http://wordlog.com WordPress news and updates from around the web. Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:13:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So WordPress 2.3 is out, and the release announcement is exciting to read. First off, in 2.3, WordPress gives us real Tags. Tags are not categories. I was really disappointed when WordPress.com started confusing categories for tags, and wrote about why Tags are not Categories. WordPress has finally come clean, and ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/09/26/whats-right-with-wordpress-23/ BuiltWith.com is a service that tells you what runs a site, the statistics packages used, the blogging software used in case the site is a blog, whether the site uses RSS, Javascript, the works. I found BuiltWith via Mashable, one of my occasional reads. Interestingly, BuiltWith.com also provides the percentage ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/08/14/figure-out-what-runs-a-site/ Movable Type is going open source. Yup. MovableType 4 Beta has been announced and the plans are to make it a fully GPL-ed, open source product. The announcement says: ...we wanted to explain why we’ve made this massive investment in Movable Type and its community. The truth is, Movable Type is ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/06/06/movabletype-3-years-too-late/ There are at least two people in the world who definitely will appreciate the plugins I mention in this post, and that, I think is reason enough to write here. Prior to WordPress 2.1 here was a neat little "Preview" link to the Top Right of the Write Post form. ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/23/plugin-to-restore-preview-post-in-write-post-form/ I had written in the post describing 2.2's arrival that there was no mention, and it wasn't clear from the WordPress bug tracker whether 2.2 included any security updates. The recently married Mark has left us a comment saying WordPress 2.2 Getz includes some security fixes. As with all ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/17/wordpress-22-getz-security-upgrade/ WordPress 2.2 codenamed "Getz" has been released. Read the official announcement for details. This is all part of the new experiment to release often, and release regularly. Finally Matt's 2005 resolution seems to be kicking in :) Widgets in the core, that annoying bug where marking comments as spam in the admin ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/16/go-get-getz-wordpress-22-arrives/ I happened upon a curious trick to find out all your pages listed as "supplemental results" in google, and some other associated supplemental result tricks. A lot of you might already know these tricks, but I think reading the rest of this article might get you thinking about these supplemental ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/14/supplemental-results-and-wordpress/ I badly wanted to display the following html code in a blog post that I am drafting: "<link rel='archives' title='May 2007' href='http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/' />" I tried putting the raw line of html between "code" tags and then even "pre" tags, but it just wouldn't show up. Turns out you need to encode ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/13/displaying-html-source-code-in-your-blog-posts/ I sure can't be the first to notice this. If you go to a feed url, say http://wordlog.com/feed/ and then click on the Google Reader Subscribe Bookmraklet, the poor thing can't find the feed! What do you mean you can't find it? You're at it! I am talking about the authentic Google "Subscribe ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/11/cant-find-my-glasses-but-they-are-on-your-nose/ WPZipper is one of those websites which I have thought of doing myself but never really got around to... Alright, well there is very little we all haven't thought of and gone, "that would be so nifty!". What WPZipper does is pull your blog's zipper to close shut. Take 2: It ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/09/download-wordpress-and-favorite-plugins-in-one-fell-swoop/ A blog statistics plugin has been announced at wordpress.com that allows you to have wordpress.com style stats on your own, self-hosted WordPress blog. Before we go any further, he's a glance at the simple, efficient stats that await you: The Automattic stats plugin available at wordpress.org is real easy to ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/06/wordpresscom-stats-plugin-for-wordpress-blogs/ Please join me in wishing Mark and Sarah a happy married life. Mark has been a strong pillar of the WordPress community, with his Covered Web Services being the least of the ways he's involved in the WordPress world. Here's wishing them joy and happiness, and a happy married life. http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/05/congratulations-mark/ First off - sorry for the really, really old posts from this blog that are all over the WordPress Planet. I (finally) upgraded this blog to the latest and greatest WordPress from version 1.5.x-beta. Yeah, you heard me right. So here's a quick recap for all interested. I am carthik, and ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2007/05/02/back-in-action/ Richard Stellingwerf, author of the ClearLooks GTK+ 2.x Theme Engine is using WordPress to power his blog. Here's what he had to say about the installation: Well I decided it was time for a proper website. Since it would be mostly a weblog, I decided to try this thing called ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2005/09/08/stellingwerf-on-wordpress/ Webloog.com has an interesting name, if nothing else, to it's credit. Oh, and it is a service that provides users with a free hosted WordPress (WP-MU) blog. So many hosted services now - you have no excuse not to try WordPress out, if you haven't already ;) http://wordlog.com/archives/2005/09/06/yet-another-wp-mu-site/ The University of Florida News site is powered by WordPress now. There's also a podcast of the news items. Via: hyku. Update: the University of Paris and Saint-Denis also has a WordPress blog powering the Department of Sociology news page. Thanks Baptiste. http://wordlog.com/archives/2005/08/26/university-of-florida-news-powered-by-wordpress/ Yes, the Matt in question is our good old photomatt. The title shocked me. Matt seems pretty excited about his new stuff. http://wordlog.com/archives/2005/08/25/frontal-view-of-matts-stuff/ There was time when I knew most of the active WordPress blogs out there, by url. Then there was a time, not so long ago, when searching for WordPress in Google News would yield nothing, though I expected it to show up something, when I thought WordPress had "matured". The system ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2005/08/22/in-the-news-indeed/ So WordPress now has a reputation of being "User Friendly". Cool. http://wordlog.com/archives/2005/08/22/user-friendly-reputation/ WordPress.com is a new venture aimed at bringing blogging to the millions. For starters, it will grow in a very linear fashion, since each invitee (yes, you need an invite) can only invite one other person. Powered by WordPress Mu, and much like Blogsome, WordPress.com promises to be interesting. May ... http://wordlog.com/archives/2005/08/22/state-of-wordpresscom/