watch the WordCamp Seattle live stream for the Development track" href="http://live.blazestreaming.com/wcsea/2011/developer.html">Watch the Development stream</a></span></li><li><span><a title="WPCandy WordCamp Seattle liveblog" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-seattle-2011">Watch the WPCandy liveblog</a></span></li></ul><p>See what I did there? We&#8217;ll also be augmenting the WordCamp Seattle live streams with our own <a title="WPCandy WordCamp Seattle liveblog" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-seattle-2011">liveblogging</a>. We&#8217;ll be in every session, so it should be fun finding out just how nuts the liveblog will become.</p><p>I&#8217;m also curious: as you look at <a title="WordCamp Seattle agenda" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/agenda/">today&#8217;s schedule</a>, which presentations look most interesting to you? If you were here, which sessions would you be sure not to miss? Who would you want to meet?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17100">WordCamp Seattle will be live streamed today, starting 9am Pacific/UTC-8</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:36:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:2111:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17100"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17101" title="WordCamp Seattle Live Stream (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampseattlelivestream-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>WordCamp Seattle, this weekend&#8217;s WordPress event <em><a title="WPCandy coverage of WordCamp Seattle 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-seattle">de jour</a></em>, will be live streamed on their blog starting at 9:00am Pacific (UTC-8). Of the three tracks taking place today, the User/Blogger track and the Development track will each be live streamed.</p><ul><li><span><a title="WordCamp Seattle live stream for the User/Blogger track" href="http://live.blazestreaming.com/wcsea/2011/blogger.html">Watch the User/Blogger stream</a></span></li><li><span><a title="Watch the WordCamp Seattle live stream for the Development track" href="http://live.blazestreaming.com/wcsea/2011/developer.html">Watch the Development stream</a></span></li><li><span><a title="WPCandy WordCamp Seattle liveblog" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-seattle-2011">Watch the WPCandy liveblog</a></span></li></ul><p>See what I did there? We&#8217;ll also be augmenting the WordCamp Seattle live streams with our own <a title="WPCandy WordCamp Seattle liveblog" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-seattle-2011">liveblogging</a>. We&#8217;ll be in every session, so it should be fun finding out just how nuts the liveblog will become.</p><p>I&#8217;m also curious: as you look at <a title="WordCamp Seattle agenda" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/agenda/">today&#8217;s schedule</a>, which presentations look most interesting to you? If you were here, which sessions would you be sure not to miss? Who would you want to meet?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17100">WordCamp Seattle will be live streamed today, starting 9am Pacific/UTC-8</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Weblog Tools Collection: Send us Plugins to Review";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=9901";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/FOop3WUZA7Q/";s:11:"description";s:1092:"<p>A week ago, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2011/04/08/plugin-reviews-inspections-and-audits/">we asked</a> if you&#8217;d be interested in seeing a few plugin reviews from us. I&#8217;m happy to say that the response was overwhelmingly positive. As of today, 96.97% said &#8220;Of course I would!&#8221; and only 3.03% said &#8220;Yawn, boring!&#8221;</p>
<p>With that said, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-plugins-for-review/">the new plugin review submission form</a> is ready to go!</p>
<p>Is there a plugin that you’d like reviewed? Maybe you aren’t sure if it’s the right plugin for you, or maybe you want to know how it stacks up against the competition? Well, please let us know, and we just might review it!</p>
<p>Please note that this is a service for the readers of Weblog Tools Collection. Developer-submitted review requests will be discarded.</p>
<p>Well, what are you waiting for? Let&#8217;s get some reviews lined up!</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/FOop3WUZA7Q" height="1" width="1" />";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:00:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"James Huff";}s:7:"summary";s:1092:"<p>A week ago, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2011/04/08/plugin-reviews-inspections-and-audits/">we asked</a> if you&#8217;d be interested in seeing a few plugin reviews from us. I&#8217;m happy to say that the response was overwhelmingly positive. As of today, 96.97% said &#8220;Of course I would!&#8221; and only 3.03% said &#8220;Yawn, boring!&#8221;</p>
<p>With that said, <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/submit-plugins-for-review/">the new plugin review submission form</a> is ready to go!</p>
<p>Is there a plugin that you’d like reviewed? Maybe you aren’t sure if it’s the right plugin for you, or maybe you want to know how it stacks up against the competition? Well, please let us know, and we just might review it!</p>
<p>Please note that this is a service for the readers of Weblog Tools Collection. Developer-submitted review requests will be discarded.</p>
<p>Well, what are you waiting for? Let&#8217;s get some reviews lined up!</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~4/FOop3WUZA7Q" height="1" width="1" />";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:93:"WPCandy: Pro Theme Design launches true testing bed for themes, new blog devoted to Elemental";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17079";s:4:"link";s:107:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/oQmFIaCvysM/pro-theme-design-launches-true-testing-bed-for-themes";s:11:"description";s:2084:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17079"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17080" title="Pro Theme Design testing themes (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/prothemedesignthemetesting-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="272" /></a></p><p>This piece of news falls under the &#8220;cool news we didn&#8217;t quite get to right when it happened&#8221; category. Ben Gillbanks of Pro Theme Design (which <a title="Theme Madness Round 1 winners" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-2-and-3-winners">survived Round 1</a> of Theme Madness and will play again <a title="Pro Theme Design in Theme Madness" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">next week</a>) launched a new <a title="Pro Theme Design testing ground" href="http://prothemedesign.com/preview/">testing ground</a> for their paid WordPress themes.</p><p>Instead of a demo filled with example content, potential customers can now create a site using WordPress Multisite and apply a theme they would like to test out. Then, the theme can be used in just about every which way (aside from modifying its files, of course) to give the user a solid idea of what to expect when they purchase and install it.</p><p>What about all of the extra demonstration sites cluttering up Pro Theme Design&#8217;s world wide home? They thought of that: all created sites are cleared out every 36 hours. What do you think of this method, and have you seen any other theme developers or services using it?</p><p>While you&#8217;re digging into noteworthy Pro Theme Design activity, have a look at their blog for <em>Elemental</em> theme users and developers called <a title="Elemental Hub for users of Elemental" href="http://elementalhub.com/">Elemental Hub</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17079">Pro Theme Design launches true testing bed for themes, new blog devoted to Elemental </a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:12:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:2084:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17079"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17080" title="Pro Theme Design testing themes (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/prothemedesignthemetesting-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="272" /></a></p><p>This piece of news falls under the &#8220;cool news we didn&#8217;t quite get to right when it happened&#8221; category. Ben Gillbanks of Pro Theme Design (which <a title="Theme Madness Round 1 winners" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-2-and-3-winners">survived Round 1</a> of Theme Madness and will play again <a title="Pro Theme Design in Theme Madness" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">next week</a>) launched a new <a title="Pro Theme Design testing ground" href="http://prothemedesign.com/preview/">testing ground</a> for their paid WordPress themes.</p><p>Instead of a demo filled with example content, potential customers can now create a site using WordPress Multisite and apply a theme they would like to test out. Then, the theme can be used in just about every which way (aside from modifying its files, of course) to give the user a solid idea of what to expect when they purchase and install it.</p><p>What about all of the extra demonstration sites cluttering up Pro Theme Design&#8217;s world wide home? They thought of that: all created sites are cleared out every 36 hours. What do you think of this method, and have you seen any other theme developers or services using it?</p><p>While you&#8217;re digging into noteworthy Pro Theme Design activity, have a look at their blog for <em>Elemental</em> theme users and developers called <a title="Elemental Hub for users of Elemental" href="http://elementalhub.com/">Elemental Hub</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17079">Pro Theme Design launches true testing bed for themes, new blog devoted to Elemental </a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:51:"WPCandy: The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/I9Ugf-7rTxg/wordcamp-seattle-2011";s:11:"description";s:144215:"<a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17062" title="WPCandy WordCamp Seattle Liveblog (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampseattleliveblog-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="224" /></a>WPCandy will be at WordCamp Seattle this weekend (see <a title="WPCandy covers WordCamp Seattle" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-seattle">all of our coverage</a>), and of course it wouldn’t be a proper WordCamp without a WPCandy liveblog. This is the post to bookmark and watch: we’ll be updating this liveblog from now until we head back on Sunday. The real interesting stuff will come during the speaker’s sessions tomorrow, of course, which is when we’ll really be updating this liveblog the most.Liveblog starts just after the jump! (Just a heads up: due to changing the time zone to be correct right after the first session, the order of entries is off for a couple of hours. <em>Just to keep things interesting.</em>)<span id="more-17060"></span><hr /> <div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-17060"><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17410"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:49 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Oh, and <a title="WPCandy thanks The Theme Foundry" href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/the-theme-foundry">thanks again to The Theme Foundry</a> for powering us here. Thank them if you know them, and get to know them if you don&#8217;t!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17409"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:47 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>That wraps up the Ignite sessions. Bit of a closing statement, then we&#8217;re done. Liveblog likely going quiet now, we&#8217;ll wrap up the event with other notes and links later.</p><p>Thanks for joining us today folks!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17407"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:46 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/andrewspittle/status/59401689152765952"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17408" title="Andrew Spittle's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-4.45.28-PM.png" alt="" width="523" height="189" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17406"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:44 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I learned more in 3 months than I had learned in 3 years.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17405"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:44 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>A lot of people raised their hands saying they make their living using WordPress, in some form. I raised mine.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17404"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:43 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Indirect ways of getting involved:</p><ul><li><span>Attend a meetup or a WordCamp. Maybe even speak or give a demo, or sponsor them.</span></li><li><span>Donate to the <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/">WordPress Foundation</a>.</span></li><li><span>Release a theme, or join the theme review process.</span></li><li><span>Contribute a plugin.</span></li></ul><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17403"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:42 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Design and UI can use help. Testing WordPress, trying to break the code, is a welcome way to contribute to WordPress. Helping fix it would be nice also.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17402"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:41 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin recommends taking time to answer questions on the support forums. Also contributing to the Codex or to the general knowledge-base using a blog post. Oh, and translations.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17401"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin&#8217;s talk is titled &#8220;Ask Not What WordPress Can Do For You&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17400"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:39 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin&#8217;s up for the last of the Ignite sessions. Almost done for the day!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17399"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:38 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Giving a basic overview of how to get started with BackPress. This part will be most useful with the slides on hand.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17398"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:36 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Ah, I&#8217;ll eat my words. BackPress, he says, is more of a library than a framework. I like his description better.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17397"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>BackPress is useful to use if you&#8217;re very familiar with WordPress and want to use it as a backbone only.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17396"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nathaniel is up now, going to talk about rapid prototyping using BackPress. I&#8217;ll be honest, I don&#8217;t have a ton of experience using BackPress. It&#8217;s best explained as much of the functionality that WordPress offers, without all of the frontend and admin stuff. So it&#8217;s just for development purposes, as a framework.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17395"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:33 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>At the beginning he joked that he only volunteered to present here to get a backlink on the WordCamp Seattle blog. He does have a very big nametag though.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17394"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:31 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I need a much bigger nametag than I currently have.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17393"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:30 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Howard is up now, talking about online business. Coming across as <em>very</em> traditional business meets the internet. You know, in that awkward sense?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17392"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:27 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He&#8217;s now explaining how to use Edit Flow, the various features that it brings to the table. Have a <em>looksee</em> at the plugin <a title="Edit Flow on the WordPress plugin directory" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/edit-flow/">on the WordPress.org directory</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17391"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:24 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>The idea of Edit Flow is that you can manage a multi-author blogging workflow without the need for email, spreadsheets, and tons of other tools to organizer the creation of content.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17390"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:23 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Now comes (missed the speaker&#8217;s name) talking about the Edit Flow WordPress plugin. Hey, we&#8217;ve used that in the past.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17388"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:22 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17389" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17388/attachment/2011-04-16-16-18-13"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17389" title="Bret at WordCamp Seattle 2011 Ignite talks" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-16.18.13-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><p>Bret&#8217;s done, and also mentioned he is looking for work in Los Angeles.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17387"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:20 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Explaining how to read the Facebook Insights statistical information, including demographics.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17386"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:18 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He uses Headway, which is another <a title="WordPress theme framework comparison" href="http://wpcandy.com/presents/wordpress-theme-framework-comparison">WordPress theme framework</a> mentioned today.</p><p>Facebook Insights will give you information about your visitors, where they are. Now walking through configuring the Facebook Like plugin, I believe.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17385"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac&#8217;s done. Next up is Bret Bernhoft, on Facebook Domain Insights and the like button.</p><p>&#8220;A little nervous.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17383"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:15 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17384" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-204/attachment/2011-04-16-16-13-29"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17384" title="Isaac at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-16.13.29-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17382"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:14 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac says, regarding mobile apps, we should release 1.0 right away, fail, and iterate. I&#8217;d say this would work in other places as well.</p><p>&#8220;WordPress powers roughly 10% of the web. WordPress&#8217; mobile apps are now installed on two million or so blogs.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17381"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac&#8217;s from Sweden, and &#8220;traveled pretty far&#8221; to get here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17380"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:11 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac Keyet is getting his Ignite talk going, talking about WordPress mobile projects.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17378"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:06 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Lightning talk sessions are next, getting prepped now. Short talks, automatically advancing slides, should be some fun.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17377"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:49 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question: &#8220;Do you plan on writing a blog post explaining how to do [x]?&#8221;</p><p>Answer, almost always: &#8220;I&#8217;ll add it to the list.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17376"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:46 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Alex is talking about mobile theme development, in conjunction with traditional web development. He thinks a standard framework and a mobile framework, working in conjunction, will be the trend.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17375"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>From the <em>questions I would never ask but think</em> category: &#8220;Why is the only picture of you online have you in a <a title="Alex King in a turtleneck" href="http://alexking.org/about">turtleneck</a>?&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17374"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:37 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s room for anyone to jump in and contribute. Andy Nacin jumped up to the top of the ranks in very little time. Anyone can do it, I would encourage anyone to jump in and just do it.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17373"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:36 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m very in touch with the mainstream WordPress community. But our clients tend to be pushing us to work with WordPress as a CMS more than anything else.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17372"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:31 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking pros and cons of support business models. It would be a good discussion to bring up on the blog: Would you pay for support? And maybe beyond that question, moreso what&#8217;s the proper way to structure a support-focused business model.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17371"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:24 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Conversation is moving to WPHelpCenter, which <a title="WPCandy on WPHelpCenter" href="http://wpcandy.com/?s=wphelpcenter">we&#8217;ve covered over time</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17370"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:22 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Now talking open source motivations, and why Alex contributes to open source himself. He&#8217;s discussing his <a title="Alex King's blog post" href="http://alexking.org/blog/2010/12/01/open-source-motivations">earlier blog post</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17369"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:19 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Now talking <a title="Carrington WordPress theme" href="http://carringtontheme.com/">Carrington</a>, their <a title="Comparison of WordPress theme frameworks" href="http://wpcandy.com/presents/wordpress-theme-framework-comparison">WordPress theme framework</a>, or engine. Alex is describing the various reasons for using a framework, versus developing from scratch or in some other way.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17368"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think that building the business on top of WordPress was evolutionary, not really a choice that we made purposely.