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Episode 50 of The WordPress Podcast is made possible by Mozy- the world’s most popular backup service, proving simple, automatic and secure backups for your important files, and GoDaddy - world’s largest domain name registrar and provider of shared, dedicated and virtual dedicated hosting plans.

Included in this episode:

• Frederick Ding asks about saving changes he’s made to plugins while updating.
• WordPress 2.7.1 released
• WordPress.tv launched
• Ed Morita of Hawaii actually tattooed the official WordPress logo permanently on his right-forearm.
• WP Greet Box shows a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed.
• Post Templates saves frequently used posts and their formatting as templates to reduce retyping or cut and paste.

 

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One of our former co-hosts, David Peralty, joins us as a special guest for this episode as we discuss:

• WordPress 2.7 was released
• Microsoft enters the Open Source blogware world with Oxite
• New Media Expo merges with Blog World Expo
• WordPress Theme Repository purged of hundreds of themes
• Six Apart shuts down Pownce
• Dates announced for WordCamp San Francisco 2009, WordCamp Chicago 2009, WordCamp Dallas 2009 and WordCamp Columbus 2009
• WordPress.com passes the 5 million blog mark
• Media Uploader Overview
• Learning to love comment moderation
• The Many Ways to Configure Your New Dashboard
• WordPress.com Goes Gravatar Crazy
• 43 Degrees, but it’s snowing

 

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In this episode:

• We’re joined by Mark Jaquith, WordPress Ninja at b5media and core developer.
• We discuss the release of WordPress 2.6.5, which fixes for a very obscure security bug and three more bugs.
• We warn of a bogus WordPress 2.6.4 version out there.
• We congratulate Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert, winners of the Project Icon contest.
• We weigh in on the controversy surrounding WordPress Direct, a service that, although not affiliated with the official WordPress project, nonetheless uses WordPress to provide blogs along with content from subjects of the owner’s choice (Splogging?).
• Mark walks us through several new features offered by WordPress 2.7, which is currently in Beta and soon to advance to release candidate stage.
• A reminder to let us know how we’re doing by taking a quick survey.

 

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• Charles and Jonathan discuss the release of WordPress 2.7 Beta 3.
• Charles interviews Anthony Cole and Sam Bauers covering WordCamp Australia, bbPress 1.0 and WordPress 2.7.
• We’ve learned there are plans underway for WordCamp New Orleans.
• Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress reports that WordPress.com bloggers are being selectively tested with some of the new features in WordPress 2.7 due to release the end of November. Their input is important to the success of the next version. Some WordPress 2.7 features are already being used by WordPress.com bloggers.
• Matt Mullenweg reports that the full version of the new WordPress 2.7 interface will probably hit WordPress.com within one to two weeks after the release, though some features may be incorporated before the full version release.
• Other WordPress.com news includes: How to Adjust Your WordPress Blog’s Clock for Daylight Savings and WordPress.com US Election Poll for their own version of the national election.
• Be sure and let us know how you feel about the podcast by taking our brief survey,

 

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• WordPress 2.7 is set for release November 10th.
• Automattic acquires PollDaddy, polls integrated into WordPress.com blogs.
• The WordPress Podcast was mentioned favorably in both Podcasting for Dummies (2nd edition) and Practical Web Design magazine.
• Please take a few moments to take our new survey and help shape the direction of the podcast going forward.
• Take a sneak peek at our new blog design.
• The Amazon S3 Plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress-powered blog.
• MobilePress will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices/mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.
• We attempt to answer Joel Mark Witt’s question, “How the heck do I turn off commenting for my entire WordPress blog past and future posts?” We, in turn, ask our listeners if there’s an easier way than a MySQL query to accomplish this.
• There are only a few WordCamps left before the end of the year: WordCamp Charlotte (not mentioned in the audio), WordCamp Israel, WordCamp Ed DC and WordCamp Australia.