Wordpress Weekly Segment Notes for 05/09/2008

**WordPress News For The Week Of May 9th 2008**

*Automattic Turns 21 –* Automattic, the company behind Wordpress.com has hired it’s 21^st employee. He goes by the name of Warwick Poole and has been hired on to keep the barriers to publishing low by scaling the infrastructure which runs wordpress.org, wordpress.com akismet and other automattic sponsored projects. - http://blog.linuxinternet.org/joining-automattic/

*Your Favorite BookMarklet?* - Matt Mullenweg laid the question out their to the community to receive their feedback on what publishing bookmarklet did they favor the most. Many people including myself vouched for the usefulness of the Tumblr bookmarklet. Some mentioned the WP Quickpost plugin but others were quick to point out that the quickpost plugin lacked features. It would appear as though there may be some development going on into a new bookmarklet, which disappeared with the release of WP 2.5

*Subscribe To Comments Now Unchecked By Default* – The popular subscribe to comments plugin which was developed by WordPress core developer Mark Jaquith now leaves the subscribe box unchecked by default. According to Mark, the previous method which was an opt out way of thinking was and has continued to be a shady practice and makes for a bad end user experience. Mark now leaves the choice of subscribing left to the reader by default. This sets a good trend that I and many others hope will continue. - http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/why-subscribe-to-comments-doesnt-let-you-check-the-subscription-box-by-default/

*Plugin of the week* – The plugin for this week is called Article Templates. Article Templates enables template support for both posts and pages. If you find yourself routinely posting the same information in relatively the same layout, this plugin is perfect for you as you can manage as many templates for content as you can create. However, the plugin only supports the templating of content and not of categories, tags, and post titles associated with the post. Things I would love to see added to the plugin. - http://www.bin-co.com/tools/wordpress/plugins/article_templates/

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