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17367"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:15 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Regarding Crowd Favorite, Alex says that in 2007 he hired his first employee. He now has 13 employees, 90% WordPress development. Their typical projects are large scale websites for big clients, plenty of integrations with other systems.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17366"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:13 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>On starting a WordPress business: &#8220;It just kind of ended up happening.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17365"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I enjoyed creating specific add-ons for specific uses, so I moved away from core contribution as much.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17363"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:11 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17364" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17363/attachment/photo"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17364" title="Alex King being interviewed at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/photo-e1302991879223-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Alex King describing his background, before WordPress, and how he ended up in WordPress development.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17361"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:07 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Getting stuff set up for the Alex King interview. A few mic feedback issues, but it&#8217;s coming together.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17359"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:52 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin&#8217;s advice: If you are looking to show up in local search results, don&#8217;t forget to keep a real address, map, etc. in your footer, or at the least on your contact and about pages.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17360"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:52 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>More applause, all done here. Next is the interview with Alex King.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17358"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:51 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommended <a title="Theme-Check WordPress plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/">Theme-Check</a> plugin for improving/checking your WordPress themes.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17357"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:45 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin recommends dashes in urls to make sure you don&#8217;t confuse Google. He gives the ever-funny &#8220;expertsexchange&#8221; example.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17356"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Applause, now time for questions.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17353"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:39 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin&#8217;s talking about the importance of outreach, relationships, and social media. For SEO. Yep, your friends are your best links.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17354"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:38 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;When you come across a plugin that looks clean, it just <em>feels</em> like better code.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17348"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:38 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris highly recommended Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kristina Holden, and Jill Butler. You can order it anywhere.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17352"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:36 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Documentation is nice, but consult the code.&#8221; The Codex is great, but just go straight to the code and learn from there.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17328"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin is talking about how well the Mormon Church implemented their SEO strategy. <a href="http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/breaking-down-the-mormon-seo-strategy/">Here is his post</a> about it on Distilled.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17351"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>On nonces: you need to worry about <em>authentication</em> and <em>intention</em> at the same time.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17350"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:34 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;People send me plugins for review. And I say, it&#8217;s not secure. They say yeah, but we&#8217;re working on features. I say okay, I can add features to your server, what would you like?&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17349"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:31 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Friends don&#8217;t let friends use direct database queries.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17347"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:30 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t make any assumptions. Ever. You can&#8217;t.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17345"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:27 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris is talking about support for a theme right now. A lot of informative slides. Check for every speakers slides later in a different post from Ryan.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17344"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:27 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17346" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-190/attachment/img_0543"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17346" title="Andrew Nacin presenting at WordCamp Seattle" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0543-e1302989199896-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17342"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:25 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.meecss.com/">&#8220;MeeCSS.com</a> lists a ton of gallery websites&#8230;. a really handy tool to submit your theme.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17343"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:23 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>One of Nacin&#8217;s favorite functions is <code>wp_handle_sideload()</code>, which loads files from one server to another.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17341"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:22 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;You really need to figure out&#8230; all the different APIs that WordPress has.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17339"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:21 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris is talking about the life cycle of a theme. Pretty cool seeing it&#8217;s growth from the first stage and how it grows.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17340"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:21 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t guess where things are. You can move your <code>wp-config.php</code>, your <code>wp-content</code>, you can do a lot of crazy stuff.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17338"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:19 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Suggests <code>home_url();</code> and <code>site_url();</code> over the <code>get_option</code> or <code>get_bloginfo</code> varieties.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17335"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:19 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;OptionTree is a plugin by ThemeForest you can create options and put them into your theme. I absolutely love this as a developer.&#8221;-Chris Molitor</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17337"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:18 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise, but: mine Nacin&#8217;s presentation slides, when they go up, for all sorts of useful coding tips.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17336"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:18 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends against using <code>create_function()</code> since it&#8217;s difficult to cache, among other things.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17333"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think we will see more specialization and niche themes as time goes on.&#8221; &#8211; Chris Molitor</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17329"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 2:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17332" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17329/attachment/2011-04-16-14-13-01"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17332" title="Chris Molitor at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-14.13.01-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><p>Chris Molitor speaking.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17304"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p> Theme anatomy</p><p>-Unique design</p><p>-Backend control:<br /> -Slider<br /> -Colors<br /> -Home Layout<br /> -Porfolio Layout</p><p>-Utilize Latest WordPress Features</p><p>Chris Molitor</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17327"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 2:11 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris is going over attributes he has noticed in popular themes.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17326"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:09 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Sounds like he&#8217;s going to be giving examples of doing it wrong. First on the docket is prefixing functions. Best practice is to use <code>yourname_project_function_name()</code>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17317"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:09 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin is a big fan of anchor text. Links are great, but links that anchor the text you want to list for on search engines are gold.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17322"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:07 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I heard Nacin is the Chuck Norris of WordPress. He roundhouse kicks in totally valid PHP.&#8221; &#8211; Brian Krogsgard</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17315"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 2:05 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;The reason I initially started selling themes was to create leads for clients. I hadn&#8217;t even considered selling themes as its own business.&#8221; <a href="http://mobile.twitter.com/TheMolitor">Chris Molitor</a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17321"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:03 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>His talk is also known by the less funny title: &#8220;Best Practices for Plugin Development&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17316"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:03 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin&#8217;s getting prepped up front for his talk in the development room.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17313"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:54 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob&#8217;s all wrapped up. Next we&#8217;ve got <a href="http://justinbriggs.org/">Justin Briggs</a> on WordPress SEO. I wonder how it&#8217;ll compare to <a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/wordpress-seo-strategy">our thoughts</a> on the matter?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17307"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:51 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>That one wrapped up, next is Andrew Nacin&#8217;s &#8220;Y U NO CODE WELL&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17311"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:50 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Michael just wrapped up his very entertaining presentation.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17310"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:45 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob: &#8220;For a user, nobody in their right mind can keep a blog updated every day.&#8221;</p><p>MU HU HA HA.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17309"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:42 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Are there any themes that meet all your standards?</p><p>&#8220;Everything in the .org theme directory goes through testing to ensure they meet up with the expected standards.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17285"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob isn&#8217;t a big fan of moderated comments. &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to moderate, make sure that you&#8217;re there moderating all the time.&#8221; He says people feel disappointed when their hard thought-out first comment gets moderated.</p><p>Good thing <em>we are always here</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17300"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will you do it again?</p><p>&#8220;I will definitely do it again&#8230; I&#8217;m already doing it again.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17306"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:39 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He says they are planning to release their CMS Adapter code to the community as open source.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17303"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:37 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17305" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17303/attachment/2011-04-16-13-20-01"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17305" title="Fields in the theme room at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-13.20.01-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17301"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:33 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>A handy WordPress plugin I didn&#8217;t know about: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-tree-page-view/">CMS Tree Page View</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17297"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:32 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17298" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-178/attachment/img_0541"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17298" title="View of developer room at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0541-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Currently, in the developer room.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17293"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:32 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Child themes are great for testing alternative designs without the fear of breaking something.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17294"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:26 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Going over performance improvement. How to reduce page includes and implement caching, etc.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17295"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:24 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Short codes are better in a plug-in.&#8221; -Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17292"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:20 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I flushed the system and had a 404 error&#8230; Now, I&#8217;m not SEO expert, but, if you ask them, this is probably bad.&#8221;- Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17289"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He&#8217;s now walking through using a CMS adapter to decouple the content from the display. I&#8217;ll be honest, this is something I&#8217;ve never looked into/considered before.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17287"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:15 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I dont work on a WordPress development team. I kinda of fly solo, so I yearn for that. Someone telling me I&#8217;m doing everything wrong, then I tell them they&#8217;re doing things wrong and we come together and create something cool.&#8221;- Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17286"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Everybody uses WordPress differently. Similar, but different.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17283"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17288" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-176/attachment/img_0540"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17288" title="Ariz talking about CMS platforms at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0540-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Looking at various CMS platform options.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17163"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:10 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;90% of all projects I have ever done don&#8217;t use comments. Which, I believe is an integral part of any site.&#8221; -Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17282"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:10 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://mobile.twitter.com/_mfields">Michael Fields</a> is discussing why he chose to make a free theme.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17284"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:09 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob Dunn, or <a href="http://twitter.com/bobwp">@bobwp</a>, is talking how to make your website more user friendly in the user / blogger track.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17280"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:08 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Just a heads up: MVC means <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller">Model-View-Controller</a>, and is a development architecture.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17275"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:06 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/speaker/ariz-jacinto/">Ariz Jacinto</a> is the next speaker in the dev track, talking MVC frameworks.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17190"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:57 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Wrapped up, applause for Scott.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17189"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:56 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question now about the security breach, or &#8220;the incident&#8221;. They&#8217;ve had an overhaul security since then, audited everything. Not too much they can say about it, of course, due to security.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17187"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:55 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Before we build a new feature, we think about how we can track the benefits. Then we can measure whether it was a good use of time.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17183"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:55 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>When they talk about new features for WordPress.com, they pay a lot of attention to stats. They want to understand how new features are being used. &#8220;How often is something clicked?&#8221; &#8220;Once it&#8217;s clicked, will they come back to use it again?&#8221; etc. etc. They want to know the tradeoff between the developers time and the benefit of the feature to users.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17186"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:54 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;If you had a like button now, I know that you wouldn&#8217;t click on it.&#8221;</p><p><em>Self deprecating win.</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17185"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:52 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question is about how Automattic brought in its first VIP clients. Scott recommends asking Matt about it, but it sounds like was personal connections, people Matt knew and reached out to.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17184"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Will Twitter destory blogging?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;A lot of tweets are links to blog posts.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17182"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:50 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking various competitors to WordPress now. There&#8217;s actually a decent discussion over <a title="Is Tumblr the new WordPress? And great discussion on WordPress competitors" href="http://wpcandy.com/thinks/is-tumblr-the-new-wordpress">on this editorial post</a> about the same topic.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17181"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>The next few versions of Jetpack will be all about new features. Scott gave email subscriptions as an example of one feature on the way.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17273"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Lunch time.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17180"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:47 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;If WordPress didn&#8217;t exist you would all be very sad. Where would you guys be today? You&#8217;d be at BlankCamp.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17269"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:47 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Hockley recommends <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/09/18/jason-glaspey-running-a-membershipsubscription-site-with-wordpress/">this talk by Jason Glaspey</a> on WordPress.tv as a great resource on how to run a membership site.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17272"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Applause for Manian as questions finish up, great talk.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17179"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Our systems guy, <a title="Barry of Automattic" href="http://automattic.com/about/">Barry</a>, is amazing. He&#8217;s like&#8230; the future of our species.&#8221;</p><p>New standard for compliments has been set.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17271"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:45 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Forgot to mention, saw Jason Schuller and the Organic Themes guys sneaking in a few minutes ago.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17177"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:44 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/drawmark/status/59295378595520512"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17178" title="Mark Kaufman's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.44.16-AM.png" alt="" width="531" height="216" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17176"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Are you a developer? You&#8217;re a designer? Oh, I don&#8217;t want to talk to you then.