Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.

My Bookmarks

If you are using delicious or simpy as your bookmarking tool, this plugin is for you. This will help a WordPress user to show his valuable bookmarks on sidebar.

Blogging Tips

Similar to the Hello Dolly format, which puts a line of lyrics in the upper right hand space in the Word Press Administration screen, the blogging tips plugins displays random blogging tips and suggestions. The tips are just some ideas of what you can do to improve the popularity of your blog and improve the content. All of the tips are designed to inspire you to be a better blogger.

WP-Post-Banners

Display banners(resized images) from your posts automatically. You can supply it parameters like banner size, post filters and maximum amount of banners to be shown.

Gravatar Recent Comments

ZdWidgetComments, also named Gravatar recent comments is a plugin providing you with a “Top/last commenters” widget but instead of just displaying names, it also displays gravatars.

Open Picture Window

Opens a new browser window containing the image specified using JavaScript. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered.

If you are an IIS or i18n user, we’ve fixed a few annoying bugs that might be bothering you depending on your hosting setup.  If you are an IE user who uses Press This, we fixed some image insertion problems for you.  Check out the full list of almost 50 fixes and see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you.

If 2.6.1 looks interesting or if you just want to help us test and make sure we didn’t break anything else, go grab the 2.6.1 beta 1 package.  If all goes well, expect the final 2.6.1 release before WordCamp San Francisco rolls around.

Simple, two column, red and grey themes

Fresh’d

Fresh’d is a two-column, widget and gravatar ready theme with a left sidebar, and colors and layout greatly inspired by the WordPress Administration interface introduced in WordPress version 2.5. This theme has a built-in “Recent Comments” and “Previous Posts” section in the sidebar.

Mad Meg

Mad Meg is a 2 column fixed-width theme with right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets. The Mag Meg theme is based around the painting, Dulle Griet. It a dark theme to match the subject matter of the painting and is ideal for blogs on political satire, art, poetry or any dark writing especially that poking fun at the establishment.

Unknown Theme

Unknown Theme v3.0is a grey and white, two column theme ideal for news, video and reviews blogs.

When - Saturday, August 16, 2008
Where - Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco — Map
Why - To get WordPress users together, learn from each other, figure out the future of publishing the web, and have a good time.

Sam Bauers - Sam will be speaking about upgrading WordPress and how to do it hassle free.

Lloyd Budd - Lloyd will be discussing the aspect of switching to WordPress. I’ll be particularly interested in what Lloyd has to say in terms of migrating from one system to WordPress.

Aaron Brazell - Aaron should be no stranger to most within the WordPress community. He’ll be discussing the aspect of search and findability.

Tantek Celik - Tantek will be discussing a subject I’m not too familiar with and that is Microformats. He’ll be discussing their past, present and future.

Jeremy Clarke - Jeremy will talk about democratizing the web through global voices.

Tom Coastes - Tom’s sessions will be about ’something’. According to the speaker list, they have him listed as mystery meat.

Liz Danzico - Liz will be talking about Crazyhorse, the new branch of WordPress which is used as a User Interface testing bed.

Ben Huh - Ben huh who runs the I Can Has Cheezburger blog will be talking about LOLcats as well as the topic of virility.

Noel Jackson - Noel who is known for producing the Monotone WordPress theme will be talking about color theory and the making of Monotone.

Mark Jaquith - Mark, author of the popular Subscribe to comments plugin will be discussing secure coding with WordPress. A topic that all plugin authors should be interested in.

Chris Lea - Chris will be speaking about Nginx for Fun and Profit.

Alan Levine - Alan will be talking about the future of education and WordPress. It will be interesting to see how many educational institutions are tapping into WordPress and what they are doing with the platform.

SEO Rapper - That’s right, Chuck Lewis also known as the SEO Rapper will be performing at the event. That should be fun!

Matt Mullenweg - You can’t have a WordCamp without Matt Mullenweg! His sessions will be all about the state of WordPress. If you are going, make sure to ask him why the team has decided to incorporate so many plugins into the core of 2.7.

Will Norris - Will (will) be talking about OpenId, OpenAuth, and OpenStandards. Perhaps this session will unearth the possibility of WordPress supporting OpenID out of the box, sometime in the future.

Stephen O’ Grady - Stephen will be discussing open source business models. I imagine a prime example of such a company who is currently operating under an open source business model is Automattic. This session should be very interesting to those who don’t believe open source and business model should be in the same sentence.

Andy Peatling - Andy Peatling, the creator of the BuddyPress project will be on hand to discuss the state of BuddyPress.

Joseph Scott - Joseph will be talking about the WordPress APIs as well as the iPhone. will be interesting to learn where the WordPress APIs are going and how the team plans on extending or using the API for future versions of WordPress.

