- Automattic CEO and WordPress project leader Matt Mullenweg was a guest on episode 17 of the WordPress Weekly podcast with Jeff Chandler, and during the show, I asked Matt why WordCamp San Francisco, scheduled this upcoming August 16th at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the campus of the University of California at San Francisco, would be only one day instead of two, as it had been in previous years, as well as the overlap between it and the New Media Expo.
- WP Comment Remix is an entrant into the current Weblog Tools Collection plugin competition and it promises to bring “a plethora of new options and features to WordPress.” Ronald Huereca reviewed it at Weblog Tools Collection Videos. Some of the features it includes are:
- Reply and quote links for commenters - You can add a Reply link to each comment, which, when clicked, adds “@OriginalPoster”, and links it to the anchor of that comment. Also, clicking the Quote link has a similar action to the Reply link, but it adds the entire comment in a blockquote tag.
- Comment Ordering - You can choose how you want to order the comments for your readers - By Author name or Date, and Ascending or Descending
- Either separate or remove trackbacks- You can choose to separate the Trackbacks from the comments and move them to the bottom of the list, or remove them completely
- Comment Tags - allow your readers (and you) to find comments more easily, instead of having to read through potentially hundreds of comments in a single post to find something specific
- Mark comments as ‘In Need Of Reply’ - adds a button, similar to the “Awaiting Moderation” button that shows up on the right hand side of the Comments menu link. The new button tells you how many comments are in need of a reply, and when clicked, takes you to a list of those comments.
- New comment display links, allowing you to edit, reply, quote or mark as replied each comment directly from the comment admin page
- Added AJAX functionality allows you to edit pages and posts directly from the management admin pages
- Adds 4 new widgets allowing you to display recent comments along with gravatars, another to display recent trackbacks, one to display the most active posts based upon comment count, and one to display your more frequent commenters, along with their gravatars if you so choose, as a way of recognizing your more devoted readers. Each widget is tokenized, meaning you control the look and feel.
- WordPress Theme Design
written by Tessa Blakeley Silver and published by Packt Publishing is a recently published, 244-page book detailing just about everything you’d need to know about designing and coding themes for WordPress. It’s current as of version 2.5, and is available in paperback and as a digital download as well.
- No WordPress.com until Lorelle recuperates from surgery.
- Eric Amundson kicks off our inaugural “Ask Matt” segment with the question, “What resources are there about using WordPress as a Content Management System?” Matt directs Eric to a draft on the Codex for more places to look.
- Dave Jackson asks what our “Top 10 Plugins” are. We oblige, although Jonathan and I shared four identical choices (five if you count Jonathan’s waffling between Defensio and Akismet), so here are our combined “Top 16 plugins” (in no particular order):
- Fluency Admin/WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu
- PodPress
- Photo Dropper
- Digital Fingerprint
- Popularity Contest
- Related Posts
- WordPress Database Backup
- WP Ajax Edit Comments
- Defensio
- WP Super Cache
- FeedBurner FeedSmith
- Akismet
- Woopra
- What Would Seth Godin Do?
- Subscribe to Comments
- Share This
- Mark Ghosh’s comments during episode 39 of The WordPress Podcast recorded live at WordCamp Dallas 2008 about Bad Behavior and high server usage prompted a response from the plugin’s author, Michael Hampton.
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