&#8221; <em>laughs</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17268"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/keepkalm/status/59325753413742592"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17270" title="Funny food tweet at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.42.53-AM.png" alt="" width="518" height="186" /></a></p><p>Yes, food soon.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17175"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question from the crowd: &#8220;You want an intern?&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17260"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:42 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Hockley is talking about ebooks now in the user/blogger track. He says you can actually take existing content, and massage it a bit, then sell that content as an ebook. He recommends e-junkie to sell them.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17173"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>There are approximately 50 or 60 P2 blogs within Automattic. Not all are very active, some are dormant.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17169"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Be aggressive about trying out plugins, and conservative about what you keep and maintain&#8221; &#8211; Scott on a question asking how many plugins are too many.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17171"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:40 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/trepmal/status/59294748233564161"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17172" title="Kailey's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.39.52-AM.png" alt="" width="469" height="188" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17267"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good reminder for using media queries to determine platforms, screen sizers, etc. rather than browser detection. Hat tip to <a title="Modernizr Javascript" href="http://www.modernizr.com/">Modernizr</a> as well.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17170"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:37 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking downsides of their system now. Seems to be: not everyone works best that way, certain social/emotional cues are hard to catch via text, etc.</p><p>&#8220;We tend to be almost too polite.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17168"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:35 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends <a title="CodePoet.com" href="http://codepoet.com/">CodePoet.com</a> as a place to find reliable WordPress professionals.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17264"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/terryloving/status/59322512756051968"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17265" title="Terry Loving's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.33.09-AM.png" alt="" width="519" height="248" /></a></p><p>Turns out <a title="WordCandy on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/WordCandy">@WordCandy</a> is a poetry Twitter stream. New direction for our site!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17263"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>You can check out CheeseCAP now at http://chzb.gr/CheezCAP.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17166"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We depend a lot on the WordPress community to police itself.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17262"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>A number of resource and helpful links at the end of the presentation, which will be available when she posts the slides on her blog later today. We&#8217;ll get a post up with all speaker&#8217;s presentations, of course.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17259"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not on the .org plugin directory yet, but it will be soon.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17164"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/nacin/status/59292603849523200"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17165" title="Andrew Nacin's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.31.21-AM.png" alt="" width="511" height="221" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17162"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Response to question: WordPress.com Publicize (social feature) can be added to Jetpack, but it isn&#8217;t being done yet. &#8220;Request noted.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17261"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommending minifying scripts, and using your own Javascript rather than a Javascript plugin option. All good reminders in this talk, smart plugin dev 101.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17137"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;There should be as little user-interface as possible. Imagine going to the bathroom and turning on the light. Only instead of flipping a switch, you have to go to the fuse box and start flipping switches then mess with the lighting, fading in and out. That would be annoying.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17258"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Kind of peeking into the blogger room&#8217;s &#8220;An Introduction to Making Money With a Blog&#8221; talk, just via Twitter mentions. I wonder what they would think of our <a href="http://wpcandy.com/is/powered">powered by</a> system?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17161"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s cool to see Scott in person talking. We&#8217;re always <a title="Scott Berkun on WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/profiles/scott-berkun">mentioning him</a> on the blog.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17257"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:28 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Hockley recommends <a href="http://www.oiopublisher.com/">OIO Publisher</a> for a direct ad sales manager plugin.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17256"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:28 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Can cheezCAP be automated?</p><p>&#8220;Sure, submit a patch! That would be great!&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17159"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:28 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://twitpic.com/4lmci5"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17160" title="WordCamp Seattle opening presentation crowd" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/278179277.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="358" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17255"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:27 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Focus on clean markup. Don&#8217;t add <code>div</code>s just because it&#8217;s easy to do. Also encouraging using templates to separate presentation from the logic, enabling users or other developers to make non-destructive changes.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17156"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17158" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-132/attachment/2011-04-16-09-24-13"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17158" title="Jetpack planning stages" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-09.24.13-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17157" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-132/attachment/img_0534"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17157" title="Planning screens for Jetpack" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0534-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17239"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Aaron Hockley is talking about how to make money with a blog. He&#8217;s discussing adsense, direct ad sales, affiliate programs, membership programs, and more.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17249"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Trading Cheezburger books for questions. Wish I wasn&#8217;t so shy&#8230;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17254"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:25 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Determine which browsers are important and focus on supporting them. Don&#8217;t feel like you need to support fringe browsers. Don&#8217;t use inline CSS, and don&#8217;t step on other&#8217;s potential classes/declarations.</p><p>Recommending <a href="http://sass-lang.com/">SASS</a>, as a sort of CSS programming option.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17154"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17155" title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 Wi-fi connection" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.23.18-AM-300x188.png" alt="" width="300" height="188" /></p><p>Pretty impressive Wi-fi connection here. No complaints.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17252"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://trendsmap.com/local/us/seattle"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17253" title="WordCamp Seattle trending on Twitter, in Seattle" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.22.59-AM.png" alt="" width="557" height="466" /></a></p><p>Kind of cool, #wcsea is now trending in Seattle.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17153"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:22 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;You can see in this picture, that because we&#8217;re used to working distributed, so when we&#8217;re together it&#8217;s pretty awkward. We stare off into space, we don&#8217;t talk&#8230;&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17251"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Enforcing proper plugin development philosophy now. Try to be less, not more. Stay as basic as possible. Don&#8217;t impose your own preferences, styles, etc. on the user&#8217;s theme. Also hearing a lot of &#8220;make choices, not options&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17152"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s talking about <a title="Jetpack" href="http://jetpack.me/">Jetpack</a>, <a title="Jetpack discussed on WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/?s=jetpack">heard of it</a>?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17248"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:20 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/jtmpnw/status/59319689356120064"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17250" title="Platform built on WordPress, via stream at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.18.49-AM.png" alt="" width="533" height="244" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17151"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:19 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Apparently I&#8217;m not supposed to worship the sun yet.&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;ll just let you refer to the recordings to make sense of that one.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17241"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:18 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;cheezCAP is a free, open source theme controller.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17247"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:17 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Laying down the argument for website speed. Consider user internet connections, not everyone has broadband.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17150"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:17 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good analogies:</p><ul><li><span>IRC is like the hallway. There&#8217;s always a group of people in chat rooms.</span></li><li><span>Skype is for small team meetings.</span></li><li><span>P2 is a combination of status updates from Twitter with the retention ability of blogs. (Not really an analogy I guess.)</span></li></ul><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17149"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:16 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Automattic communicates entirely via IRC, Skype, and <a title="P2 WordPress theme" href="http://p2theme.com/">P2</a>. Talking about how Automattic doesn&#8217;t use email to communicate like most do.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17245"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:15 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17246" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17245/attachment/2011-04-16-11-12-16"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17246" title="Toby McKes in the theme track at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-11.12.16-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17148"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We recently released the 25,000th version of WordPress.com&#8230; We believe the only way we learn is deploying.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17244"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Most options are not optimized for highly trafficked websites. Most focus on features.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17243"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking page load times with different numbers of plugins installed. Spoiler alert: more plugins <em>could</em> slow your site down.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17146"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17147" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-128/attachment/img_0533"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17147" title="List of Automattic principles" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0533-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17145"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:11 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t believe job titles are very important. We don&#8217;t believe where you work is important. We don&#8217;t even believe how long you work. We think it&#8217;s important what you get done.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17144"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a title="Automattic map of employees" href="http://automattic.com/map/">Automattic map of 70 or so odd employees</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17242"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Manian&#8217;s not a fan of W3Schools, suggest W3Fools.com. Used to work with Drupal primarily.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m from the enemy camp.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17143"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Regarding the distribution of Automattic employees: &#8220;We are everywhere. Like ninjas. We&#8217;re places you don&#8217;t expect us to be.&#8221;</p><p>Sounds like a threat, no?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17238"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:09 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17240" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-165/attachment/img_0538"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17240" title="View from the development track at WordCamp Seattle" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0538-e1302977378265-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Changed my seat, new view.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17235"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:09 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I started with 17 WordPress blogs on my first day.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17142"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:09 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s background is as a writer, back before he moved to WordPress. He&#8217;s talking about how writing is important to the world, important to keep sacred.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17140"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:08 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/certifiedkory/status/59286007492771840"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17141" title="Kory McDow's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.07.53-AM.png" alt="" width="533" height="182" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17236"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:08 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-17237" title="WCsea" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/WCsea-600x217.jpg" alt="WordCamp Seattle" width="600" height="217" /><br /> The remote view of WordCamp Seattle.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17139"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:07 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Happiness Engineering team is what Automattic/WordPress.com calls their support team. And every employee who is hired has to spend three weeks in support first, before doing anything else. Clever idea.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17234"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:06 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Better plugin development talk starting now.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17138"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:06 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Turns out not a lot of folks here get many comments/day. New project: WPCandy will comment on all blogs. <em>Everywhere</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17135"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:05 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17136" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-121/attachment/img_0532"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17136" title="WordPress.com stats slide" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0532-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Nearly 20,000,000 blogs on WordPress.com. Referencing <a title="WordPress.com Stats" href="http://en.wordpress.com/stats">this page</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17117"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 11:05 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Currently there are almost twenty million blogs across WordPress.com&#8221;- Scott Berkun</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17134"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:04 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m just kidding.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17133"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:03 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott Berkun just started breakdancing up there. Really odd.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17233"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:02 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Looks like it will be standing room only for &#8220;Cool as a LOLCat&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17132"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:02 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>WordPress.com makes money three primary ways:</p><ol><li><span>Ads</span></li><li><span>Upgrades</span></li><li><span>VIP</span></li></ol><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17131"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:01 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>If you&#8217;re watching from home, remember the hashtag to follow is <a title="WordCamp Seattle hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wcsea">#wcsea</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17130"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:59 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Explaining the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. I&#8217;m glad, because I&#8217;ve been wondering about that one <em>for a while</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17129"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:58 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s getting going now. Going to be some time for FAQ at the end. Any questions you would like asked? Leave them in the comments or hit us up <a title="WPCandy on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/wpcandy">on Twitter</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17128"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:56 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking about the <a title="Seattle WordPress Meetup" href="http://www.meetup.com/SeattleWordPressMeetup/">Seattle WordPress Meetup</a>. It&#8217;s held at TechStars, if you&#8217;re local to Seattle. <em>Or</em>, if you love traveling hundreds of miles for local events.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17223"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:55 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Very good Q and A session with Justin Sainton, not Satin.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17127"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:54 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;The bathrooms are kind of&#8230; meager offerings.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17125"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:53 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/arianna/status/59280357140344832"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17126" title="Arianna O'Dell's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-8.52.27-AM.png" alt="" width="529" height="180" /></a></p><p>Aw, sad day.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17124"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re using these cameras to record and live stream. So, please try not to stand in front of them.&#8221;</p><p>Thanking sponsors now. Microsoft up first.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17122"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17123" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-112/attachment/img_0530"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17123" title="How is WordPress.com made?" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0530-e1302969059163-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17229"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:49 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Next presentation by <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/speaker/divya-manian/">Divya Manian</a> on building better plugins. Back after the break.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17116"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Opening remarks happening now.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17228"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Slides and code will be posted on his site soon.</p><p>Thanks and applause for Will, great session!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17226"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:45 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Please work. Ah, great!&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17222"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin is describing their pricing structure as a way to figure out the market and what is out there.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17115"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>First up today is an all-track presentation by <a title="Scott Berkun's profile on WordCamp Seattle blog" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/speaker/scott-berkun/">Scott Berkun</a>, Team Social lead at WordPress.com for Automattic. The presentation title is, appropriately, &#8220;How is WordPress.com Made?&#8221; Still a few minutes before things really get going here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17219"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>What is your percentage of overseas interest?</p><p>&#8220;About 1/3 so far.