WordCast 51: Big-Wheeled Sedan

We’re pleased to be joined this week by expert guest host Jonathan Bai­ley to dis­cuss actual news! Yes, we’re back to the reg­u­lar rou­tine this week, cov­er­ing every­thing from the brand new Digg bar (it is, con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, not edi­ble) to how often, and to what extent, a blog theme should be changed. Make sure to also lis­ten for all the reg­u­lars. From our picks to the tip of the week, it’s all here this week on WordCast.

• The New Digg Bar is Screw­ing up Stats and SEO
• Copy­Blog­ger Has the Top 8 Ways to Han­dle Com­ment Critics
• How Often Should You Change Your Word­Press Theme? Dai­ly­BlogTips Has Ideas and so do We
• Word­Press MU Has a Cross-Site Script­ing Vul­ner­a­bil­ity but Upgrade to 2.7 and You’re OK
• WordPress.com’s Search is Now Instan­ta­neously Index­ing Your Posts
• Tip of the Week: Lorelle’s sand­box post lets you test every­thing you’ll ever need to style for a Word­Press theme all at once.
• These WordPress’s Media Sys­tem Wire­frames Could be in 2.9 so Take a Look at the Pos­si­ble Future!
• Jonathan’s Pick: Word­Press Ama­zon S3 Plugin
• P.S. Ama­zon S3 is Pretty Neat!
• Kym’s Pick: Word­Press Front-End Edi­tor Plugin
• Dave’s Pick: WP Frame Breaker

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P.S. Jonathan found the Sedan with big wheels.

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