Episode 38: WordPress 2.5 not released… yet!
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Included in this episode:
- WordPress 2.5 wasn’t released last week as we expected, and don’t expect it for several weeks.
- ThemeShaper.com asked 11 prominent WordPress theme designers to predict the future.
- WPThemeKit is a WordPress theming system where you choose from one of several htnk “blanks” representing your preferred layout of overall width, along with the number and position of sidebars.
- WordPress is once again one of the Open Source projects chosen by Google to include in their Summer of Code for 2008.
- Lorelle VanFossen is also jazzed about WordPress 2.5 coming to WordPress.com, details a security vulnerability for WordPress.com blogs was fixed in less than 10 minutes after initial report, Matt Mullenweg’s report that more than 800,000 blogs, or splogs, have been removed from WordPress.com, and the February Wrap-up for WordPress.com has the latest statistics for the free blog hosting service.
- FirstTimer Wordpress Plugin v1.0 by Bobby Handzhiev checks to see if an identifying cookie is located when a viewer views your blog, and if one if not found, displays a message you’ve written specifically for new visitors.
- SEO Friendly Images v1.1 by Vladimir Prelovac goes throough all of the images used on your blog, checks to see if already have ALT and TITLE tags set, and generates valid XHTML tags for them based on options you’ve set.
- MinisterMark verifies the WP Spam Blocker generates dofollow links to their site.
- Corey Thompson points out the answer to last episode’s blogroll question.
- Simon Jones reports back that a new service’s bot was the cause of his blog’s bandwidth problems.
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