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17220"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Test</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17113"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:37 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17114" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17113/attachment/img_0529"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17114" title="View from our table at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0529-e1302968069839-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Our view from our table. Place is filling up! I guess that&#8217;s what <a title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 sells out" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/350-attendees-at-wordcamp-seattle-2011">350 attendees</a> will do, eh?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17213"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:36 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Aren&#8217;t you looking in the rear view mirror with this?</p><p>&#8220;Well, yes. But we believe WordPress is a better platform for it.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17216"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17217" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-159/attachment/2011-04-16-10-31-07"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17217" title="Justin Sainton presenting at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.31.07-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17215"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will&#8217;s now showing of his method for simplifying Ajax handlers. Refer to his slides for his class.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17111"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17112" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17111/attachment/img_0527"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17112" title="WPCandy shirts at the front table at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0527-e1302967911857-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Arrived and set up space for handing out WPCandy shirts at the front registration tables. Be sure to pick one up!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17214"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:31 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>We&#8217;ll likely have the blogging track covered here as well by the next hour. Rest of the team is running a quick errand.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17212"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>When Justin Vela talks about Justin Sainton in the other room, I like to pretend he&#8217;s speaking in the third person, like royalty.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17208"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Go to groupdealsplugin.com to check out what Justin is working on.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17109"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/toddflorence/status/59273996188913664"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17110" title="Todd Florence's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-8.27.48-AM.png" alt="" width="540" height="264" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17211"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Not to go too inside baseball, but live blogging sessions with lots of code examples (which is a good thing) is tough. Great presentation, hard to quantify it here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17209"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17210" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17209/attachment/img_0537"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17210" title="Audience in the dev track room for Will Anderson's talk" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0537-e1302974638280-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>The current audience in the development track room.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17206"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:22 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>His slides include code examples, showing how to load up Javascript on only certain pages, or admin, or custom post type, etc.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17200"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Custom post types are the coolest thing since&#8230;&#8230; well I guess pages.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17188"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 10:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good advice from Will: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to run a custom script on every page.&#8221; You can pull it in where needed to save load times.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17204"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:20 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17205" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17204/attachment/img_0536"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17205" title="Will Anderson at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0536-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Talking <code>wp_enqueue_script()</code>, and generally how to start using Ajax in WordPress.</p><p>Did I mention I like that I was able to stay in the same place? Yup, no need to move yet.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17203"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:16 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends using &#8220;jQuery&#8221; instead of the dollar symbol, for compatibility&#8217;s sake.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17202"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Quick overview of what Ajax is. He&#8217;ll be using jQuery for examples.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17201"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will Anderson getting rolling, talking Ajax and WordPress.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17199"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m in the development track, Justin will be in the theme track. Plus, Krogsgard is at it from home. Liveblog to the max. And I&#8217;m uncool again.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17198"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Sainton not Satin!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17195"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:12 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17196" title="View from the theme track" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.05.10-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17197" title="View from the theme track" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.05.56-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p><p>I&#8217;ll be in the theme track right now. My current view.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17121"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:11 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Things are getting started in the Theming Track.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17194"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:07 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Apparently I&#8217;m really good with time.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17107"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a title="WPCandy thanks The Theme Foundry" href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/the-theme-foundry">Big thanks to The Theme Foundry</a> for <a title="You can power WPCandy too" href="http://wpcandy.com/is/powered">powering WPCandy</a> to attend WordCamp Seattle this weekend. We literally wouldn&#8217;t be here without them, so check them out and thank them!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17105"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>If you&#8217;re watching the events today from home, don&#8217;t miss out on the <a title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 live streams" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordcamp-seattle-2011-will-be-live-streamed-today-starting-9am">live streams that the WordCamp Seattle folks are offering up</a>. Just be sure to keep our liveblog up in another tab!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17192"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:01 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Changed timezone of the blog. Always forget stuff like that.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17096"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 8:57 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17097" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17096/attachment/img_0018"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17097" title="New mobile office, in Seattle Washington" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0018-e1302961887148-600x800.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="480" /></a></p><p>I&#8217;d like to think I&#8217;ve upgraded a bit since the <a href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-phoenix-2011#liveblog-entry-13645">last time I shared my mobile office</a>. Hopefully it makes my blogging/developing that much better. Because that&#8217;s how it works.</p><p><em>Right?</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17095"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 8:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Up and at &#8216;em. Will be leaving for WordCamp in an hour or so, after which the real liveblogging will get going. T minus 2 hours.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17089"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 6:30 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17090" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17089/attachment/p4cbq"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17090" title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 venue ready" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/p4cbq-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Sounds like the volunteers and organizers of WordCamp Seattle have wrangled everything together and finished prepping the venue. (<a title="WordCamp Seattle tweet" href="https://twitter.com/wordcampseattle/status/59034918667288577">via</a>)</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17087"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 6:19 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ve been asked to mention WP101&#8242;s deal for WordCamp attendees. If you&#8217;re interested in WordPress support videos, and/or getting a good deal, <a title="WP101 for WordCamp attendees" href="http://www.wp101.com/wordcamp">check them out</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17077"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 5:46 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p><strong>Story time. </strong></p><p>The WPCandy crew missed their flight last night by a couple of minutes. So instead we spent the night in Indianapolis, grabbing a flight this morning to Milwaukee, where we have spent the better part of the day on a long layover waiting for our flight to Seattle.</p><p>We missed out on a day hanging out in Seattle, but at least we won&#8217;t miss the main event.</p><p>Did we mention we&#8217;ll need a drink or two tonight in Seattle? Yeah, that&#8217;s going to happen.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17075"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:27 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p>One more test.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17067"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:16 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p>Just testing out the newly created liveblog. And sitting in Milwaukee being cold.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:16:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:144215:"<a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17062" title="WPCandy WordCamp Seattle Liveblog (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampseattleliveblog-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="224" /></a>WPCandy will be at WordCamp Seattle this weekend (see <a title="WPCandy covers WordCamp Seattle" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-seattle">all of our coverage</a>), and of course it wouldn’t be a proper WordCamp without a WPCandy liveblog. This is the post to bookmark and watch: we’ll be updating this liveblog from now until we head back on Sunday. The real interesting stuff will come during the speaker’s sessions tomorrow, of course, which is when we’ll really be updating this liveblog the most.Liveblog starts just after the jump! (Just a heads up: due to changing the time zone to be correct right after the first session, the order of entries is off for a couple of hours. <em>Just to keep things interesting.</em>)<span id="more-17060"></span><hr /> <div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-17060"><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17410"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:49 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Oh, and <a title="WPCandy thanks The Theme Foundry" href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/the-theme-foundry">thanks again to The Theme Foundry</a> for powering us here. Thank them if you know them, and get to know them if you don&#8217;t!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17409"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:47 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>That wraps up the Ignite sessions. Bit of a closing statement, then we&#8217;re done. Liveblog likely going quiet now, we&#8217;ll wrap up the event with other notes and links later.</p><p>Thanks for joining us today folks!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17407"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:46 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/andrewspittle/status/59401689152765952"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17408" title="Andrew Spittle's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-4.45.28-PM.png" alt="" width="523" height="189" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17406"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:44 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I learned more in 3 months than I had learned in 3 years.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17405"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:44 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>A lot of people raised their hands saying they make their living using WordPress, in some form. I raised mine.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17404"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:43 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Indirect ways of getting involved:</p><ul><li><span>Attend a meetup or a WordCamp. Maybe even speak or give a demo, or sponsor them.</span></li><li><span>Donate to the <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/">WordPress Foundation</a>.</span></li><li><span>Release a theme, or join the theme review process.</span></li><li><span>Contribute a plugin.</span></li></ul><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17403"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:42 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Design and UI can use help. Testing WordPress, trying to break the code, is a welcome way to contribute to WordPress. Helping fix it would be nice also.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17402"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:41 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin recommends taking time to answer questions on the support forums. Also contributing to the Codex or to the general knowledge-base using a blog post. Oh, and translations.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17401"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin&#8217;s talk is titled &#8220;Ask Not What WordPress Can Do For You&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17400"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:39 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin&#8217;s up for the last of the Ignite sessions. Almost done for the day!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17399"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:38 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Giving a basic overview of how to get started with BackPress. This part will be most useful with the slides on hand.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17398"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:36 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Ah, I&#8217;ll eat my words. BackPress, he says, is more of a library than a framework. I like his description better.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17397"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>BackPress is useful to use if you&#8217;re very familiar with WordPress and want to use it as a backbone only.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17396"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nathaniel is up now, going to talk about rapid prototyping using BackPress. I&#8217;ll be honest, I don&#8217;t have a ton of experience using BackPress. It&#8217;s best explained as much of the functionality that WordPress offers, without all of the frontend and admin stuff. So it&#8217;s just for development purposes, as a framework.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17395"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:33 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>At the beginning he joked that he only volunteered to present here to get a backlink on the WordCamp Seattle blog. He does have a very big nametag though.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17394"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:31 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I need a much bigger nametag than I currently have.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17393"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:30 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Howard is up now, talking about online business. Coming across as <em>very</em> traditional business meets the internet. You know, in that awkward sense?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17392"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:27 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He&#8217;s now explaining how to use Edit Flow, the various features that it brings to the table. Have a <em>looksee</em> at the plugin <a title="Edit Flow on the WordPress plugin directory" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/edit-flow/">on the WordPress.org directory</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17391"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:24 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>The idea of Edit Flow is that you can manage a multi-author blogging workflow without the need for email, spreadsheets, and tons of other tools to organizer the creation of content.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17390"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:23 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Now comes (missed the speaker&#8217;s name) talking about the Edit Flow WordPress plugin. Hey, we&#8217;ve used that in the past.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17388"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:22 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17389" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17388/attachment/2011-04-16-16-18-13"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17389" title="Bret at WordCamp Seattle 2011 Ignite talks" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-16.18.13-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><p>Bret&#8217;s done, and also mentioned he is looking for work in Los Angeles.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17387"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:20 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Explaining how to read the Facebook Insights statistical information, including demographics.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17386"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:18 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He uses Headway, which is another <a title="WordPress theme framework comparison" href="http://wpcandy.com/presents/wordpress-theme-framework-comparison">WordPress theme framework</a> mentioned today.</p><p>Facebook Insights will give you information about your visitors, where they are. Now walking through configuring the Facebook Like plugin, I believe.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17385"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac&#8217;s done. Next up is Bret Bernhoft, on Facebook Domain Insights and the like button.</p><p>&#8220;A little nervous.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17383"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:15 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17384" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-204/attachment/2011-04-16-16-13-29"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17384" title="Isaac at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-16.13.29-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17382"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:14 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac says, regarding mobile apps, we should release 1.0 right away, fail, and iterate. I&#8217;d say this would work in other places as well.</p><p>&#8220;WordPress powers roughly 10% of the web. WordPress&#8217; mobile apps are now installed on two million or so blogs.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17381"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac&#8217;s from Sweden, and &#8220;traveled pretty far&#8221; to get here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17380"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:11 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Isaac Keyet is getting his Ignite talk going, talking about WordPress mobile projects.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17378"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:06 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Lightning talk sessions are next, getting prepped now. Short talks, automatically advancing slides, should be some fun.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17377"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:49 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question: &#8220;Do you plan on writing a blog post explaining how to do [x]?&#8221;</p><p>Answer, almost always: &#8220;I&#8217;ll add it to the list.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17376"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:46 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Alex is talking about mobile theme development, in conjunction with traditional web development. He thinks a standard framework and a mobile framework, working in conjunction, will be the trend.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17375"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>From the <em>questions I would never ask but think</em> category: &#8220;Why is the only picture of you online have you in a <a title="Alex King in a turtleneck" href="http://alexking.org/about">turtleneck</a>?&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17374"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:37 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s room for anyone to jump in and contribute. Andy Nacin jumped up to the top of the ranks in very little time. Anyone can do it, I would encourage anyone to jump in and just do it.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17373"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:36 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m very in touch with the mainstream WordPress community. But our clients tend to be pushing us to work with WordPress as a CMS more than anything else.