Archive for January, 2007
Episode 18: Habari, WordPress 2.0.6 released, WordPress 2.1 enters Beta
Yet another overdue episode (I apologize: work and moving slowed me down), episode 18 covers:
| 01:34 | Feedback: We clear up some misconceptions about GPL and Andy Beard’s Disclosure Policy Plug-in. |
| 04:46 | Feedback: Matt Mullenweg suggests we’re underestimating the value of WordPress.com. |
| 06:03 | Feedback: Seoras informs us the of the proper way to speak his name. (We’re sorry about that…) |
| 07:15 | Feedback: Lloyd Budd sounds off on misconceptions about KnowNow and disclosure policies. |
| 08:19 | Feedback: Tibor shows he’s a new, and apparently, very devoted fan. |
| 09:05 | Feedback: Dr. Mike reminds us that WordPress.com’s support forums are there to help you, should you decide to edit your own style sheets. |
| 10:34 | News: Several veteran WordPressers have begun to develop Habari, a new blogging package that it causing some controversy among WordPress users. |
| 15:34 | News: WordPress 2.0.6 was released including some security fixes, so everyone should update to at least this version. Shortly after its release, a minor bug affecting users of the FeedBurner service, so if this includes you, you should consider updating directly to 2.0.7-RC1. |
| 17:26 | News: WordPress 2.1 has entered Beta. |
| 19:26 | News: Automattic’s mailing lists, particularly the WP-Pro mailing list, are a good way to stay up to date on everything WordPress. Charles mentions Elance.com as a way to request freelance projects or bid on them yourself, and make some extra spending money. |
| 21:27 | News: WordPress was listed on Michael Arrington’s Web 2.0 companies he couldn’t live without. |
| 22:37 | News: WordPress was also listed as #7 in Wired Magazine’s Web 2.0 Acquisition Bait. |
| 23:35 | News: The NeoSmart Files offered some gushing praise of WordPress, calling it, “Undoubtedly the single most influential tool in the blog-boom, WordPress has not only revolutionized the web as we (used to) know it, but also completely changed the daily ins and outs of web development forever. It’s not just about the power and perfection of the package, but also the coding standards, community benefits, and open source modeling.” |
| 26:41 | Plug-in: The WordPress Order Pages re-arranges your page-order easily. If you’ve ever manually moved one page’s order, only to find you have to update every other pages order as well, then this plug-in is for you! |
| 28:10 | Plug-in: MengTracker shows the links clicked by your visitors, the exact clicking place of the links (page and region of your site), and the clicking time with pretty charts. |
| 29:14 | Plug-in Download Counter keeps track of the number of downloads from your site, only tracking those clicks you choose. |
| 29:43 | Plug-in iMP Download is a download manager featuring download count, force download, quicktags, etc. It integrates with search engines to find your downloads easily and paginates your download lists. |
| 31:06 | Plug-in: Feed With Comments includes your comments along with your posts in the feed that newsreaders read. Note: Some feed readers will display entries as new if the content is altered (i.e., a new comment was made). This could be annoying for your readers, but its actually the correct behavior. |
| 32:24 | Plug-in: Post2PDF exports posts to a customizable Adobe PDF file. |
| 33:59 | Plug-In Michael Geoghegan’s Podcast Release provides an acceptance form for legal releases for guests you have on your podcast. |
Episode 17: 120-day turnaround between 2.1 and 2.2?
In this waaaay overdue episode, we cover topics such as:
| 2:25 | Charles takes another stab at explaining why LDAP support is so important to KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition. |
| 5:32 | There’s discussion that there’ll be a 120 day turnaround between 2.1 and 2.2. |
| 8:16 | There’s also a rumor that when the employees of Automattic gather in San Francisco this month, they’ll decide on a date for WordCamp 2007. |
| 11:59 | Plug-In: DupPrevent helps you avoid being penalized by Google for duplicate content by inserting NOINDEX meta tag in pages that might trigger Google’s duplicate content filters. Also contains a robot.txt file to disallow spider access to files that need not be included in engine’s index. |
| 15:22 | Plug-In WordPress Wii Edition shows an interface designed for the Nintendo Wii when visitors come to your site on a Wii with the Opera browser. Wii’s are automatically detected, there is no configuration needed. (We also found a link to use Google Maps to locate Wii users near you.) |
| 18:10 | Widget: Twitter creates individual links to each of your status updates to its post on Twitter.com. You control how your Twitterings appear using CSS (to more closely match your blog, no doubt.) |
| 20:53 | Widget: Nike Plus displays statistics gathered from your Nike+ shoes such as total number of workouts, total distance run, time spent running and an estimate of total calories burned. |
| 23:11 | Plug-In: WP Movie Ratings v1.4 (Updated) allows you to share your movie reviews with your readers along with links to the Internet Movie Database with some nice features, as wel.. |
I apologize for taking so long to publish this and episode 18, which should be following very soon, but between my day job and moving, things have been crazy around here.
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