By the way, the first Changeset to appear since the WordPress team began using Trac happened on April 1, 2003 (6 years ago). The changeset involved a new respository initialized by cvs2svn and the author is anonymous.

cvs2svn is a program that can be used to migrate a CVS repository to Subversion (otherwise known as “SVN”) or git. Documentation:

A hearty congratulations goes out to not only the core development team, but to all those who have submitted patches that in turn were committed to the core.

WP-CopyProtect

A simple plugin that will disabled right-click and prevent selection of text on your blog.

Ciao Box

Allows the user to display a Ciao Box in the sidebar.

Autodownload

Autodownload is a WordPress plugin that enables your blog to provide downloadable files either in your posts or pages.

Show authors without posts

Shows the authors page even if the author has no post.

Updated Plugins

Cronjob Control

This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the “Site Admin” area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s).

ProjectManager

This plugin is a data manager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection,to to present portraits (e.g. athletes of a team) or anything you can think of.

Collapsing Archives

This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each year and posts for each month in the archive listing.

phpbb_recent_topics

This plugin grabs your recent phpBB forum topics for you to display in WordPress.

Send2Press

Displays news items from selectable Send2Press RSS feeds, inline, as a widget or in a theme. Multiple feeds allowed. Local caching.

All in One Video Pack

This plugin allows you to add an interactive video player that includes an upload/import tool and a web-based video mixer.

NoFollow Free

NoFollow Free removes the “nofollow” attribute from your WordPress blog’s comments (precisely from the author’s links) and/or from the comments text links and it inserts (if you want) an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NOFOLLOW FREE”.

WP Wall

WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page).

Art Direction

This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page archive per post styles.

Lifestream

Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.

Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat.

Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply deleted the portions that didn’t work. That means my version moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog, but didn’t preserve any of their categories. Drupal’s ridiculous “taxonomy” system just isn’t easy to map onto Wordpress’s much more rational categories and tags, and in any case the hard part of the move was getting the posts and comments over.

DovDox takes the script and makes it so that the content and comments are transfered between a Drupal 5.9 installation into a WordPress 2.6 install but due to the taxonomy system, categories are not migrated. If you choose to use the script provided by DovDox, be aware that it may cause a loss of data so be sure to back up everything before you do anything.

I wanted to put the call out to the community to see if anyone knew of a script or an individual that is consitently producing a migration script to move from Drupal to WordPress. If so, I’ll edit this post and add those resources to the bottom. I’ll also try to place those resources in the WordPress Codex.

Add to Feed

Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post.

Amazon Plugin

Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts.

Related Blog Links

This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages.

Techytube XHTML

This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog.

ZD YouTube FLV Player

Display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player.

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

This plugin adds the JW Image Rotator to the WordPress Media.

Easy AdSenser

Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code into your existing blog posts.

Feed Comments Number

Add an image that displays the number of comments to your feed items.

Updated Plugins

Formbuilder

The FormBuilder plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows the blog or website owner to easily and quickly create forms for display on their sites.

SendFeed

The SendFeed Plugin for WordPress allows you to send your latest post from your RSS feed to an external Mailing List Manager in both text and HTML formats.

AmazonFeed

This plugin will allow you to turn your WordPress website or blog into a money making machine while at the same time offering valuable additional related materials to your visitors. It will automatically search for and display products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topics you write about.

Quiz

Authors can write a new Quiz question and answer for each post, fall back on a default question, or have no question at all. Commenters must correctly answer the question before their comment is submitted.

CaPa Protect

Protects Categories, Pages and Posts for specific users & anonymous visitor.

Side Content

Side Content enables you to create widgets which have different content on different pages.

Easy LaTeX

Easy LaTeX provides a very easy way to display math and equations in your posts.

WP-DONATORS

Wp-Donators offer a smart donation function to auto-leave the sponsor information in a container after payment. Sponsor can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad, the information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud. The more a person donations, the bigger their link will be.

Useful 404’s

Create more useful 404 error pages, including email notifications for bad links.

• Writing a book for a piece of software which has an extremely fast development cycle
• How different versions affect the publishing of the book
• WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition
• Lisa’s thoughts on WordPress 2.7
• Lisa’s explanation on permalinks and slugs
• Lisa’s take on premium themes versus free themes
• much, much, more.

Keith and I really enjoyed our time with Lisa and wish her the best for the second edition of WordPress For Dummies.

Announcements: The two lucky recipients who will each receive a signed copy of WordPess For Dummies 2nd Edition are Chris Thompson and Lenire.