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17372"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:31 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking pros and cons of support business models. It would be a good discussion to bring up on the blog: Would you pay for support? And maybe beyond that question, moreso what&#8217;s the proper way to structure a support-focused business model.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17371"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:24 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Conversation is moving to WPHelpCenter, which <a title="WPCandy on WPHelpCenter" href="http://wpcandy.com/?s=wphelpcenter">we&#8217;ve covered over time</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17370"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:22 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Now talking open source motivations, and why Alex contributes to open source himself. He&#8217;s discussing his <a title="Alex King's blog post" href="http://alexking.org/blog/2010/12/01/open-source-motivations">earlier blog post</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17369"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:19 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Now talking <a title="Carrington WordPress theme" href="http://carringtontheme.com/">Carrington</a>, their <a title="Comparison of WordPress theme frameworks" href="http://wpcandy.com/presents/wordpress-theme-framework-comparison">WordPress theme framework</a>, or engine. Alex is describing the various reasons for using a framework, versus developing from scratch or in some other way.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17368"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think that building the business on top of WordPress was evolutionary, not really a choice that we made purposely.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17367"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:15 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Regarding Crowd Favorite, Alex says that in 2007 he hired his first employee. He now has 13 employees, 90% WordPress development. Their typical projects are large scale websites for big clients, plenty of integrations with other systems.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17366"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:13 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>On starting a WordPress business: &#8220;It just kind of ended up happening.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17365"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I enjoyed creating specific add-ons for specific uses, so I moved away from core contribution as much.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17363"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:11 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17364" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17363/attachment/photo"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17364" title="Alex King being interviewed at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/photo-e1302991879223-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Alex King describing his background, before WordPress, and how he ended up in WordPress development.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17361"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 3:07 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Getting stuff set up for the Alex King interview. A few mic feedback issues, but it&#8217;s coming together.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17359"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:52 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin&#8217;s advice: If you are looking to show up in local search results, don&#8217;t forget to keep a real address, map, etc. in your footer, or at the least on your contact and about pages.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17360"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:52 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>More applause, all done here. Next is the interview with Alex King.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17358"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:51 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommended <a title="Theme-Check WordPress plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/">Theme-Check</a> plugin for improving/checking your WordPress themes.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17357"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:45 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin recommends dashes in urls to make sure you don&#8217;t confuse Google. He gives the ever-funny &#8220;expertsexchange&#8221; example.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17356"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Applause, now time for questions.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17353"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:39 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin&#8217;s talking about the importance of outreach, relationships, and social media. For SEO. Yep, your friends are your best links.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17354"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:38 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;When you come across a plugin that looks clean, it just <em>feels</em> like better code.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17348"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:38 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris highly recommended Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kristina Holden, and Jill Butler. You can order it anywhere.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17352"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:36 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Documentation is nice, but consult the code.&#8221; The Codex is great, but just go straight to the code and learn from there.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17328"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin is talking about how well the Mormon Church implemented their SEO strategy. <a href="http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/breaking-down-the-mormon-seo-strategy/">Here is his post</a> about it on Distilled.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17351"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:35 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>On nonces: you need to worry about <em>authentication</em> and <em>intention</em> at the same time.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17350"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:34 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;People send me plugins for review. And I say, it&#8217;s not secure. They say yeah, but we&#8217;re working on features. I say okay, I can add features to your server, what would you like?&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17349"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:31 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Friends don&#8217;t let friends use direct database queries.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17347"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:30 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t make any assumptions. Ever. You can&#8217;t.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17345"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:27 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris is talking about support for a theme right now. A lot of informative slides. Check for every speakers slides later in a different post from Ryan.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17344"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:27 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17346" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-190/attachment/img_0543"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17346" title="Andrew Nacin presenting at WordCamp Seattle" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0543-e1302989199896-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17342"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:25 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.meecss.com/">&#8220;MeeCSS.com</a> lists a ton of gallery websites&#8230;. a really handy tool to submit your theme.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17343"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:23 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>One of Nacin&#8217;s favorite functions is <code>wp_handle_sideload()</code>, which loads files from one server to another.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17341"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:22 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;You really need to figure out&#8230; all the different APIs that WordPress has.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17339"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:21 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris is talking about the life cycle of a theme. Pretty cool seeing it&#8217;s growth from the first stage and how it grows.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17340"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:21 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t guess where things are. You can move your <code>wp-config.php</code>, your <code>wp-content</code>, you can do a lot of crazy stuff.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17338"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:19 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Suggests <code>home_url();</code> and <code>site_url();</code> over the <code>get_option</code> or <code>get_bloginfo</code> varieties.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17335"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:19 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;OptionTree is a plugin by ThemeForest you can create options and put them into your theme. I absolutely love this as a developer.&#8221;-Chris Molitor</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17337"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:18 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise, but: mine Nacin&#8217;s presentation slides, when they go up, for all sorts of useful coding tips.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17336"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:18 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends against using <code>create_function()</code> since it&#8217;s difficult to cache, among other things.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17333"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think we will see more specialization and niche themes as time goes on.&#8221; &#8211; Chris Molitor</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17329"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 2:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17332" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17329/attachment/2011-04-16-14-13-01"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17332" title="Chris Molitor at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-14.13.01-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><p>Chris Molitor speaking.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17304"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 2:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p> Theme anatomy</p><p>-Unique design</p><p>-Backend control:<br /> -Slider<br /> -Colors<br /> -Home Layout<br /> -Porfolio Layout</p><p>-Utilize Latest WordPress Features</p><p>Chris Molitor</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17327"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 2:11 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Chris is going over attributes he has noticed in popular themes.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17326"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:09 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Sounds like he&#8217;s going to be giving examples of doing it wrong. First on the docket is prefixing functions. Best practice is to use <code>yourname_project_function_name()</code>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17317"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 2:09 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin is a big fan of anchor text. Links are great, but links that anchor the text you want to list for on search engines are gold.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17322"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:07 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I heard Nacin is the Chuck Norris of WordPress. He roundhouse kicks in totally valid PHP.&#8221; &#8211; Brian Krogsgard</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17315"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 2:05 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;The reason I initially started selling themes was to create leads for clients. I hadn&#8217;t even considered selling themes as its own business.&#8221; <a href="http://mobile.twitter.com/TheMolitor">Chris Molitor</a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17321"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:03 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>His talk is also known by the less funny title: &#8220;Best Practices for Plugin Development&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17316"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 2:03 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Nacin&#8217;s getting prepped up front for his talk in the development room.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17313"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:54 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob&#8217;s all wrapped up. Next we&#8217;ve got <a href="http://justinbriggs.org/">Justin Briggs</a> on WordPress SEO. I wonder how it&#8217;ll compare to <a href="http://wpcandy.com/teaches/wordpress-seo-strategy">our thoughts</a> on the matter?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17307"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:51 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>That one wrapped up, next is Andrew Nacin&#8217;s &#8220;Y U NO CODE WELL&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17311"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:50 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Michael just wrapped up his very entertaining presentation.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17310"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:45 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob: &#8220;For a user, nobody in their right mind can keep a blog updated every day.&#8221;</p><p>MU HU HA HA.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17309"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:42 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Are there any themes that meet all your standards?</p><p>&#8220;Everything in the .org theme directory goes through testing to ensure they meet up with the expected standards.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17285"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob isn&#8217;t a big fan of moderated comments. &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to moderate, make sure that you&#8217;re there moderating all the time.&#8221; He says people feel disappointed when their hard thought-out first comment gets moderated.</p><p>Good thing <em>we are always here</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17300"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:40 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will you do it again?</p><p>&#8220;I will definitely do it again&#8230; I&#8217;m already doing it again.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17306"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:39 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He says they are planning to release their CMS Adapter code to the community as open source.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17303"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:37 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17305" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17303/attachment/2011-04-16-13-20-01"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17305" title="Fields in the theme room at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-13.20.01-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17301"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:33 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>A handy WordPress plugin I didn&#8217;t know about: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-tree-page-view/">CMS Tree Page View</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17297"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:32 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17298" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-178/attachment/img_0541"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17298" title="View of developer room at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0541-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Currently, in the developer room.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17293"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:32 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Child themes are great for testing alternative designs without the fear of breaking something.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17294"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:26 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Going over performance improvement. How to reduce page includes and implement caching, etc.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17295"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:24 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Short codes are better in a plug-in.&#8221; -Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17292"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:20 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I flushed the system and had a 404 error&#8230; Now, I&#8217;m not SEO expert, but, if you ask them, this is probably bad.&#8221;- Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17289"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:17 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>He&#8217;s now walking through using a CMS adapter to decouple the content from the display. I&#8217;ll be honest, this is something I&#8217;ve never looked into/considered before.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17287"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:15 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I dont work on a WordPress development team. I kinda of fly solo, so I yearn for that. Someone telling me I&#8217;m doing everything wrong, then I tell them they&#8217;re doing things wrong and we come together and create something cool.&#8221;- Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17286"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Everybody uses WordPress differently. Similar, but different.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17283"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:12 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17288" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-176/attachment/img_0540"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17288" title="Ariz talking about CMS platforms at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0540-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Looking at various CMS platform options.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17163"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 1:10 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;90% of all projects I have ever done don&#8217;t use comments. Which, I believe is an integral part of any site.&#8221; -Michael Fields</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17282"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 1:10 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://mobile.twitter.com/_mfields">Michael Fields</a> is discussing why he chose to make a free theme.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17284"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 1:09 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Bob Dunn, or <a href="http://twitter.com/bobwp">@bobwp</a>, is talking how to make your website more user friendly in the user / blogger track.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17280"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:08 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Just a heads up: MVC means <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller">Model-View-Controller</a>, and is a development architecture.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17275"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 1:06 pm -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/speaker/ariz-jacinto/">Ariz Jacinto</a> is the next speaker in the dev track, talking MVC frameworks.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17190"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:57 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Wrapped up, applause for Scott.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17189"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:56 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question now about the security breach, or &#8220;the incident&#8221;. They&#8217;ve had an overhaul security since then, audited everything. Not too much they can say about it, of course, due to security.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17187"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:55 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Before we build a new feature, we think about how we can track the benefits. Then we can measure whether it was a good use of time.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17183"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:55 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>When they talk about new features for WordPress.com, they pay a lot of attention to stats. They want to understand how new features are being used. &#8220;How often is something clicked?&#8221; &#8220;Once it&#8217;s clicked, will they come back to use it again?&#8221; etc. etc. They want to know the tradeoff between the developers time and the benefit of the feature to users.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17186"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:54 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;If you had a like button now, I know that you wouldn&#8217;t click on it.&#8221;</p><p><em>Self deprecating win.</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17185"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:52 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question is about how Automattic brought in its first VIP clients. Scott recommends asking Matt about it, but it sounds like was personal connections, people Matt knew and reached out to.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17184"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Will Twitter destory blogging?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;A lot of tweets are links to blog posts.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17182"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:50 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking various competitors to WordPress now. There&#8217;s actually a decent discussion over <a title="Is Tumblr the new WordPress? And great discussion on WordPress competitors" href="http://wpcandy.com/thinks/is-tumblr-the-new-wordpress">on this editorial post</a> about the same topic.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17181"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>The next few versions of Jetpack will be all about new features. Scott gave email subscriptions as an example of one feature on the way.