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Snapshot Backup creates a snapshot backup of your entire website: that’s your Database, current WP Core, all your Themes, Plugins and Uploads. The resulting single archive file is then uploaded to an FTP repository of your choice.

You can use one FTP repository for snapshots from various sites and group them using File Prefixes and Subdirectories to tell your snapshots apart.

If you don’t have an FTP account you can download the file from your local server at the end of the backup.

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Audio Book Pick: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: The Millennium Trilogy, Book 31

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BM Shots is a plugin that makes use of WordPress api for automatically creating screenshots of your website.

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Audio Book Pick: Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay

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WordPress SEO is the most complete SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview that helps you optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.

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Audio Book Pick: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

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Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Features include:

• Simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server. Previously provided by WordPress.com Stats.
• The WP.me URL shortener.
• Hovercard popups for your commenters via Gravatar.
• Easily embedded media from popular sites like YouTube, Digg, and Vimeo.
• For the Math geeks, a simple way to include beautiful mathematical expressions on your site.
• A widget for displaying recent tweets. Previously provided by Wickett Twitter Widget
• Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks. Previously provided by the Sharedaddy WordPress plugin.
• Your writing will improve thanks to After the Deadline, an artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker. Previously provided by the After the Deadline WordPress plugin.
• and many more to come!

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Audio Book Pick: Bossypants by Tina Fey

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If you manage multiple contributors within a blog, and go back and forth writing articles, the Edit Flow WordPress Plugin” will be a complete lifesaver. Features include…

• Custom Statuses – Create any number of custom statuses to define the stages of your editorial workflow. By default, Edit Flow adds “Assigned”, “Pitch”, and “Waiting for Feedback” to WordPress’ default “Draft” and “Pending Review”.
• Editorial Comments – Threaded commenting in the WordPress admin on every post for discussion about the production of a given piece of content. This can cutdown on long-winded back-and-forth email threads as all comments are conveniently displayed within the Edit Post page.
• Email Notifications – Receive email notifications for new editorial comments or when a post changes status. Notifications are delivered to admins and the post author by default, but any users that comment on posts will receive follow up email notifications.
• Usergroups – Similar to roles, usergroups provice a way to group users that perform similar roles in your organization. At the moment, usergroups can be subscribed to posts so that all members receive post updates.
• Calendar – View all of your upcoming posts on a week-by-week calendar, and filter by post status, category, or user.
• Editorial Metadata – Define custom editorial metadata to be attached to every post. Admins can add editorial metadata like “contact information”, “assignment description”, “due date”, or “location” using the following field types: checkbox, date, location, paragraph, text, or user dropdown.
• Story Budget – View all of your upcoming posts in a more traditional story budget view. Posts are grouped by category, and view can be filtered by post status, category, user, or limited to a date range. Hit the print button to take it on the go.

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Audio Book Pick: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: The Millennium Trilogy, Book 1 by Stieg Larsson

It’s time for more WordCast Podcast talking Facebook, Google, Lady Gaga, Webby Awards, Watson, WordPress, fake bloggers, the Beatles… did we leave anything out? Hosts Kym Huynh and Lorelle VanFossen talk web publishing and social web news and trends this week without Dave Moyer who decided to go on vacation to sunny California.

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Links and Resources

We covered a ton this week, so here are the resources to help you learn more about what we covered on the WordCast Podcast.

• UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right, But Fast and Cheap May Be as Important as Open | Singularity Hub
• Post Comments Using Twitter and Facebook — WordPress.com
• Rare photographs of the Beatles from a press conference and show in 1964 in the United States photographed by Mike Mitchell were released
• New post says Syrian 'Gay Girl' blogger is a hoax – CNN.com and Another Supposedly Lesbian Blogger Turns Out To Be A Man : The Two-Way : NPR
• The 15th Annual Webby Awards ceremony and our Watson wins for Person of the Year (see IBM's Watson Wins Test Round and WordCast Conversations 19: Stephen Baker, Author of Final Jeopardy Man Vs. Machine on WordCast Conversations)
• Largest data breaches of all time – Infographic by FlowingData
• Bre.ad Launches URL Shortener That Aspires To Be Your Own “Personal Billboard”
• Google Launches Voice Search On Desktop and Google Announces ‘Instant Pages,’ ‘Instant’ Image Search And ‘Instant’ Availability In 32 Languages
• TechCrunch – With 250 Million Downloads Angry Birds Moves Into Magic, Cookbooks, And More
• Facebook Face Recognition:
  • Facebook’s Face-Recognition Tool Stirs Privacy Concerns – WSJ.com
  • How To Block Facebook’s Face Recognition And Tighten Other Privacy Settings | Fast Company
  • Marine finds long-lost half-brother from Vietnam War thanks to Facebook facial recognition | Mail Online
  • Facing Facts: Facebook’s Facial Recognition | PCWorld
  • Facebook fatigue: 6m in US bored with site deactivate accounts amid privacy fears | Mail Online

We’re back for one more edition of the WordCast Podcast, and it’s all about Twitter! They’re buying Tweetdeck, they’re launching their own photo and video sharing, and they’re in the middle of a political scandal! We’ll even discuss the latest WordPress development news, and the Yoast/WPMU Dev controversy. All that and more inside!