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Journalized is a one, two or three column theme available in six different themes, with threaded and paged comments with an administration interface.

Wasteland

It’s a 5 Column (main content, 2 sidebars and 2 top sections), widget-ready fixed width theme in soothing Creme and Brown colors featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.

Underground

Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme

Weblog Magazine Theme

Widget ready, three columns, fixed width theme with adsense / advert ready areas which are easily edited for ease of use and monetization. Available in 10 colors.

Despite everything that is going on within the world of content publishing, the fact remains that WordPress is still the easiest way to publish content onto the web. For that alone, I think is worthy of being thankful.

If you feel thankful for WordPress or any aspect of the project, join in the tradition of giving thanks by means of commenting. Tell us what it is your thankful for as it relates to WordPress.

WP-Niceforms

Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.

K2 Hook Up

K2 Hook Up exposes the seven hooks in K2 theme to the admin as friendly input boxes, where you place any HTML, CSS, JavaScript or PHP code (including template tags, other WordPress functions, or even code from other plugins) that you like.

Custom Post Template

Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post.

SuperSlider-Show

Animated Gallery slideshow uses Mootools 1.2 javascript replaces WordPress gallery with a slideshow.

Use Google Libraries

A number of the javascript libraries distributed with WordPress are also hosted on Google’s AJAX Libraries API. This plugin allows your WordPress site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress install directly.

Chitika | Premium

This plugin will automate adding Chitika|Premium to your blog posts. Chitika|Premium is an AdSense Alternative/Compatible search targeted ad solution.

AmazonFeed

This plugin enables you to automatically advertise products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topic you are writing about.

Addynamo

Display Addynamo ads before, after or in the middle of a post without modify the theme. This plugin inserts and embeds the code into your website.

Simple Social Bookmarking Plugin

Will add bookmark icon for each post and page to share with popular social bookmarking sites.

Updated Plugins

Webcollage

Displays a collage or quilt of screen shots of the websites that you link or specify in your WordPress blogroll. After installing and activating the plugin, insert the tag “[webcollage]” (without quotes) in any post or page where you’d like to display the collage. Webcollage uses websnapr.com’s screen shot generation service.

FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin

This plugin adds a fourth way to save the database backup files from the WP DB Backup Plugin of Austin Matzko, Scott Merril and other authors. With the standard WP Database Backup plugin you can save the database tables of your weblog a file. This backup file can stored on the server of your weblog, send to an email account or saved (manually) to your local harddisk.

Viper’s Video Quicktags

Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.

JS AntiSpam

Simple antispam plugin without questions on Javascript-solution. Without JS-Solutions give it an textbox.

Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Stumble! for WordPress

Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a “random article” feature, similar to StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru and Wikipedia’s (Mediawiki’s) random article feature.

CompactRSS

This plug-in makes it possible to exclude certain parts of your posts in your feeds.

Sirup is a magazine and blog layout for WordPress 2.5 and above. It has a fixed width, is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, supports Gravatars and Sidebar Widgets. You can customize the appearance of your site with an options page.

Quoting You!

A light two column design with sleek and clean lines and cool colors.

Olivia

Two column, gravatar and widget ready theme with seven different styles.

 Equilibrium

Clean and simple magazine styled widget ready theme.

CognoBlue

Three column, widget ready, with right and left sidebar SEO theme optimized for Google Adsense.

Floral Prints

A light three column design with an elegant topper with floral prints and cute little butterfly subjects.

Rainy Days

A rainy two column design full of the cool wet air of a fresh thunderstorm.

Noupe has listed 11 new “Most Wanted” hacks for WordPress in a nice illustrated list. The new hacks include protecting your pictures from hotlinking and Custom Google Search for WordPress.

WPMU has received 37 nominations for their WordPress MU awards for 2008 and are looking for people to help choose the winners. View the nominations and vote for them.

Michael Kubler has written up a tutorial to make WordPress captioned images work as expected on your WordPress theme. Captioned images were introduced in WordPress 2.6 (I believe). This blog had the same problem till we managed to wrangle the extra CSS code for it to work.

Download Squad is linking to a Firefox add-on that allows a blogger to post screenshots/screengrabs directly to a WordPress blog. This can be very useful if you do a lot of reviews and such where you post screengrabs. Be wary of bugs.

Strip

Strip! is a WordPress plugin that allows you hide links from a given comment. Unlike other plugins that do the same purpose, you can restore the links anytime you want.