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17273"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Lunch time.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17180"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:47 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;If WordPress didn&#8217;t exist you would all be very sad. Where would you guys be today? You&#8217;d be at BlankCamp.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17269"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:47 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Hockley recommends <a href="http://wordpress.tv/2010/09/18/jason-glaspey-running-a-membershipsubscription-site-with-wordpress/">this talk by Jason Glaspey</a> on WordPress.tv as a great resource on how to run a membership site.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17272"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Applause for Manian as questions finish up, great talk.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17179"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Our systems guy, <a title="Barry of Automattic" href="http://automattic.com/about/">Barry</a>, is amazing. He&#8217;s like&#8230; the future of our species.&#8221;</p><p>New standard for compliments has been set.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17271"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:45 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Forgot to mention, saw Jason Schuller and the Organic Themes guys sneaking in a few minutes ago.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17177"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:44 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/drawmark/status/59295378595520512"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17178" title="Mark Kaufman's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.44.16-AM.png" alt="" width="531" height="216" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17176"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Are you a developer? You&#8217;re a designer? Oh, I don&#8217;t want to talk to you then.&#8221; <em>laughs</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17268"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/keepkalm/status/59325753413742592"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17270" title="Funny food tweet at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.42.53-AM.png" alt="" width="518" height="186" /></a></p><p>Yes, food soon.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17175"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:43 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Question from the crowd: &#8220;You want an intern?&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17260"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:42 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Hockley is talking about ebooks now in the user/blogger track. He says you can actually take existing content, and massage it a bit, then sell that content as an ebook. He recommends e-junkie to sell them.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17173"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>There are approximately 50 or 60 P2 blogs within Automattic. Not all are very active, some are dormant.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17169"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Be aggressive about trying out plugins, and conservative about what you keep and maintain&#8221; &#8211; Scott on a question asking how many plugins are too many.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17171"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:40 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/trepmal/status/59294748233564161"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17172" title="Kailey's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.39.52-AM.png" alt="" width="469" height="188" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17267"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good reminder for using media queries to determine platforms, screen sizers, etc. rather than browser detection. Hat tip to <a title="Modernizr Javascript" href="http://www.modernizr.com/">Modernizr</a> as well.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17170"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:37 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking downsides of their system now. Seems to be: not everyone works best that way, certain social/emotional cues are hard to catch via text, etc.</p><p>&#8220;We tend to be almost too polite.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17168"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:35 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends <a title="CodePoet.com" href="http://codepoet.com/">CodePoet.com</a> as a place to find reliable WordPress professionals.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17264"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/terryloving/status/59322512756051968"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17265" title="Terry Loving's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.33.09-AM.png" alt="" width="519" height="248" /></a></p><p>Turns out <a title="WordCandy on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/WordCandy">@WordCandy</a> is a poetry Twitter stream. New direction for our site!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17263"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>You can check out CheeseCAP now at http://chzb.gr/CheezCAP.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17166"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We depend a lot on the WordPress community to police itself.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17262"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>A number of resource and helpful links at the end of the presentation, which will be available when she posts the slides on her blog later today. We&#8217;ll get a post up with all speaker&#8217;s presentations, of course.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17259"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not on the .org plugin directory yet, but it will be soon.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17164"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/nacin/status/59292603849523200"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17165" title="Andrew Nacin's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.31.21-AM.png" alt="" width="511" height="221" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17162"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Response to question: WordPress.com Publicize (social feature) can be added to Jetpack, but it isn&#8217;t being done yet. &#8220;Request noted.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17261"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommending minifying scripts, and using your own Javascript rather than a Javascript plugin option. All good reminders in this talk, smart plugin dev 101.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17137"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;There should be as little user-interface as possible. Imagine going to the bathroom and turning on the light. Only instead of flipping a switch, you have to go to the fuse box and start flipping switches then mess with the lighting, fading in and out. That would be annoying.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17258"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Kind of peeking into the blogger room&#8217;s &#8220;An Introduction to Making Money With a Blog&#8221; talk, just via Twitter mentions. I wonder what they would think of our <a href="http://wpcandy.com/is/powered">powered by</a> system?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17161"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s cool to see Scott in person talking. We&#8217;re always <a title="Scott Berkun on WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/profiles/scott-berkun">mentioning him</a> on the blog.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17257"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:28 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Hockley recommends <a href="http://www.oiopublisher.com/">OIO Publisher</a> for a direct ad sales manager plugin.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17256"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:28 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Can cheezCAP be automated?</p><p>&#8220;Sure, submit a patch! That would be great!&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17159"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:28 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://twitpic.com/4lmci5"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17160" title="WordCamp Seattle opening presentation crowd" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/278179277.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="358" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17255"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:27 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Focus on clean markup. Don&#8217;t add <code>div</code>s just because it&#8217;s easy to do. Also encouraging using templates to separate presentation from the logic, enabling users or other developers to make non-destructive changes.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17156"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17158" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-132/attachment/2011-04-16-09-24-13"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17158" title="Jetpack planning stages" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-09.24.13-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17157" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-132/attachment/img_0534"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17157" title="Planning screens for Jetpack" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0534-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17239"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Aaron Hockley is talking about how to make money with a blog. He&#8217;s discussing adsense, direct ad sales, affiliate programs, membership programs, and more.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17249"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Trading Cheezburger books for questions. Wish I wasn&#8217;t so shy&#8230;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17254"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:25 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Determine which browsers are important and focus on supporting them. Don&#8217;t feel like you need to support fringe browsers. Don&#8217;t use inline CSS, and don&#8217;t step on other&#8217;s potential classes/declarations.</p><p>Recommending <a href="http://sass-lang.com/">SASS</a>, as a sort of CSS programming option.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17154"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17155" title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 Wi-fi connection" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.23.18-AM-300x188.png" alt="" width="300" height="188" /></p><p>Pretty impressive Wi-fi connection here. No complaints.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17252"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="http://trendsmap.com/local/us/seattle"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17253" title="WordCamp Seattle trending on Twitter, in Seattle" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.22.59-AM.png" alt="" width="557" height="466" /></a></p><p>Kind of cool, #wcsea is now trending in Seattle.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17153"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:22 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;You can see in this picture, that because we&#8217;re used to working distributed, so when we&#8217;re together it&#8217;s pretty awkward. We stare off into space, we don&#8217;t talk&#8230;&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17251"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Enforcing proper plugin development philosophy now. Try to be less, not more. Stay as basic as possible. Don&#8217;t impose your own preferences, styles, etc. on the user&#8217;s theme. Also hearing a lot of &#8220;make choices, not options&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17152"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s talking about <a title="Jetpack" href="http://jetpack.me/">Jetpack</a>, <a title="Jetpack discussed on WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/?s=jetpack">heard of it</a>?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17248"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:20 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/jtmpnw/status/59319689356120064"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17250" title="Platform built on WordPress, via stream at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-11.18.49-AM.png" alt="" width="533" height="244" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17151"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:19 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Apparently I&#8217;m not supposed to worship the sun yet.&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;ll just let you refer to the recordings to make sense of that one.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17241"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:18 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;cheezCAP is a free, open source theme controller.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17247"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:17 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Laying down the argument for website speed. Consider user internet connections, not everyone has broadband.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17150"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:17 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good analogies:</p><ul><li><span>IRC is like the hallway. There&#8217;s always a group of people in chat rooms.</span></li><li><span>Skype is for small team meetings.</span></li><li><span>P2 is a combination of status updates from Twitter with the retention ability of blogs. (Not really an analogy I guess.)</span></li></ul><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17149"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:16 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Automattic communicates entirely via IRC, Skype, and <a title="P2 WordPress theme" href="http://p2theme.com/">P2</a>. Talking about how Automattic doesn&#8217;t use email to communicate like most do.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17245"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:15 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17246" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17245/attachment/2011-04-16-11-12-16"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17246" title="Toby McKes in the theme track at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-11.12.16-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17148"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We recently released the 25,000th version of WordPress.com&#8230; We believe the only way we learn is deploying.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17244"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Most options are not optimized for highly trafficked websites. Most focus on features.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17243"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking page load times with different numbers of plugins installed. Spoiler alert: more plugins <em>could</em> slow your site down.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17146"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17147" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-128/attachment/img_0533"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17147" title="List of Automattic principles" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0533-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17145"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:11 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t believe job titles are very important. We don&#8217;t believe where you work is important. We don&#8217;t even believe how long you work. We think it&#8217;s important what you get done.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17144"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a title="Automattic map of employees" href="http://automattic.com/map/">Automattic map of 70 or so odd employees</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17242"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Manian&#8217;s not a fan of W3Schools, suggest W3Fools.com. Used to work with Drupal primarily.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m from the enemy camp.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17143"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:10 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Regarding the distribution of Automattic employees: &#8220;We are everywhere. Like ninjas. We&#8217;re places you don&#8217;t expect us to be.&#8221;</p><p>Sounds like a threat, no?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17238"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:09 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17240" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-165/attachment/img_0538"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17240" title="View from the development track at WordCamp Seattle" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0538-e1302977378265-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Changed my seat, new view.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17235"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:09 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;I started with 17 WordPress blogs on my first day.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17142"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:09 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s background is as a writer, back before he moved to WordPress. He&#8217;s talking about how writing is important to the world, important to keep sacred.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17140"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:08 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/certifiedkory/status/59286007492771840"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17141" title="Kory McDow's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-9.07.53-AM.png" alt="" width="533" height="182" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17236"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 11:08 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-17237" title="WCsea" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/WCsea-600x217.jpg" alt="WordCamp Seattle" width="600" height="217" /><br /> The remote view of WordCamp Seattle.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17139"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:07 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Happiness Engineering team is what Automattic/WordPress.com calls their support team. And every employee who is hired has to spend three weeks in support first, before doing anything else. Clever idea.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17234"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:06 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Better plugin development talk starting now.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17138"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:06 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Turns out not a lot of folks here get many comments/day. New project: WPCandy will comment on all blogs. <em>Everywhere</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17135"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:05 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17136" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-121/attachment/img_0532"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17136" title="WordPress.com stats slide" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0532-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Nearly 20,000,000 blogs on WordPress.com. Referencing <a title="WordPress.com Stats" href="http://en.wordpress.com/stats">this page</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17117"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Aaron Kugler at 11:05 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Currently there are almost twenty million blogs across WordPress.com&#8221;- Scott Berkun</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17134"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:04 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m just kidding.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17133"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:03 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott Berkun just started breakdancing up there. Really odd.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17233"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 11:02 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Looks like it will be standing room only for &#8220;Cool as a LOLCat&#8221;.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17132"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:02 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>WordPress.com makes money three primary ways:</p><ol><li><span>Ads</span></li><li><span>Upgrades</span></li><li><span>VIP</span></li></ol><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17131"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 11:01 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>If you&#8217;re watching from home, remember the hashtag to follow is <a title="WordCamp Seattle hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wcsea">#wcsea</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17130"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:59 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Explaining the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. I&#8217;m glad, because I&#8217;ve been wondering about that one <em>for a while</em>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17129"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:58 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Scott&#8217;s getting going now. Going to be some time for FAQ at the end. Any questions you would like asked? Leave them in the comments or hit us up <a title="WPCandy on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/wpcandy">on Twitter</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17128"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:56 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Talking about the <a title="Seattle WordPress Meetup" href="http://www.meetup.com/SeattleWordPressMeetup/">Seattle WordPress Meetup</a>. It&#8217;s held at TechStars, if you&#8217;re local to Seattle. <em>Or</em>, if you love traveling hundreds of miles for local events.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17223"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:55 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Very good Q and A session with Justin Sainton, not Satin.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17127"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:54 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;The bathrooms are kind of&#8230; meager offerings.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17125"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:53 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/arianna/status/59280357140344832"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17126" title="Arianna O'Dell's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-8.52.27-AM.png" alt="" width="529" height="180" /></a></p><p>Aw, sad day.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17124"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re using these cameras to record and live stream. So, please try not to stand in front of them.