SimplePie’s community of users keeps getting larger and larger, and we think that’s just dandy. That also means that there have been flood of new questions at the support forums, and I just want to say two things about that.

First is that there is a note near the top of the forum page that is highlighted in yellow, and has a link to the Bug Reporting Guidelines. Please, understand that it makes our lives MUCH simpler if we have that information when you post about your issue. I’ll oftentimes need to begin with asking someone what version of SimplePie they’re using because it simply wasn’t stated up front.

Secondly, because the forum questions have picked up recently, from time to time, a forum question might get overlooked or missed. It’s not that we don’t want to help you, but occasionally something will get missed. If you think this may have happened, please bump the thread so that we can find your question again.

Thanks for the questions, and we’ll continue to do the best we can to continue answering them. 🙂

For those who are feeling charitable, and like seeing happy developers work on SimplePie, please consider donating in the form of wishlist gratification! (Geoffrey and Ryan).

If you’re not feeling charitable, that’s okay too. Just tell other people about how much you like SimplePie, and we’ll call it even. 😉

For those of you who are hardcore about SimplePie and want to show your SimplePie pride, we’ve created the first of (hopefully) many wallpapers for your computer desktop. The first one is called “Dark Star” and is available in several different sizes.

Are you artistically gifted and want to design your own SimplePie wallpaper to share with the world? Let us know about it in the new Wallpaper and Graphics forum, and we’ll let the world know about it. Upload the various wallpapers and graphics to your website, we’ll pull them down, and upload them to our graphics repository. We’ll even post about it on the SimplePie blog!

So that you can all have the necessary tools, the font we use is Yanone Kaffeesatz (kerned to -4) and the SimplePie logo is an editable Macromedia Fireworks PNG (for smaller uses of the logo, I remove the outer border and the top layer). Since this is our logo, I would ask that you refrain from using our logo for anything other than SimplePie-related wallpapers and graphics.

(The SimplePie logo is copyrighted by Ryan Parman. All rights reserved. A license to use this logo is granted exclusively for the designing of SimplePie-related graphics, and is not to be used for any other purpose.)

If possible, when you create your wallpapers, please create them in the following sizes:

• 480 x 272 (for PSP)
• 800 x 600
• 1024 x 768
• 1280 x 1024
• 1440 x 900
• 1600 x 1024
• 1680 x 1050
• 1920 x 1200
• 2560 x 1600

Enjoy!