Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Kym, Lorelle and Jon join forces this week to bring you a star-studded pod­cast all about Word­Press 2.9 and every­thing Word­Press related and beyond. Geo­t­ag­ging, easy embed­ding, Word­Press secu­rity tips, sneak peaks into future Word­Press devel­op­ment and irrever­ant ban­ter are all included — free of charge — in this week’s WordCast.

• Word­Press 2.9-beta-1 is avail­able. You can down­load it and upgrade man­u­ally, or use the Word­Press Beta Tester Plu­gin to add one-click install of the lat­est cut­ting edge ver­sion of WordPress.
• Alex of Viper007bond has been work­ing on the new easy embeds for Word­Press 2.9 and offers some tips to help you use them more effi­ciently, speed­ing up your blog­ging with WordPress.
• Word­Press 2.8.6 is a secu­rity release and is espe­cially rec­om­mended for those using mul­ti­ple authors on their blog. It fixes an XSS vul­ner­a­bil­ity in the Press This fea­ture and an issue with upload­ing file names in cer­tain Apache con­fig­u­ra­tions using WordPress.
• Every­thing you need to know about Word­Press 2.9’s post image fea­ture by Justin Tadlock.
• Word­Press Theme must have sup­port for post images, and the post image fea­ture will be on the Edit Post/Page panel with a vari­ety of options for includ­ing and dis­play­ing the post image in Word­Press 2.9.
• Otto of OttoDe­struct offers a Word­Press Set­tings API Tuto­r­ial based upon the Word­Press Set­tings API to help users under­stand bet­ter how the API works, with some great tips, too.
• Don­n­cha announced he is now work­ing on, and look­ing for vol­un­teers, to help with WP Super Cache doc­u­men­ta­tion.
• WordPress.com will be includ­ing geo­t­ags for blog posts, soon adding func­tion­al­ity sim­i­lar to the amaz­ing work done by M Realty with Gar­ron Sel­l­iken with their soon-to-be released plu­gin fea­tured on The Octo­pus and Port­land Octo­pus. The Plu­gin pro­vides a unique way of map­ping your con­tent on Google Maps by cat­e­gories and tags, giv­ing vis­i­tors another way of find­ing your con­tent via its loca­tion. For more infor­ma­tion on what WordPress.com is doing, see their geo­t­ag­ging sup­port page.
• Word­Press Tip of the Week: How to Style Edi­tor (or Any Role) Com­ments in Word­Press by Plan­e­tOzh show­cases how to high­light com­ments on a Word­Press blog with mul­ti­ple authors, explor­ing some of the new and old fea­tures of Word­Press com­ment and mul­ti­ple authors.
• Lorelle’s Pick: Word­Press Beta Tester Plu­gin, which, thanks to Naoko McCracken, is now avail­able in your own lan­guage.
• Jonathan’s Pick: Word­Press Setup Wid­get Con­trol adds the abil­ity to use con­di­tional tags eas­ily to deter­mine which side­bar wid­gets appear in a vari­ety of pageviews, giv­ing you cus­tom con­trol over Widgets.
• Kym’s Pick: Tweet­meme adds a re-tweet badge to your Word­Press blog.