&#8221;</p><p>Thanking sponsors now. Microsoft up first.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17122"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:51 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17123" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-112/attachment/img_0530"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17123" title="How is WordPress.com made?" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0530-e1302969059163-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17229"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:49 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Next presentation by <a href="http://wordcampseattle.org/speaker/divya-manian/">Divya Manian</a> on building better plugins. Back after the break.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17116"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Opening remarks happening now.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17228"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:48 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Slides and code will be posted on his site soon.</p><p>Thanks and applause for Will, great session!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17226"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:45 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Please work. Ah, great!&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17222"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Justin is describing their pricing structure as a way to figure out the market and what is out there.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17115"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>First up today is an all-track presentation by <a title="Scott Berkun's profile on WordCamp Seattle blog" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/speaker/scott-berkun/">Scott Berkun</a>, Team Social lead at WordPress.com for Automattic. The presentation title is, appropriately, &#8220;How is WordPress.com Made?&#8221; Still a few minutes before things really get going here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17219"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>What is your percentage of overseas interest?</p><p>&#8220;About 1/3 so far.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17220"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Test</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17113"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:37 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17114" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17113/attachment/img_0529"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17114" title="View from our table at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0529-e1302968069839-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Our view from our table. Place is filling up! I guess that&#8217;s what <a title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 sells out" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/350-attendees-at-wordcamp-seattle-2011">350 attendees</a> will do, eh?</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17213"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:36 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Aren&#8217;t you looking in the rear view mirror with this?</p><p>&#8220;Well, yes. But we believe WordPress is a better platform for it.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17216"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:34 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17217" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/auto-draft-159/attachment/2011-04-16-10-31-07"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17217" title="Justin Sainton presenting at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.31.07-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17215"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will&#8217;s now showing of his method for simplifying Ajax handlers. Refer to his slides for his class.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17111"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:32 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17112" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17111/attachment/img_0527"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17112" title="WPCandy shirts at the front table at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0527-e1302967911857-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Arrived and set up space for handing out WPCandy shirts at the front registration tables. Be sure to pick one up!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17214"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:31 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>We&#8217;ll likely have the blogging track covered here as well by the next hour. Rest of the team is running a quick errand.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17212"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:30 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>When Justin Vela talks about Justin Sainton in the other room, I like to pretend he&#8217;s speaking in the third person, like royalty.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17208"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Go to groupdealsplugin.com to check out what Justin is working on.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17109"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:29 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/toddflorence/status/59273996188913664"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17110" title="Todd Florence's tweet" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-8.27.48-AM.png" alt="" width="540" height="264" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17211"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:26 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Not to go too inside baseball, but live blogging sessions with lots of code examples (which is a good thing) is tough. Great presentation, hard to quantify it here.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17209"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:24 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17210" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17209/attachment/img_0537"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17210" title="Audience in the dev track room for Will Anderson's talk" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0537-e1302974638280-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>The current audience in the development track room.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17206"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:22 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>His slides include code examples, showing how to load up Javascript on only certain pages, or admin, or custom post type, etc.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17200"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>&#8220;Custom post types are the coolest thing since&#8230;&#8230; well I guess pages.&#8221;</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17188"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Brian Krogsgard at 10:21 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Good advice from Will: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to run a custom script on every page.&#8221; You can pull it in where needed to save load times.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17204"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:20 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17205" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17204/attachment/img_0536"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17205" title="Will Anderson at WordCamp Seattle 2011" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0536-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Talking <code>wp_enqueue_script()</code>, and generally how to start using Ajax in WordPress.</p><p>Did I mention I like that I was able to stay in the same place? Yup, no need to move yet.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17203"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:16 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Recommends using &#8220;jQuery&#8221; instead of the dollar symbol, for compatibility&#8217;s sake.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17202"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:14 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Quick overview of what Ajax is. He&#8217;ll be using jQuery for examples.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17201"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Will Anderson getting rolling, talking Ajax and WordPress.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17199"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m in the development track, Justin will be in the theme track. Plus, Krogsgard is at it from home. Liveblog to the max. And I&#8217;m uncool again.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17198"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:13 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Sainton not Satin!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17195"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:12 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17196" title="View from the theme track" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.05.10-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17197" title="View from the theme track" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/2011-04-16-10.05.56-600x450.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p><p>I&#8217;ll be in the theme track right now. My current view.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17121"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Justin Vela at 10:11 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Things are getting started in the Theming Track.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17194"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 10:07 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Apparently I&#8217;m really good with time.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17107"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:41 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a title="WPCandy thanks The Theme Foundry" href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/the-theme-foundry">Big thanks to The Theme Foundry</a> for <a title="You can power WPCandy too" href="http://wpcandy.com/is/powered">powering WPCandy</a> to attend WordCamp Seattle this weekend. We literally wouldn&#8217;t be here without them, so check them out and thank them!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17105"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:39 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>If you&#8217;re watching the events today from home, don&#8217;t miss out on the <a title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 live streams" href="http://wpcandy.com/reports/wordcamp-seattle-2011-will-be-live-streamed-today-starting-9am">live streams that the WordCamp Seattle folks are offering up</a>. Just be sure to keep our liveblog up in another tab!</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17192"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 9:01 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Changed timezone of the blog. Always forget stuff like that.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17096"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 8:57 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17097" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17096/attachment/img_0018"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17097" title="New mobile office, in Seattle Washington" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0018-e1302961887148-600x800.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="480" /></a></p><p>I&#8217;d like to think I&#8217;ve upgraded a bit since the <a href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblogged/wordcamp-phoenix-2011#liveblog-entry-13645">last time I shared my mobile office</a>. Hopefully it makes my blogging/developing that much better. Because that&#8217;s how it works.</p><p><em>Right?</em></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17095"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 8:46 am -- Saturday</strong></p><p>Up and at &#8216;em. Will be leaving for WordCamp in an hour or so, after which the real liveblogging will get going. T minus 2 hours.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17089"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 6:30 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-17090" href="http://wpcandy.com/liveblog_entry/17089/attachment/p4cbq"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17090" title="WordCamp Seattle 2011 venue ready" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/p4cbq-600x448.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="448" /></a></p><p>Sounds like the volunteers and organizers of WordCamp Seattle have wrangled everything together and finished prepping the venue. (<a title="WordCamp Seattle tweet" href="https://twitter.com/wordcampseattle/status/59034918667288577">via</a>)</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17087"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 6:19 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ve been asked to mention WP101&#8242;s deal for WordCamp attendees. If you&#8217;re interested in WordPress support videos, and/or getting a good deal, <a title="WP101 for WordCamp attendees" href="http://www.wp101.com/wordcamp">check them out</a>.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17077"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 5:46 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p><strong>Story time. </strong></p><p>The WPCandy crew missed their flight last night by a couple of minutes. So instead we spent the night in Indianapolis, grabbing a flight this morning to Milwaukee, where we have spent the better part of the day on a long layover waiting for our flight to Seattle.</p><p>We missed out on a day hanging out in Seattle, but at least we won&#8217;t miss the main event.</p><p>Did we mention we&#8217;ll need a drink or two tonight in Seattle? Yeah, that&#8217;s going to happen.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17075"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:27 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p>One more test.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div><div class="liveblog-entry" id="liveblog-entry-17067"><p class="live-blog-author"><strong>Ryan Imel at 4:16 pm -- Friday</strong></p><p>Just testing out the newly created liveblog. And sitting in Milwaukee being cold.</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17060">The WPCandy WordCamp Seattle 2011 Liveblog</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div></div></div>";}i:23;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:64:"WPCandy: Winners: Results of 16 more Theme Madness Round 1 games";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17005";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/oIYWIKx6m-0/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-2-and-3-winners";s:11:"description";s:13553:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17005"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17053" title="Theme Madness winners for Round 1 Days 2 and 3" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/thememadnesswinners-round1day23-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>The <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a> tournament has been roaring along really well so far. We’re into our last day of Round 1 voting, with just a few hours left . But today we’re talking about Day 2 and Day 3 winners.</p><p>We have the results of <em>sixteen</em> games, <em>sixteen</em> winners, and a couple of <em>very</em> close calls. We’ll dig in just after the jump.</p><h3>How we scored the games</h3><p>Just to recap, each game was run on three fronts. First, we counted up the polls for each game. Secondly, we counted up votes on Twitter. Finally, we counted up comments generated (if they were) on the competitor’s blogs. Top score won.</p><p><span id="more-17005"></span></p><h3>Results of Graph Paper Press vs. Panda Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Graph Paper Press: 93</span></li><li><span>12. Panda Themes: 42</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Graph Paper Press, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Solostream vs. ThemeShift</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Solostream: 26</span></li><li><span>12. ThemeShift: 91</span></li></ul><p>Winner: ThemeShift, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Theme Hybrid vs. Xtreme Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Theme Hybrid: 76</span></li><li><span>12. Xtreme Theme: 44</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Theme Hybrid, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of ThemeJam vs. Startbox</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. ThemeJam: 50</span></li><li><span>12. Startbox: 52</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Startbox, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Organic Themes vs. Storefront Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Organic Themes: 79</span></li><li><span>13. Storefront Themes: 22</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Organic Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Theme Garden vs. BlogOhBlog</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Theme Garden: 71</span></li><li><span>13. BlogOhBlog: 29</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Theme Garden, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Crowd Favorite vs. Working Wireframes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Crowd Favorite: 77</span></li><li><span>13. Working Wireframes: 24</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Crowd Favorite, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Pro Theme Design vs. Themes Kingdom</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Pro Theme Design: 60</span></li><li><span>13. Themes Kingdom: 42</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Pro Theme Design, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Press75 vs. Themes by Bavotasan</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Press75: 90</span></li><li><span>14. Themes by Bavotasan: 28</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Press75, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Headway Themes vs. Aloha Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Headway Themes: 103</span></li><li><span>14. Aloha Themes: 31</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Headway Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Templatic vs. ChimeraThemes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Templatic: 76</span></li><li><span>14. ChimeraThemes: 21</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Templatic, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Elegant Themes vs. Theme Trust</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Elegant Themes: 227</span></li><li><span>14. Theme Trust: 16</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Elegant Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of KreativeThemes vs. Dessign</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. KreativeThemes: 82</span></li><li><span>11. Dessign: 30</span></li></ul><p>Winner: KreativeThemes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of WPBundle vs. Catalyst Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. WPBundle: 91</span></li><li><span>11. Catalyst Theme: 263</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Catalayst Theme, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Mojo Themes vs. Theme Junkie</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. Mojo Themes: 112</span></li><li><span>11. Theme Junkie: 25</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Mojo Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Themify vs. Bizz Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. Themify: 114</span></li><li><span>11. Bizz Themes: 25</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Themify, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>What do you think of the results so far?</h3><p>We’re beginning to see results show up on the big <a title="Theme Madness 2011 Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">Theme Madness Bracket</a>. How do you think the results are shaking out? Are you surprised by any of the results so far? How are your own personal brackets going?</p><p>Remember, we still have a few hours left to vote for the <a title="Theme Madness Round 1 voting, day 4" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-4-voting">last few games of Round 1</a>.</p><h3>Updated Theme Madness Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a href="http://pandathemes.com/">Panda Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://storefrontthemes.com/">Storefront Themes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.solostream.com/">Solostream</a> vs. <a href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a></p><p><a href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a> vs. <a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/">BlogOhBlog</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://themehybrid.com/">ThemeHybrid</a> vs. <a href="http://xtreme-theme.com/">Xtreme Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a> vs. <a href="http://workingwireframes.com/">Working Wireframes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> vs. <a href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a></p><p><a href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a> vs. <a href="http://themeskingdom.com/">Themes Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></p><p><a href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></p><p><a href="http://press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. <a href="http://themes.bavotasan.com/">Themes by Bavotasan</a></td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd"><td class="column-1">April 14</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/">Dev4Press</a> vs. <a href="http://www.indonez.com/">Indonez</a></p><p><a href="http://ithemes.com/">iThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themewarrior.com/">ThemeWarrior</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> vs. <a href="http://www.vivathemes.com/">Viva Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pagelines.com/">Pagelines</a> vs.<a href="http://wonderthemes.com/"> Wonder Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://gorillathemes.com/">Gorilla Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://wpshower.com/">WPShower</a></p><p><a href="http://diythemes.com/">DIYThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-force.com/">ThemeForce</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://tokokoo.com/">Tokokoo</a> vs. <a href="http://standardtheme.com/">Standard Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/">Theme Foundry</a> vs. <a href="http://themefuse.com/">ThemeFuse</a></td></tr><tr class="row-6 even"><td class="column-1">April 18</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17005">Winners: Results of 16 more Theme Madness Round 1 games</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:00:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:13553:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17005"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17053" title="Theme Madness winners for Round 1 Days 2 and 3" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/thememadnesswinners-round1day23-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="240" /></a></p><p>The <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness" href="http://wpcandy.com/series-on/theme-madness-2011">Theme Madness</a> tournament has been roaring along really well so far. We’re into our last day of Round 1 voting, with just a few hours left . But today we’re talking about Day 2 and Day 3 winners.