Kathy Sierra - Kathy will be talking about a subject that is very interesting to me right now and that is, kicking ass and creating passionate users. Passionate users are something I think all bloggers would like to have but never succeed in doing so.

Andy Skelton - Andy will be on hand to perform live.

Lorelle Van Fossen - Another WordCamp fan favorite Lorelle Van Fossen, will on hand to provide bloggers with 450 WordPress Power User Tips. Now, I’m not sure how she is going to go through these 450 tips but it sounds like an intense WordPress training routine. Someone get this sessions on Ustream!

Jane Wells - Jane will also be discussing the Crazyhorse branch of WordPress.

Jeremy Zilar - Jeremy will be discussing how the New York Times transformed into using WordPress. I bet this will be an interesting session as well considering how large of a site the New York Times is.

Thats it. Those are the people who will be sharing their abundance of knowledge this year at WordCamp San Francisco. For those of you attending the event, you must choose wisely which sessions you plan on attending considering this is a one day event. The schedule has yet to be posted so keep an eye out on the official WordCamp San Francisco website for details.

For Those Attending:

Which of these sessions appears to be the most interesting to you? Also, if you will be Ustreaming, live blogging or Twittering the event, be sure to comment and leave us a link so those of us who are not able to make it this year can at least pretend we are there in real-time with your updates.

Add interactive video capabilities to your blog! Enhance your WordPress blog with a full video experience. Enable playing and editing of video remixes.

Authenticate Lite

Authenticate Lite enables universal and/or targeted inclusion of custom content for both feeds and posts. Ideal for adding copyright information, distribution policy, thank-you messages, custom links, special offers, etc.

WP-UnitPNGfix

WP-UnitPNGfix includes the ‘unitpngfix.js’ javascript file if the browser is IE6 or lower. In plain words, it implements the solution for the PNG transparency provided by Unit Interactive Labs. It works on both img objects and background-image attributes.

Constant Contact WordPress Widget

Adds Constant Contact signup form to your sidebar without touching code. Includes options for Title, Button Text, Tag Wrapper, Form ID Code, and Intro Paragraph. The form code is as standards-compliant as possible while still working with Constant Contact.

Weather Postin’

Weather Postin’ retrieves the current weather provided from RSS Weather when your post is published. After that, when you view your posts the weather conditions will display at the end of your post. This does not alter the original text of the post; it is only displayed at run-time.

Postalicious

Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit, or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog. The exact details of how your bookmarks are posted is very customizable and is designed to meet your specific needs.

iLast.Fm

The plugin iLast.Fm provides a complete integration between your blog and your Last.fm account.

I’ve visited other blogs (here, here and here) who have mentioned this story. In a unifying way they have expressed a great loss for the internet.  Patry’s copyright blog has been a great reference to lawyers, politicians, big big companies and well, his fans.  That blog will surely be missed.

Who is William Patry?  He is…

Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc. Formerly copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, formerly Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights, formerly Law Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; author of numerous treatises and articles (including one on fair use with Judge Richard Posner), including the new 7 volume treatise on “Patry on Copyright”. The views in this blog are strictly mine and should not be attributed to Google Inc.

That text reference was taken from the “about me” section of his blog accessed thru www.archive.org .  The last line, to me,  is the most striking one.  His blog was a personal blog, and while he is Senior Copyright Counsel of Google, that last line separated his views from his office.  When he posts, he says he posts not as Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel, but as William Patry.  It would seem that many found it hard to read his words in a personal nature.  Reading his farewell post, he mentions that he leaves for two reasons:

1. The Inability or Refusal to Accept the Blog for What it is: A Personal Blog
2. The Current State of Copyright Law is too depressing

• Weekly digests! This needs a good deal of testing, help us find bugs
• Ability to exclude @replies from daily and weekly digests and blog posts
• Updates to match Twitter API changes so that “in reply to” links are properly created
• A bunch of little things I’m forgetting now

Weekly digests is a rather complicated feature to build, and took a good chunk of time. Luckily, we had a development sponsor for this feature, who I will thank properly in the final release (once I receive permission to give them credit).

I realize that version 1.2 never got to a final release version, but we had an opportunity to get these features built, so I took advantage of it.

Finding time to test, package and release plugins has been a bit challenging of late.¹ Hopefully I’ll have more time to get things pushed out going forward.

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

If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.

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David Peralty has published an extensive guide on the GeeksareSexy website which contains all of the information you’ll need to know on how to run WordPress with Subversion. Grab your favorite beverage because the article is quite lengthy.

I’ve been wanting to setup a WordPress/subversion install on my local machine but never quite figured out how to do it. This article has inspired me though and I plan on going through with the process within the next few days. If you end up installing WordPress with Subversion, let me know about your experience.