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Links and Resources

WordPress 3.1.3 (and WordPress 3.2 Beta 2)

Apple's WWDC: iCloud, iOS 5, Lion, and more (roundup) (hear more on Life Plugged In podcast)

Twitter launches own photo-sharing service

Twitter Buys TweetDeck For $40 Million

Audible Pick of the Week: Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales

Did Anthony Weiner Tweet a Picture of His Weiner?

Joost de Valk accuses WPMU DEV of copyright infringement, sends cease and desist | WPCandy

EBay acquires Magento, builds a commerce OS

We’re here for the first episode of WordCast’s second hundred episodes, and it’s a big one! WordPress 3.2 beta 1 is here, and we have your inside info on all the new features. bbPress as a WordPress plugin is here in beta. PLUS: Is the CIA tracking Facebook?

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bbPress the WordPress Plugin Beta 1 is here!

Glenn Beck Launches Groupon Competitor, and what is the future for group coupons?

Audible Pick of the Week: Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe

WordPress › WordPress 3.2, Beta 1

10 Amazing Hipstamatic iPhone Photos

CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs on the Onion News Network

Comments on WordCast Podcast 100

WebVisions on Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress

It’s the 100th episode of the WordCast Podcast, and we’ve come a long way in the past three years. The whole team’s here to share the good, the bad and the ugly in our special centennial edition.

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We had a good time looking back at some of our favorite and funniest moments on the WordCast Podcast.

The Very First Episode: WordCast 1: WordPress Weirdos

Kym Flies Very Very Very Solo: WordCast 9: Kym flies solo

Dave Flies Solo with Happy Birthday to Matt Mullenweg: WordCast 42: Happy Birthday, Matt!

Lorelle Takes Over with Her First Appearance on WordCast: WordCast 20: We *heart* Lorelle

The Never-ending Search for What is a Wist: WordCast 35: Typing with Whisks

The WordPress Fairy Blogmother Makes an Appearance: WordCast 29: I’m Your Fairy Blogmother!

The Best Job in the World: WordCast 43: The Bikini Job

Ed Morita of Baker’s Hours gets the first WordPress tattoo live during our show: WordCast 45: Is that WordPress on your wrist?

Dave Explains the Titles of WordCast: Special Feature: The Titles of WordCast

The 50th Episode Featuring the Voices of WordCast: WordCast 50: Our Semi-centennial!

Honoring Derek K. Miller: The last post

How Far WordCast Has Come and Grown in Three Years: WordCast Plugin Picks, WordCast Conversations, Bitwire Media Productions, Stories of Our Journeys, Life Plugged In, and more.

You can learn more about the history of WordCast on our About Page and learn more about the brilliant minds behind WordCast.

Say Thank You, Gracie: The WordCast team must thank the wonderful people who make this happen, without whom the last three years would not have happened, nor survived without their giggles and twisted sense of humor and commitment to this project.

Dave Moyer, Kym Huynh. Lorelle VanFossen, Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today, Liz Strauss, Beth Skinner, Matt Mullenweg, Jane Wells, Jeff Chandler of WP Tavern, Andy Staines, Vladimir Prelovac, Brian Gardner, Tara Anderson, and everyone we’ve ever abused, cheered, or praised.

We’d also like to thank our mothers, per Kym’s request, and our fathers, as they rarely get the recognition they deserve.

Finally, we’d like to thank you, the audience, for all your incredible support over the last three years. We couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for a great hundred episodes, and here’s to even more.

Facebook adds yet another button to your website, Twitter is filled with sex and dating (what else is new?) and Amazon takes down half the internet! PLUS: Yet another celebrity presser!

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Links and Resources

The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private – Facebook Developers

Twitter.com’s Top Tweets Link to Adult Dating Spam? #NSFW – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Official Google plugin automates the website verification process

Audible Pick of the Week: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey

Amazon EC2 Outage Shows Risks of Cloud – PCWorld Business Center

Why Amazon EC2's Titanic went down – Apr. 22, 2011

Multimedia Reporting Tool Storify Now Available to Public

Celebrity Pressers: Dan Ariely

SOBCon 2011: The Must Attend Online Business Conference

WordCamp : Developers | Vancouver, BC | May 5, 2011