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Roundup of Spam Fighting Tools [Mashable]

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:58:41 +0000

Mashable.com have provided a great list of tools to help you fight spam with WordPress.

Well worth bookmarking for those times when you need to go beyond Akismet.

WordPress 2.4 Is a No-Go

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:41:42 +0000

Bad news for those of us looking forward to the release of WordPress 2.4 in late January - it’s been canned.

From postings on the WordPress development mailing list it appears that the major changes that were due in the codebase, especially the admin side, are too risky to release publically at the moment, and that the next release will now be 2.5 due in March.

Whilst I’m sure we are all disappointed not to get the new features as early as we would have liked, I’m sure we are all happier having a stable version of the application. It’s good to see common sense prevailing in situations like these.

Shorten Your WordPress URLs says Google

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:31:40 +0000

Business Blog Consulting has posted a snippet of a conversation with Google’s Matt Cutts in which he reveals that the Google algorithm is now taking into account the length and content of URLs as part of its ’spammy’ radar.

Check out this post for further information, including tips on how to configure WordPress to avoid this trap.

Video Preview of the WordPress 2.4 Admin Panel

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:59:33 +0000

Tubetutorial has posted a video preview of the forthcoming WordPress 2.4 Administration Panel.

Well worth watching to get a taste of what is expected to be included in the next major release as this is the first noticeable upgrade to the admin panel for quite some time.

Urgent WordPress upgrade announced

admin — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:36:03 +0000

The WordPress team has announced the release of version 2.3.2, an urgent security upgrade which patches holes that can potentially expose your draft posts.

Get upgrading.

New Xmas Theme for WordPress

admin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:55:24 +0000

Design Disease have released a brilliant festive WordPress theme entitled Christmas Days as a gracious present to all us WordPress bloggers

Thanks, DD!

10 Things About WordPress 2.3 You NTK

admin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:50:57 +0000

TMTBOX MEDIA have published an in-depth analysis of the changes in WordPress 2.3, now that the dust has settled on this significant release.

Highly recommended if your ears are pricked by any of the following topics :

Tags
Update Notifications
Canonical Redirection
Post Workflow Improvements
Pluggable Dashboard
Atomlib
$wpdb->prepare()
Deprecated Functions
Multiple Category Widgets
Pluggable RSS Library

To read more head on over now.

New version of Shylock’s Adense Plugin released

admin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:39:55 +0000

V1.2 of Shylock’s incredibly useful Adsense Plugin for WordPress has been released.

This version adds increased control over the placement of ads, widget support and now XHTML 1.0 compliant.

Brian Turner’s 7 Wordpress plugins for better indexing

admin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:31:24 +0000

Brian Turner has produced a great list and detailed description of 7 wordpress plugins for better indexing

Many thanks to Brian for this list, it has given me several ideas of how to utilise these plugins across my blogs, not just for indexing, but to make the blogs more usable.

Unofficial Wordpress Quickstart Guide by Design Vitality

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:26:00 +0000

Design Vitality have published an excellent guide to getting started with WordPress.

The guide provides links to the following main categories :

Beginning Steps
Pre-Made Themes
Making Your Own Theme
Plugins
Optimization
Integration with other applications

Definitely one to bookmark.