</p><p>We have the results of <em>sixteen</em> games, <em>sixteen</em> winners, and a couple of <em>very</em> close calls. We’ll dig in just after the jump.</p><h3>How we scored the games</h3><p>Just to recap, each game was run on three fronts. First, we counted up the polls for each game. Secondly, we counted up votes on Twitter. Finally, we counted up comments generated (if they were) on the competitor’s blogs. Top score won.</p><p><span id="more-17005"></span></p><h3>Results of Graph Paper Press vs. Panda Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Graph Paper Press: 93</span></li><li><span>12. Panda Themes: 42</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Graph Paper Press, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Solostream vs. ThemeShift</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Solostream: 26</span></li><li><span>12. ThemeShift: 91</span></li></ul><p>Winner: ThemeShift, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Theme Hybrid vs. Xtreme Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. Theme Hybrid: 76</span></li><li><span>12. Xtreme Theme: 44</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Theme Hybrid, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of ThemeJam vs. Startbox</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>5. ThemeJam: 50</span></li><li><span>12. Startbox: 52</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Startbox, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Organic Themes vs. Storefront Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Organic Themes: 79</span></li><li><span>13. Storefront Themes: 22</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Organic Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Theme Garden vs. BlogOhBlog</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Theme Garden: 71</span></li><li><span>13. BlogOhBlog: 29</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Theme Garden, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Crowd Favorite vs. Working Wireframes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Crowd Favorite: 77</span></li><li><span>13. Working Wireframes: 24</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Crowd Favorite, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Pro Theme Design vs. Themes Kingdom</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>4. Pro Theme Design: 60</span></li><li><span>13. Themes Kingdom: 42</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Pro Theme Design, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 19</a>.</p><h3>Results of Press75 vs. Themes by Bavotasan</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Press75: 90</span></li><li><span>14. Themes by Bavotasan: 28</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Press75, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Headway Themes vs. Aloha Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Headway Themes: 103</span></li><li><span>14. Aloha Themes: 31</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Headway Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Templatic vs. ChimeraThemes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Templatic: 76</span></li><li><span>14. ChimeraThemes: 21</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Templatic, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Elegant Themes vs. Theme Trust</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>3. Elegant Themes: 227</span></li><li><span>14. Theme Trust: 16</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Elegant Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of KreativeThemes vs. Dessign</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. KreativeThemes: 82</span></li><li><span>11. Dessign: 30</span></li></ul><p>Winner: KreativeThemes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of WPBundle vs. Catalyst Theme</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. WPBundle: 91</span></li><li><span>11. Catalyst Theme: 263</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Catalayst Theme, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Mojo Themes vs. Theme Junkie</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. Mojo Themes: 112</span></li><li><span>11. Theme Junkie: 25</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Mojo Themes, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>Results of Themify vs. Bizz Themes</h3><p>After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:</p><ul><li><span>6. Themify: 114</span></li><li><span>11. Bizz Themes: 25</span></li></ul><p>Winner: Themify, who will be competing again <a title="WPCandy Theme Madness Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">on April 20</a>.</p><h3>What do you think of the results so far?</h3><p>We’re beginning to see results show up on the big <a title="Theme Madness 2011 Bracket" href="http://wpcandy.com/theme-madness">Theme Madness Bracket</a>. How do you think the results are shaking out? Are you surprised by any of the results so far? How are your own personal brackets going?</p><p>Remember, we still have a few hours left to vote for the <a title="Theme Madness Round 1 voting, day 4" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-4-voting">last few games of Round 1</a>.</p><h3>Updated Theme Madness Schedule</h3><table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-14-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-14"><thead><tr class="row-1 odd"><th class="column-1"></th><th class="column-2">Bracket A</th><th class="column-3">Bracket B</th><th class="column-4">Bracket C</th><th class="column-5">Bracket D</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row-2 even"><td class="column-1"><a href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/theme-madness-2011-round-1-day-1-voting">April 11</a></td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://themeopoly.com/">Themeopoly</a></p><p><a href="http://gothemeteam.com/">Theme Team</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://biothemes.com/">BioThemes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://richwp.com/">RichWP</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themebaker.com/">Themebaker</a></p><p><a href="http://flexithemes.com/">FlexiThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://signaturetheme.com/">Signature Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bandthemer.com/">BandThemer</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd"><td class="column-1">April 12</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press</a> vs. <a href="http://pandathemes.com/">Panda Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.organicthemes.com/">Organic Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://storefrontthemes.com/">Storefront Themes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.solostream.com/">Solostream</a> vs. <a href="http://themeshift.com/">ThemeShift</a></p><p><a href="http://themegarden.com/">ThemeGarden</a> vs. <a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/">BlogOhBlog</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://themehybrid.com/">ThemeHybrid</a> vs. <a href="http://xtreme-theme.com/">Xtreme Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/">Crowd Favorite</a> vs. <a href="http://workingwireframes.com/">Working Wireframes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://themejam.com/">ThemeJam</a> vs. <a href="http://wpstartbox.com/">Startbox</a></p><p><a href="http://prothemedesign.com/">Pro Theme Design</a> vs. <a href="http://themeskingdom.com/">Themes Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="row-4 even"><td class="column-1">April 13</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://themify.me/">Themify</a> vs. <a href="http://bizzthemes.com/">Bizz Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">Elegant Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://themetrust.com/">Theme Trust</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.mojo-themes.com/">Mojo Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/">Theme Junkie</a></p><p><a href="http://templatic.com/">Templatic</a> vs. <a href="http://www.chimerathemes.com/">ChimeraThemes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.wpbundle.com/">WPBundle</a> vs. <a href="http://catalysttheme.com/">Catalyst Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://headwaythemes.com/">Headway Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://alohathemes.com/">Aloha Themes</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://www.kreativethemes.com/">KreativeThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.dessign.net/">Dessign</a></p><p><a href="http://press75.com/">Press75</a> vs. <a href="http://themes.bavotasan.com/">Themes by Bavotasan</a></td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd"><td class="column-1">April 14</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.dev4press.com/">Dev4Press</a> vs. <a href="http://www.indonez.com/">Indonez</a></p><p><a href="http://ithemes.com/">iThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.themewarrior.com/">ThemeWarrior</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://www.wpzoom.com/">WPZoom</a> vs. <a href="http://www.vivathemes.com/">Viva Themes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pagelines.com/">Pagelines</a> vs.<a href="http://wonderthemes.com/"> Wonder Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://gorillathemes.com/">Gorilla Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://wpshower.com/">WPShower</a></p><p><a href="http://diythemes.com/">DIYThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.theme-force.com/">ThemeForce</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://tokokoo.com/">Tokokoo</a> vs. <a href="http://standardtheme.com/">Standard Theme</a></p><p><a href="http://thethemefoundry.com/">Theme Foundry</a> vs. <a href="http://themefuse.com/">ThemeFuse</a></td></tr><tr class="row-6 even"><td class="column-1">April 18</td><td class="column-2"><a href="http://www.woothemes.com/">WooThemes</a> vs. <a href="http://www.appthemes.com/">AppThemes</a></td><td class="column-3"><a href="http://themeforest.net/">ThemeForest</a> vs. <a href="http://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire Themes</a></td><td class="column-4"><a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> vs. <a href="http://premiumpress.com/">PremiumPress</a></td><td class="column-5"><a href="http://oboxthemes.com/">Obox Themes</a> vs. <a href="http://upthemes.com/">UpThemes</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17005">Winners: Results of 16 more Theme Madness Round 1 games</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:77:"WPCandy: WordCamp Seattle tickets likely to sell out today with 350 attendees";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17040";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/oF0wqIKVMlw/350-attendees-at-wordcamp-seattle-2011";s:11:"description";s:1543:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17040"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17042" title="WordCamp Seattle tickets selling out (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampseattletickets-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="578" height="256" /></a></p><p>It appears that <a title="WordCamp Seattle" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/">WordCamp Seattle</a>, the event we&#8217;re <a title="WPCandy will be at WordCamp Seattle 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/wpcandy-will-be-attending-wordcamp-seattle-2011">attending</a> and <a title="WPCandy coverage of WordCamp Seattle 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-seattle">covering</a> this weekend, will be selling out today. This will bring the attendee number to 350, which is a considerable number for a WordCamp. Tickets were made available in mid March this year, and only a handful remain.</p><p>The remaining tickets are <a title="Register for WordCamp Seattle" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/registration/">available</a> for either $30 for general submission, or $25 for students, but you better act fast. I&#8217;m happy to say WPCandy snatched up four of those tickets, and will be enjoying the festivities this weekend (and of course liveblogging).</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17040">WordCamp Seattle tickets likely to sell out today with 350 attendees</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:48:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:1543:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17040"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17042" title="WordCamp Seattle tickets selling out (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/wordcampseattletickets-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="578" height="256" /></a></p><p>It appears that <a title="WordCamp Seattle" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/">WordCamp Seattle</a>, the event we&#8217;re <a title="WPCandy will be at WordCamp Seattle 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/announces/wpcandy-will-be-attending-wordcamp-seattle-2011">attending</a> and <a title="WPCandy coverage of WordCamp Seattle 2011" href="http://wpcandy.com/at/wordcamp-seattle">covering</a> this weekend, will be selling out today. This will bring the attendee number to 350, which is a considerable number for a WordCamp. Tickets were made available in mid March this year, and only a handful remain.</p><p>The remaining tickets are <a title="Register for WordCamp Seattle" href="http://wordcampseattle.org/registration/">available</a> for either $30 for general submission, or $25 for students, but you better act fast. I&#8217;m happy to say WPCandy snatched up four of those tickets, and will be enjoying the festivities this weekend (and of course liveblogging).</p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17040">WordCamp Seattle tickets likely to sell out today with 350 attendees</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:90:"WPCandy: Preview the upcoming Event Espresso mobile ticketing app (for iPhone and Android)";s:4:"guid";s:27:"http://wpcandy.com/?p=17021";s:4:"link";s:105:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wpcandy/~3/Qet1HrngTlU/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps";s:11:"description";s:5758:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17021"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17035" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/eventespressoapps-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>The team at Event Espresso, the popular WordPress event registration plugin (and <a title="Event Espresso powers WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/event-espresso">friend of WPCandy</a>), have been working hard on iPhone and Android versions of a new mobile app. The app will be for mobile ticketing at events, and reviewing attendee lists. To get a good feel for the app&#8217;s intended functionality, check out the screenshots we have in the gallery below.</p><p>The apps will work in conjunction with the Espresso&#8217;s ticket QR codes, via the add-on they released <a title="Event Espresso QR code ticketing add-on" href="http://eventespresso.com/2011/01/customizable-printable-event-tickets-qr-code/">earlier this year</a>, by scanning the codes at the door to check in attendees.</p><p>Development on the apps <a title="Event Espresso app development begins" href="http://eventespresso.com/2011/02/iphone-android-onsite-check-in-app-development/">began</a> a couple of months ago. The completed apps should be showing up in their respective app stores in the next couple of weeks. What do you think of the screenshots? And how many WordPress plugins would you like to see mobile apps developed for?</p><p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0115" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 01"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0115-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 01" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 01" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0116" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 02"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0116-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 02" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 02" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0117" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 03"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0117-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 03" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 03" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0120" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 04"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0120-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 04" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 04" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0121" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 05"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0121-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 05" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 05" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0122" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 06"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0122-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 06" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 06" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0123" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 07"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0123-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 07" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 07" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0125" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 08"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0125-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 08" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 08" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/eventespressoapps-teaser" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/eventespressoapps-teaser-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/eventespressoapps-thumb" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (thumb)"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/eventespressoapps-thumb-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (thumb)" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (thumb)" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17021">Preview the upcoming Event Espresso mobile ticketing app (for iPhone and Android)</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:02:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"Ryan Imel";}s:7:"summary";s:5758:"<p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17021"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17035" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/eventespressoapps-teaser.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="250" /></a></p><p>The team at Event Espresso, the popular WordPress event registration plugin (and <a title="Event Espresso powers WPCandy" href="http://wpcandy.com/thanks/event-espresso">friend of WPCandy</a>), have been working hard on iPhone and Android versions of a new mobile app. The app will be for mobile ticketing at events, and reviewing attendee lists. To get a good feel for the app&#8217;s intended functionality, check out the screenshots we have in the gallery below.</p><p>The apps will work in conjunction with the Espresso&#8217;s ticket QR codes, via the add-on they released <a title="Event Espresso QR code ticketing add-on" href="http://eventespresso.com/2011/01/customizable-printable-event-tickets-qr-code/">earlier this year</a>, by scanning the codes at the door to check in attendees.</p><p>Development on the apps <a title="Event Espresso app development begins" href="http://eventespresso.com/2011/02/iphone-android-onsite-check-in-app-development/">began</a> a couple of months ago. The completed apps should be showing up in their respective app stores in the next couple of weeks. What do you think of the screenshots? And how many WordPress plugins would you like to see mobile apps developed for?</p><p><a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0115" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 01"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0115-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 01" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 01" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0116" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 02"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0116-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 02" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 02" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0117" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 03"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0117-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 03" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 03" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0120" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 04"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0120-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 04" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 04" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0121" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 05"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0121-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 05" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 05" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0122" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 06"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0122-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 06" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 06" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0123" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 07"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0123-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 07" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 07" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/img_0125" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 08"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/IMG_0125-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 08" title="Event Espresso mobile app screenshot 08" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/eventespressoapps-teaser" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/eventespressoapps-teaser-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (teaser)" /></a><br /> <a href="http://wpcandy.com/previewed/the-upcoming-event-espresso-iphone-and-android-apps/attachment/eventespressoapps-thumb" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (thumb)"><img width="150" height="150" src="http://wpcandy.com/files/2011/04/eventespressoapps-thumb-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (thumb)" title="Event Espresso iPhone and Android apps (thumb)" /></a></p><div class="tentblogger-rss-footer"><p>You just finished reading <a href="http://wpcandy.com/?p=17021">Preview the upcoming Event Espresso mobile ticketing app (for iPhone and Android)</a> on <a href="http://wpcandy.com" title="WPCandy WordPress community news">WPCandy</a>. Please consider leaving a comment!</p><p></p></div>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:68:"Matt: Tim Ferriss On Facebook, Twitter And Building A Huge Web Brand";s:4:"guid";s:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=37964";s:4:"link";s:30:"http://ma.tt/2011/04/tf-on-wp/";s:11:"description";s:1387:"<div class="blockquote"><blockquote><p>I think there’s a difference between having a bestselling book–meaning through marketing, PR and buying that first wave of customers–and writing a bestselling book. The second implies that the product propels itself to the best seller list. That’s not to say that I’m Tolstoy or the best writer, but I used Facebook and Twitter more for feed back as I was creating and refining the book than for the actual marketing itself. My main online tool for priming the pump for the launch of the book was the blog. That was the heartbeat and the nexus for all the different tools that I use.</p></blockquote></div>
