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Charles and company have released a new podcast covering problems with WordPress 2.0.5, a review of Akismet, Bad Behavior 2 and Spam Karma 2, and a brief tutorial on how to customize your login screen. Exceptionally helpful is Mark Jaquith’s review of the spam fighting tools, especially for those not familiar with the basic workings of the most commonly used tools.
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Based on a previously available plugin, Content View/Hide gives you control over how the more tag is used. The updates to the plugin provide for an admin panel that allows for the easy control over the plugin and a simple field to alter how the tag is displayed in the post.
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For those who find a need to organize pages by category, Andy put together a plugin that allows for a single category to be assigned to them. This recently updated plugin allows for either a page specific category or categories that are used with posts as well. Keep in mind, this plugin does not add posts to the page, rather allow for better management of sites that use a lot of pages.
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While on the subject of Mark, and now that 2.0.5 is officially out, I felt it would be more appropriate to mention this plugin now. Many users do not have a need for all the boxes on the write post screen, and would like them gone. Now you can do that, on an individual user basis. The editing is done via your profile page, so if you ever need to turn back on an element, it’s simply done in the admin area. Note that a v.3 is the most current, which now removes the preview and image uploader elements, rather than hide them via CSS, as previous versions did.
You can be sure I’ll be using this plugin on my own blogs, particularly to do away with the image uploader element, as that element does hide like others.
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In case you missed it, WP 2.0.5 was released last week. Though 2.1 is on the horizon, this release covers 50+ minor bug fixes and security issues. Mark Jaquith, who will be maintaining the 2.0 branch , outlines the changes.
Mark has also provided an “unofficial” download
of changed files, changes diff, etc.
Not done there, a small minority of users who upgraded reported a 500 server errors, Mark realized that a patch to 2.1 hadn’t been committed to 2.0.5, and provides a plugin to solve the issue. Thank you Mark for your hard work and dedication to this release.
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WP Community
Charles over at WP Community has released episode 8 of his podcast. Topics covered include how to handle splogs, blogging by email as well as over a dozen and half plugins reviewed. Other topics include a new ad network from Performancing, a business week update and what to look for in WP 2.0.5.
While you’re there, be to check out previous episodes if you’ve not listened before.
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Attention any WP theme designers. A job posting has been listed on the new 37 Signals gig board looking for qualified theme designers to take wire frame mock ups and convert them to WP themes.
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A greatly improved comments template for your blog offered up by Christian. Features include separated trackbacks and pingbacks, author highlighting, and many more improved ways of making your comments less “boring”. Well documented as well. Look for the improved template integrated here at WP Station with an upcoming reboot November 1.
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A new plugin that allows for unique icons for each post. Plugin also allows for resizing of the icon with aspect ratio intact.
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A handy plugin to make your blog content better served on PDA/mobile browsers. As the technology becomes more accessible, more people will be looking to access info from such devices, and blogs will be part of that. If your content is such that you think people will be reading your site on the go, then a plugin of this nature will help your visitors access that information much easier.
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