Charles did it! After a little more than a week, he released a new episode, so he’s off to a great start with his weekly scheduled release of the WordPress podcast. As WordPress news heats up this year, it will be great to see a quick and consistent release schedule.
Some of the show notes include:
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Itching for a chance to play with WordPress 2.5 but don’t want to deal with installing it yourself? Chris Johnston has put up a great demo install for people to mess around with. It gives you the latest version of WordPress to enjoy.
Many of the administration panel design elements are quickly coming together, which [...]

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Last year was really my first year of attending events related to blogging, but thankfully, I get to do it again this year, and one of the conferences I am going to is Northern Voice, a two day event being held in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada that starts off with a Barcamp-like day called Moosecamp, [...]

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Over on the increasingly popular WordPress.com, there is a new post up letting us know of a feature that was listed as “meant to fully support that a long time ago”.
Summarized stats give you a detailed look at referrers, search terms, and clicks.

Many people find the new results to be longer and more enjoyable. Your [...]

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After nearly a two month hiatus, Charles has put out another WordPress Podcast for everyone to listen to and it’s a long one at nearly 80 minutes long. If you have a crazy long commute, you will definitely be happy with the latest episode.
They cover all sorts of things, having recorded the show only a [...]

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So, another security upgrade is out for WordPress. This one is fairly urgent, as it allows other members of your blog to “hijack” posts not written by them.
From the WordPress development blog:
WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any [...]

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So the WordPress team has released a super theme called Prologue. The basic idea is to create a Twitter-like system for teams of bloggers. I, personally, can’t think of many uses for Prologue, and I know it won’t replace Twitter any time soon, but the uses I can come up with are very interesting.
Twitter shouldn’t [...]

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Tonight, I was a guest on the WordPress Weekly Podcast which is hosted by Jeffro from Jeffro2pt0 and Weblog Tools Collection. It was a lot of fun to join the festivities. I had intended to listen in, but Jeffro had me join in with his other great panelists.
It was a lot of fun. I [...]

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With Automattic’s recent funding, the Houston Chronicle’s TechBlog was able to get some details about Matt Mullenweg’s plans. One of the more interesting things noted in the article was TalkPress, based on the current bbPress forum system, TalkPress is supposed to realize Matt’s dream of good forum software.
From the article:
Mullenweg says he’ll use the new [...]

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So news has broken about Automattic getting $29.5 million in their “series B” round of funding from a group including the New York Times.
Everyone has been asking me how I feel about this influx of cash into Automattic, and my response has been simply to smile.
With WordPress.com doing very well, and growing by leaps and [...]

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Matt Mullenweg recently posted on the WordPress.com blog about how Automattic does a fair bit of their work behind the scenes, on infrastructure and other improvements, and he has proved that today with an upload storage space on WordPress.com accounts increasing from 50 megabytes to 3 gigabytes, or an increase of sixty-fold.
From the post:
Today, one [...]

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They might not be exactly like you remember them, but statistics relating to your RSS feed views have returned.
From the WordPress.com blog:
You may remember Feed Stats: the beloved feature that we retired last Spring. Well, Donncha came up with something even cooler: a way to track syndicated views on each post.
By “syndicated views” we mean [...]

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A friend of mine, Mark from 45n5.com, just recently posted a video about WordPress, letting the world know that he thinks it sucks.

Of course, I couldn’t leave it alone and so I made my own video response to his badly sung song.

I mention how it is not WordPress that sucks, but instead WordPress users that [...]

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It looks like Automattic, and thus WordPress, really want to win the Crunchies.
Not only has Matt made a post on the WordPress.com blog about it, he has also added a vote graphic to the WordPress.org website.
There’s lots of talk of voting going on right now in America, but we’re here to talk about the best [...]

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So it looks like WordPress 2.4, which was originally due out January 24th is being bumped and considered a missed release. The WordPress team has done this to give them more time to get things right, rather than being half done and putting out a less than amazing version. This makes sense to me as [...]

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So Jeff of Jeffro2pt0 is going to be starting his own WordPress related podcast via TalkShoe starting this Friday. The show will be live, include some interesting guest co-hosts and I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
Here are some details from the post on his blog:
The first episode of WordPress weekly will cover [...]

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Over on Tubetorial.com, I have put up a quick video walkthrough of what the new WordPress 2.4 Administration Panel looks like using the WordPress nightlies of January 1st. They are working hard to implement the new design, and while not complete yet, it was fun to give it a look and see some of what [...]

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If you love the WordPress logo, and want to sport it everywhere you go, they now have hoodies. Winter where I am in Canada, hasn’t gotten all that cold yet, but a nice hooded sweatshirt would be perfect for the current temperatures outside.
They recently put up a post on the WordPress.com about the new [...]

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A very urgent and important security release has been put out by the WordPress team. It will hopefully, and likely be the last update until WordPress 2.4.
From the WordPress blog:

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages [...]

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There has been some interesting updates on WordPress 2.4 this past week, as listed in the weekly updates via Westi on WordPress.
The latest things to catch my eye include:

New get_search_feed_link() and get_search_comments_feed_link() template tags
Addition of a password strength meter to the user profile page
Addition of pages to the things searched
Saving of tags when auto-saving

Another thing [...]

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