Episode 38: WordPress 2.5 not released… yet!
Included in this episode:
- WordPress 2.5 wasn’t released last week as we expected, and don’t expect it for several weeks.
- ThemeShaper.com asked 11 prominent WordPress theme designers to predict the future.
- WPThemeKit is a WordPress theming system where you choose from one of several htnk “blanks” representing your preferred layout of overall width, along with the number and position of sidebars.
- WordPress is once again one of the Open Source projects chosen by Google to include in their Summer of Code for 2008.
- Lorelle VanFossen is also jazzed about WordPress 2.5 coming to WordPress.com, details a security vulnerability for WordPress.com blogs was fixed in less than 10 minutes after initial report, Matt Mullenweg’s report that more than 800,000 blogs, or splogs, have been removed from WordPress.com, and the February Wrap-up for WordPress.com has the latest statistics for the free blog hosting service.
- FirstTimer Wordpress Plugin v1.0 by Bobby Handzhiev checks to see if an identifying cookie is located when a viewer views your blog, and if one if not found, displays a message you’ve written specifically for new visitors.
- SEO Friendly Images v1.1 by Vladimir Prelovac goes throough all of the images used on your blog, checks to see if already have ALT and TITLE tags set, and generates valid XHTML tags for them based on options you’ve set.
- MinisterMark verifies the WP Spam Blocker generates dofollow links to their site.
- Corey Thompson points out the answer to last episode’s blogroll question.
- Simon Jones reports back that a new service’s bot was the cause of his blog’s bandwidth problems.
I cant wait. I just tested 2.5 out on another one of my sites and the backend is beautiful!
I think 2.5 is really going to get people excited again about blogging.
And you’re doing a great job of representing the community that’s behind all of it.
I’ve tried someones WP5 test site and I notice a little ‘problem’… it also happened to WP2.3
When I edit a widget… text widget, I can’t ‘higlight’ texts. Lets say I want to higligts some texts to be copied or to cut, I can’t do that. I’m using IE7 and Vista… any idea why?
just beginning to listen to episode 38… Already I can hear the extra preparation and professionalism you guys are putting into this podcast. We Wordpress users really appreciate what you’re doing for us! We need you I’ll be donating when I finish this note! Thanks guys (and Lorelle)
I went looking for the bit in the Codex you mentioned for reordering the blogroll to most recently updated, and found this useful-looking thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/121596
Yet - RC1 is out - so people can use that if they like. So while the complete version may not be ready to roll, this is probably as good as we’re going to get for now.
@swordie - That’s an IE7 problem. It causes all sorts of weird problems with WordPress. Use FireFox and you’re good to go.
I’ve installed the first release candidate from the wordpress.org website, and i must say .. Evrything just works fine and the new ‘looks’ are also a pretty thing for the eye!
For a little more informationabout searchme.com’s obnoxious bot see this site…
http://www.webmasterworld.com/analytics/3560874.htm
I’ve also reduced the amount of posts on the front page of my blog to 5 considering that you both said it took a while to load. The thing is the server I am on is rubbish so I really need to move to another host who can actually serve the site quicker because as much stuff as is on the site, it shouldn’t really take that long to load.
Anyway, another great show guys. I too use the radio talk when referring to podcasts by the way.
Oh and another thing, I ‘no opinioned’ on the poll just because nobody did last time and I feel that we shouldn’t neglect that no opinion
Oh and PS. Your ‘Sign me up for a free Gravatar!’ thing didn’t seem to work for me. I also went over the the plugins website and found a few people complaining that it didn’t send the confirmation email - Just thought I’d make you aware of that.
When can we expect to see an official release date for 2.5? I am using svn to keep my blogg up to date and are using 2.5.RC1 at the moment. Would be nice to have a time frame for when to update again :>
Tadd#… Thanks for the advice. It works fine with FireFox now
Can’t believe the IE is doing this
I’m using the 2.5 RC1 download currently, and it rocks!
Hello, Have you had any reports of your audio player not working since the recent Firefox 2.0.0.13 update? I use the player on several sites in many dozens of instances. I f you could let me know if you’re also experiencing a problem with Firefox I’d appreciate it. Perhaps Firefox and/or 1 Pixel Out can be persuaded to remedy this.