News: David Peralty leaves the podcast/The search for one of more co-hosts begins

David Peralty, citing personal reasons and a general desire to limit his work load, has left his co-host duties both with The WordPress Podcast and the TechCanuck podcast. Aaron Brazell from b5media and technosailor.com fills in as co-host for episode #24, but we’re in need of one or more new co-hosts in order to continue. So, if you’re a WordPress aficionado with a Skype address and would like to be considered, send us an e-mail at the address mentioned in the podcast.

News: WordPress v2.2 released, voice your preferences for v2.3’s feature list

WordPress version 2.2 was released. The main features added or improved are:

1. Native Widgets
2. Atom 1.0 Feeds
3. Atom API Support
4. New Blogger Importer
5. Plug-in Sandboxing
6. New Hooks for Plug-in Authors
7. Comment Feeds
8. Mail Enhancements
9. Under the Hood Optimization

(From Aaron Brazell’s 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2.)

Discussion is beginning to percolate about the features that should be included in the next version, and you can add your opinion to the mix either here in the comments section and/or at the WordPress site.

Plug-in: Mass Post Manager v1.0.1

This plug-in allows you to delete all posts and/or comments in selected category as well as move all of the posts from one category to another.

Plug-in: AntiLeech v1.8

AntiLeech produces a fake set of content especially for splogger bots that includes links back to your site. When they steal this content, it appears online just like normal, except now you’ve turned the tables on them and have provided them with useless content.

Plug-in: Genki YouTube Comments v1.0

Grabs comments from YouTube videos you’ve posted and inserts them into the associated post on your blog.

Feedback, comments and questions:

• We attempt to answer Michael Bello’s question about the distinctions between categories and tags.
• We answer Tom Johnson’s question about whether or not WordPress places a limit on pages.
• Small Potato clarifies why he’d switched from GPL to Creative Commons and back to GPL.
• LobsterMan drove the final nail into the whole sponsored themes debate.
• and Giovanni alerts us to a problem syndication our feeds, which leads to a more general discussion of the future of blogging and feeds.