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I’ve had good luck with PHP Weather.

I just wanted to take a moment and second (or third?) the patience mantra. The core developers have proven remarkably responsive to suggestions from the community, however I think it is probably best to let them go about the business of debugging and getting 1.0 out the door.
The enthusiasm is great, but at a certain point you run into the too many cooks thing. Clearly it’s not practical to give everyone interested in contributing upload privileges to the CVS and even if that was desirable, as more changes are made we begin to run into the problem of not having any one person know exactly how all the pieces mesh.
From a user perspective, this is less than desirable. Not everyone is interested in being on the bleeding edge and the bulk of those downloading WP for the first time may not want anything more than stability, ease of use and a painless installation process — even if it comes at the cost of a few features.
In closing, I think these forums are a fine way to pass on code, suggestions and ideas to the developers and don’t see the need for a more formal system. At a certain point, it may be best to take a step back and let the core people who cooked this thing up in the first place and likely have the best understanding of it, do what they do best. In the long term, the increased user base that the stability and already included features of 1.0 will assure, will do more to spur development than any other single factor.

Matt, that is so cool. A valid (nearly, except for those unfortunate unescaped ampersands) Gallery. I’ll be stashing that away on my local testing server for the next time I revisit Gallery ( something I seem to do every six months). Thanks for sharing it.
Anonymous, for me the best route towards getting a consistent photo gallery set up (I haven’t done it with Gallery and WP, but have with MT and PhotoStack, but the principles apply) would be to think of the WP functions as extra tags. There is no reason you can’t use your regular WP template and plug your photo gallery scripting into it replacing the WP stuff.

Beautiful. Worked like a charm, thanks.

Why not hack in BlogAmp? Won’t do Windows, but it works well for Winamp <3.
The javascript is easily edited, otherwise all you need is FTP.

That’s the only reason I pointed it out. I understand that it’s not a priority (and shouldn’t be) but would hate to see you guys go the hack it, we’ll make it work anyplace, route.
If it was me, I’d skip the whole thing… text is good and fancy backgrounds only an author will see strike me as much ado about nothing.

Thanks.
I’m aware of this, but nonetheless remain concerned about my inability to use line breaks in a post. One of the things that I like about WordPress is that the stylesheet and default template is logical and semantic.
In the case of the above example the line break would be presentational so it makes perfect sense… however, it’s not hard to foresee times I would want them as structural elements, and in that case would hate to have to create dedicated classes.
BTW, this is a minor annoyance in a beta version of a wonderful piece of software. Very nice work.