Episode 33: WordPress 2.3.2 released, WordPress 2.4 missed and changes to the podcast
Discussed in this long-overdue and extremely lengthy episode are such subjects as:
- Changes coming for the podcast
- WordPress 2.3.2 released and is considered an urgent security release.
- WordPress 2.4 is a missed release, WordPress 2.5 in the works: Westi on WordPress, David Peralty’s Admin Overview and Liz Danzico’s WordCamp session on the admin overhaul (including her slides).
- WordPress Developers Considering Change to Release Schedule
- Automattic Receives $29.5M in Series B Funding
- WordPress wins Crunchie for “Most Likely to Succeed”, Toni Schneider “Best Startup CEO”
- Blog security gains attention: David Airey hacked using a GMail exploit, Blogging Pro wonders how secure WordPress is, Simple Thoughts details ways to harden your WordPress blog from attack, Ryan Boren discusses ways WordPress 2.5 will have a new format for authentication cookies and a new password hashing algorithm, there’s a plugin to secure your admin pages, Donncha O Caoimh details other ways to secure your blog, and Blog Security’s Whitepaper on securing your blog is indispensible.
- Turk Hit Box is offering free custom-designed WordPress themes provided your blog has a Pagerank of 4 or higher, it’s at least 8 months old, your rss subscriber count is more than 50 and you leave the footer link intact.
- Akismet Updated to 2.1.2
- WordCamp Dallas is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 29th and 30th and includes notable bloggers and podcasters such as Matt Mullenweg, Cali Lewis, Lorelle VanFossen, Aaron Brazell, Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss, Jonathan Bailey, John Pozadzides, Chris Smith, Jacob Santos and moi.
- Two new WordPress-related podcasts you might also enjoy listening to are Talking WordPress with Steve Sande and Chuck Joiner and WordPress Weekly with Jeffro
- Lorelle’s WordPress.com news: 2 million blogs!; Avatars in your Dashboard; Enhanced stats; Enhanced feeds liven up your blog
- Plugin: Blog Voyeur 0.2 by Donncha O Caoimh uses the cookie left by WordPress when a person leaves a comment on a blog to track when they come back and what they look at when they do
- Plugin: WordPress Dual Feeds by Stephen Cronin allows you to offer readers both full post and summary feeds for all your blog feeds.
- Plugin: ShareThis updated to 2.1b1, adds features
2.3.3 of Wordpress is now out. Just for your information.
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
Don’t you mean 2.3.3 was released?
“WordPress 2.3.2 released and is considered an urgent security release.”
I suppose you mean Wordpress 2.3.3
I’m well aware 2.3.3 was released, however, the episode was already recorded and we’ll cover what’s in 2.3.3 in next week’s episode.
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[...] consider subscribing to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!After a nearly two-month hiatus, the WordPress Podcast is back with episode 33. Charles Stricklin and myself sat down this weekend to discuss the past few months worth of [...]
Glad to see you’re back!
Listening to the podcast right now… Dude! 11 minutes of meta stuff before the first WordPress related news topic.
Jan, it’s not like we do it all the time.
thanks, nice podcast…
Two things -
first you mentioned automattic as having 2 T’s. Look close it actually has 3.
second - go back to the Jazz! Why be the same as everyone else with rock. There is already too much of that stuff.
mike
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Hey Charles. I actually enjoy the rock theme music better than the jazz. The jazz was unique and gave you that happy feeling but the rock music pumps me up. You and Jonathon did a good job and I volunteer to hold you accountable for coming out with a show each week.
Thanks for the link love and for mentioning my own podcast. You have an open seat anytime you feel like participating.
Charles,
That big mall in Frisco is called StoneBriar mall and it’s directly off the corner of 121 and the Dallas North Tollway.
And I’m looking forward to finding out if I can actually make it through all 45 tips in just 45 minutes!
John
i’d love to hear one of your cats meow once in a while. that’d add a whole lot of emotions into the podcast.
(i should add half of an irony marker here, but then again…
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Hi there, I griped above about the long intro, and I just wanted to follow up on that.
First, good on you for adjusting the style for episode 34.
Also, thanks for mentioning and linking to the other WordPress podcasts; there clearly is room for more than one podcast about WP. Like one of them said, they skip the business/insider news about Automattic and focus on the user experience instead. As long as the various WP podcasts have different style, focus, content, you’re supplementing each other rather than competing, and I’ll keep listening to all of them (and keep skipping over bits and pieces here and there).