<div class="rss-widget"><ul><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://blog.akismet.com/2014/04/15/akismet-3-0-0/' title='Version 3.0.0 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This is a major rewrite of the plugin code. It includes many small improvements and some new features. In particular:  An easier signup and activation process An even easier activation process for Jetpack users A redesigned configuration tab New stats charts (example shown below) A new discard feature for outright blocking of the worst spam   To update to version 3.0.0, just use the plugin updater in your WordPress dashboard. If you’re running WordPress 3.9, there’s no need to update. If you haven’t installed Akismet on your WordPress blog yet, follow these instructions to get started. Thanks again to everyone who helped test the new plugin and offered suggestions and bug reports.   '>Akismet: Akismet 3.0.0 is now available</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://nacin.com/2014/04/15/my-talk-proposals-for-open-source-bridge/' title='I submitted two proposals to Open Source Bridge, an annual conference in Portland, Oregon, for “open source citizens.” The call for papers is now closed, but they let anyone leave comments on proposals that are private to the conference organizers. If you have any feedback on these, or have seen me speak before, it would be awesome if you could leave a comment. Here they are: Extreme Software Portability as an Art Form Writing portable software is hard. Throw in thousands of bad and worse shared hosting configurations, a decade of technical debt, the need to cater to a sprawling ecosystem, and PHP — and you have WordPress. We’ve found breaking changes harm our community and unfairly punish our users, so we don’t make them. But that doesn’t mean we don’t innovate or evolve — we’re just forced to get really clever. And it works, with adoption continuing to soar. Trust, Community, and Automatic Updates WordPress shipped in October what is perhaps its most polarizing feature ever — automatic updates in the background of self-hosted web software, on by default and no easy way to turn it off. In most open source communities, this would be cause for open revolt. Learn how through trust, communication, and a steadfast commitment to its philosophies, the WordPress core team convinced a skeptical community to go along, even if it meant users giving up some control. WordPress contributors Mel Choyce and Aaron Jorbin also both submitted proposals: My Journey into Open Source Design and Modernizing a Stagnant Toolbox. '>Andrew Nacin: My Talk Proposals for Open Source Bridge</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wptavern.com/ozh-tweet-archiver-2-0-backs-up-your-tweets-to-wordpress?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ozh-tweet-archiver-2-0-backs-up-your-tweets-to-wordpress' title=' Social networks come and go but your blog lives forever. The advent of social media brought a revolution in how people communicate, but it has also chained us to data silos that house many of our important thoughts, writings and memories. That is, unless you have your own blog or website as your home for your content on the web. Instead of mindlessly pumping content into a social network that is owned by someone else, you might stop to consider archiving that data to a better place where you can keep it forever. In a time when digital transactions and communications are the lifeblood of our work, owning your own data has become more important than owning land. Ozh Tweet Archiver is one tool that makes owning your Twitter data a practical possibility. This free plugin automatically archives all of your tweets to your WordPress site. Browsing your tweet history is nearly impossible on Twitter, but with Ozh Tweet Archiver in place, you can easily search through your past tweets. Version 2.0 is compatible with Twitter’s OAuth API. The plugin should be installed on a fresh WordPress site or subdomain. Once in place, it offers the following benefits:  Searching is easier in WordPress than on Twitter WordPress is not limited to the most recent 3200 tweets It will automatically expand all those ugly t.co links All your #hashtags can be converted to WordPress tags  Check out a live demo of @ozh Twitter account archives. Once the plugin is set up, it will automatically perform checks for new tweets at your chosen interval, so you won’t need to do anything else.  Tweets are imported as regular posts with a few custom fields. The plugin includes an options panel for setting the post author, category for tweets, and the ability to turn on links for usernames. It also has an option to link hashtags to WordPress tags or Twitter hashtags. You can even turn on embedding for images that originate on pic.twitter.com. Someday Twitter may lose all of its charms and fall to the wayside like many other networks before it. When that day comes, you’ll be glad that you archived all of your tweets to WordPress. If Twitter is one of your primary communication channels, consider the value of backing up your content to your home on the web with Ozh Tweet Archiver. For more information on getting your archive set up, please refer to the official plugin page, which includes documentation and troubleshooting tips.'>WPTavern: Ozh’ Tweet Archiver 2.0 Backs Up Your Tweets to WordPress</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wordpress.tv/2014/04/15/noel-tock-le-design-dinterface-la-cas-dhappytables-en-anglais/' title='    '>WordPress.tv: Noel Tock : Le design d’interface : la cas d’Happytables (en anglais)</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wordpress.tv/2014/04/15/jean-baptiste-marchand-arvier-utiliser-wordpress-pour-son-site-e-commerce/' title='    '>WordPress.tv: Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier : Utiliser WordPress pour son site e-commerce</a></li></ul></div>