Episode 33: WordPress 2.3.2 released, WordPress 2.4 missed and changes to the podcast
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Discussed in this long-overdue and extremely lengthy episode are such subjects as:
- Changes coming for the podcast
- WordPress 2.3.2 released and is considered an urgent security release.
- WordPress 2.4 is a missed release, WordPress 2.5 in the works: Westi on WordPress, David Peralty’s Admin Overview and Liz Danzico’s WordCamp session on the admin overhaul (including her slides).
- WordPress Developers Considering Change to Release Schedule
- Automattic Receives $29.5M in Series B Funding
- WordPress wins Crunchie for “Most Likely to Succeed”, Toni Schneider “Best Startup CEO”
- Blog security gains attention: David Airey hacked using a GMail exploit, Blogging Pro wonders how secure WordPress is, Simple Thoughts details ways to harden your WordPress blog from attack, Ryan Boren discusses ways WordPress 2.5 will have a new format for authentication cookies and a new password hashing algorithm, there’s a plugin to secure your admin pages, Donncha O Caoimh details other ways to secure your blog, and Blog Security’s Whitepaper on securing your blog is indispensible.
- Turk Hit Box is offering free custom-designed WordPress themes provided your blog has a Pagerank of 4 or higher, it’s at least 8 months old, your rss subscriber count is more than 50 and you leave the footer link intact.
- Akismet Updated to 2.1.2
- WordCamp Dallas is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 29th and 30th and includes notable bloggers and podcasters such as Matt Mullenweg, Cali Lewis, Lorelle VanFossen, Aaron Brazell, Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss, Jonathan Bailey, John Pozadzides, Chris Smith, Jacob Santos and moi.
- Two new WordPress-related podcasts you might also enjoy listening to are Talking WordPress with Steve Sande and Chuck Joiner and WordPress Weekly with Jeffro
- Lorelle’s WordPress.com news: 2 million blogs!; Avatars in your Dashboard; Enhanced stats; Enhanced feeds liven up your blog
- Plugin: Blog Voyeur 0.2 by Donncha O Caoimh uses the cookie left by WordPress when a person leaves a comment on a blog to track when they come back and what they look at when they do
- Plugin: WordPress Dual Feeds by Stephen Cronin allows you to offer readers both full post and summary feeds for all your blog feeds.
- Plugin: ShareThis updated to 2.1b1, adds features
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