哦 WordPress 粉丝们，现在有人为它做了首歌：It’s Called WordPress。via: Matt

可以下载它的MP3或者rar

歌词

Welcome to my story bout my, CMS
It’s an awesome piece of software, it’s called WordPress
It manages my blog, it makes it look real nice
I installed in in 5 minutes, this things slicker than ice
All I had to do, was click on Next
Within seconds I was running, no room to get vexed

It’s called WordPress
It’s my CMS
It’s the best thing to hit the web since porn
The code is open, the source is free
It’s available for people, just like you and me

Once I picked my title and wrote a description,
I clicked on manage, I needed to do so me fixin’
I deleted Hello World, got rid of first comment, too
I clicked on View Site and all I saw was plain blue
I moved to Presentation, there were some nice looking themes
But none fit my style, none screamed Devin Reams

Chorus

After I tweaked the code and played with CSS
I installed myself some plugins, I was real impressed
They organized my archives, they helped me tag, too
Then I installed a spam blocker not a single one came through
I added movie ratings and book ratings as well
Now when people visit me they’ll know that Crank was hell

Chorus

So I made an about page, it got me a stalker
I was thrilled and excited, I wanted to to talk to her
She said she knew my hometown, what I looked like, too
It was mentioned that she loved guys with eyes that were blue
I didn’t mind the attention, decided it was time she had met me
Little did I know, some people named their boys Leslie

Chorus

Now you might be thinking, he plays piano real good
I wish it were true, I sure wish I could
Instead I wrote the lyrics to this nerdy tune,
It was GarageBand provided ballad piano number 2

Chorus x2

关键词: WordPress

WordPress & Jazz and The Future of Web Apps? - matt
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关键词: Jazz, WordPress

在 zheng 那儿看到这个 timeline，觉得非常有趣和漂亮。他使用 mytimelines.net 的服务做了个刻录事的时间之矢。但因为不支持中文，所以显示的都是 ??。

其实这应该是比较容易做的啊，特别是对专业的程序员来说。

我这个非程序员想着做一个相关的 WordPress 插件。我先粗略地 hack 了一下，过程和代码见这里，例子在这里：桑林志 TimeLine。希望有人能在此基础上，真地做出个 WordPress 插件来。

关键词: hack, PressLine, timeline, WordPress, 插件

对订阅桑林志的朋友说抱歉，估计不少人（比如说使用bloglines的朋友）这两天老收到假更新。原因是我在折腾桑林志的 feed，先是 FeedBurner 的 FeedFlare，再是 WordPress 的 Better Feed 插件。

FeedFlare 可以让你很方便的插入 email it，add to del.icio.us 等等，让你的 feed 多一点交互性；也可以加上版权声明，attribution 等等，可以一定程度上保护发布者的权益，抑制滥用。因为FeedBurner 开放了 FeedFlare API，实际上可以做各种各样的事情，只要发挥你的想象力了。

我首先想做的是，把 FeedBurner 官方提供的那几个 Flares 简单汉化一下，似乎是因为它们对多字节语言的支持不大好，中文的 flare 在 feed 上都显示为 ??? 了。FeedBurner 对中文的支持一直是个问题，我进它的管理界面，我的 feed 的中文题目都显示为 ???，虽然不影响烧制后的 feed。

于是，我改为安装一个 WordPress 插件Better Feed，FeedFlare 有的，这个插件多数也能实现。这个插件也是很灵活的，实际上只要少作 hack，你可以在 feed 里加入任何想要的东西。

不过我觉得 FeedFlare 还是更好玩一点，因为它面向的是所有 FeedBurner 的用户，这个群体还是很巨大的，可以做一些好玩的应用。

关键词: Better Feed, FeedBurner, FeedFlare, WordPress

小小地更新了下中文 WordPress 工具箱，都是根据网友的意见。

1、把 get_recent_posts () 又放回去了。以前拿掉是因为，这个事情可以用 wp 的 wp_get_archives() 来做。

2、给了两个新函数：get_recent_comments_only () 和 get_recent_trackbacks ()，分别用来（仅）提取最新留言，以及（仅）提取 trackback 和 pingback。WP 区分 trackback 和 pingback，这里没有加以区分。（我个人甚至没觉到区分留言和引用的必要。：）

关键词: WordPress, 插件

从 Matt 那儿看到，有人讲解了如何在 U 盘上安装 Web 服务器以及 WordPress。提到了两种方式：使用 Webserver On a Stick 或者 Xampplite。

在U 盘上安装 WordPress，可有不少潜在的用处。一个本机且移动的 WordPress 可用作个非常方便的杂记本啊。

同样的办法，应该可以在 U 盘上装别的 Web 软件，首先想到的是装个 Wiki。

关键词: U 盘, WordPress

Boing Boing 和 WordPress 的 Matt 都报道了 Lyceum，这个WordPress多用户版变种。

据说，与 WordPress MU 相比，易用性更好。它们在数据库的处理上，走向相反。哪种方式更利于 scale up，双方的开发者有不同的看法。

Matt 的评论：

From my examination of the code, it seems it’s exactly what WordPress MU is except they’ve modified every SQL statement (what a pain!) to use a monolithic table structure. We tested this approach for MU, but found it was too expensive to scale past a certain point. With monolithic structures you hit a wall based on your hardware. In MU users are divided and can be partitioned easily, for example on WordPress.com we have the users partitioned between 4096 databases, which allows you to scale very cheaply and efficiently to hundreds of thousands and even millions of users and extremely high levels of traffic. It’s unfortunate the Lyceum folks came to different conclusions and decided to focus their efforts on a fork rather than on the core codebase, especially as the massive changes going into WP 2.1 are going to be difficult to merge, but I still wish them the best and I’ll be watching the project closely and picking up anything interesting they do and bringing it back to WP. (Such is the beauty of Open Source. :) )

Lyceum 的 FAG 里说：

Q: Why would I used Lyceum instead of WordPress?
A: Lyceum is for applications where you want it to be easy to create and manage many blogs from one place. For applications where only one blog is needed, WordPress will be the more suitable solution (the website you are reading now is running on WordPress).
Q: How different is the Lyceum code from the WordPress code?
A: Almost every SQL statement has been changed. There have been many changes made to add security that is needed in a multi-blog environment. IN terms of features and the vast majority of business logic, essentially none of the other code has been changed. Lyceum is currently synchronized with WordPress 2.01, and will continue to synchronize its codebase with future WordPress releases.

关键词: Lyceum, WordPress