Episode 18: Habari, WordPress 2.0.6 released, WordPress 2.1 enters Beta
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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. |
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I’d just like to say I know very little about the Habari “situation.” Someone only pointed me to the site yesterday, but I can’t imagine why this would cause any problem. WP is open-source. The chances of someone creating an offshoot have always been there, and in the spirit of open source software, it might be considered a good thing.
I’m the author of the Feed With Comments Plugin, thanks for mentioning it
As Matt stated, he would feel uncomfortable if a comment to post made one year ago would be shown as new in the newsreader, and I absolutely agree with him. However, this is not what the plugin does. It only shows the comments to those posts who would be displayed anway (usually the last 10). Comments made to older posts wouldn’t show up or flag the post as being new.
Just to clarify this
[...] Potete trovare i commenti di Davis e Mullenweg sull’episodio 18 del Wordpress podcast.Speriamo che questo nuovo concorrente serva da stimolo agli sviluppatori di Wordpress per migliorare ancor più questa piattaforma. PUBBLICITÀ PUBBLICITÀ postato da Cristian il lunedì 22 gennaio 2007 in: [...]
Oh this is embarassing… as I only listened to the plugin part of the podcast (until now), I assumed from the voice that it’s Matt (Mullenweg) who comments on my plugin. Sorry David!
Ha! It’s okay Jeriko, I’ll take the mistake as a compliment.
Are you on holiday? When can we expect the next podcast?
David and I have both been extremely busy over the last several weeks; he with work and I with moving apartments, coming down with the flu and generally meeting myself coming and going at my day job.
With a three-day weekend in the U.S. this weekend, I plan to get something produced this weekend, even if it’s just me by myself.
Charles is too nice to admit it, but its completely my fault. I have received a promotion with Bloggy Network, and they have had me running around all busy like a chicken with my head cut off getting tons of work done. Sludging through a bunch of things, but I am still committed to getting an episode out as well. Big appologies from me!
/me also looking forward to the next episode.