JournalPress

A cross-poster supporting multiple LiveJournal Server journals.

Speed Test

This widget makes it possible that any visitor of your blog can test his bandwidth speed. The widget ist hosted on Amazon S3 storage and checks the speed from the nearest server worldwide. (Page in German)

Quizzin

Quizzin lets you add quizzes to your blog. This plugin is designed to be as easy to use as possible. Quizzes, questions and answers can be added from the admin side. This will appear in your post if you add a small HTML snippet in your post.

My Tag Cloud

My tag cloud provides you with a widget that actually gives you the ability to list the tags of your posts in a diiferent way than a tag cloud.

Exhibit to WP Gallery

Convert your ancient Exhibit 1.1b galleries to modern WordPress attachments / galleries

No Follow Tags In Posts [REMOVED DUE TO SPONSORED LINKS]

No Follow Tags In Posts Links searches for links to large websites that use the ‘nofollow’ tags for external links, and puts the same tag on your links to those sites.

Gravatar Shortcode

This is a simple plugin that just lets you use a shortcode in your WordPress Pages or Posts to quickly and easily insert a Gravatar.

Delete-Revision

Delete revision post from Database.

Krusty MSIE Body Classes

Once activated this plugin will use the ‘body_class’ filter to add Internet Explorer browser classes to the body tag of the sites front end, (public), pages. The reason this is needed is because Internet Explorer has a long history of incorrectly rendering css styles.

Updated Plugins

Hide Admin Icons

Hide Admin Icons hides the admin icons when the menu bar is expanded. The icons remain visible when the menu is in its collapsed state.

Featuring CountComments

Counts the number of comments by user IDs or author names (display name).

GD Star Rating

Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating system for pages and/or posts in your blog. Also includes the widget for displaying votes and rating statistics for all posts and pages with votes.

ZdMultilang

ZdMultilang is a Multilingual plugin for WordPress allowing you to blog in more than one language. You can define multiple languages and translate posts/tags/categories using the interface that will be added to your blog’s administration panel.

Albumize

By organizing your galleries as multiple child pages of one parent page, you can use this plugin to see a preview thumbnail and description of each gallery.

WP Widget Cache

Cache the output of your blog widgets. Usually it will significantly reduce the SQL queries to your database and speed up your site.

Secure WordPress

Secure your WordPress Installation with small functions.

ProjectManager

This plugin can be used to manage any number of projects with recurrent datasets (e.g. portrait system, dvd collection)

This Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the states. On Friday, I want to give my thanks to those of you who continue to show your support while telling your friends about the show and downloading it on a regular basis. On Friday, we will be giving away two signed copies of WordPress For Dummies 2nd Edition. Lisa will sign the copies and ship them once the new edition has been published. So how will we give these away?

One book will be given away to a lucky caller while the other copy will be given away to a lucky recipient in the chat room. So be sure to join us live this Friday, for a fun filled discussion related to the book as well as WordPress. (Special thanks to Lisa for donating the two signed copies.)

Quartz

Show random quotes/tips/links/pictures/something to visitors. These quotes can be added from the admin side. You can add the quotes one by one - or you can bulk import the stuff from a text file.

YouVersion

This plugin takes marked-up scripture references and pulls the verses from YouVersion.

CMS Navigation

Out-of-the-box support for full CMS navigation in your WordPress site including drop down menus, breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation.

Wordpress Politically Correct

Turns any blog into a haven of safe politically correct content.

Assign Missing Categories

Assigns the default category to all posts that have no category after you’ve converted your categories to tags.

Artists ilike

Displays the artists you have “ilike’d” from your ilike.com profile on your blog.

Updated Plugins

zeList

zeList is a plugin to run a directory on a WordPress power website.

Get Flickr Thumbnails

Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can get thumbnails for photos on your site that from flickr.com

WordPress Link Directory

WordPress Link Directory is a link directory plugin for WordPress which allows you to keep a directory of links and allow other webmasters to add their link to your site.

Thumbnail For Excerpts

Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts.

Snazzy Archives

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts.

Live Blogroll

Shows a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll in a popup box, using Ajax.

AmazonSimpleAdmin

Lets you easily embed Amazon products into your posts by use of [asa]ASIN[/asa] tags. Supports the use of templates.

Collapsing Categories

This plugin uses JavaScript to dynamically expand or collapsible the set of posts for each category.

Smart YouTube

Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed.

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Stories Discussed:

WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 Released

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Adding A Twitter ID Field To Comments

Listing Pages The 2.7 Way

10 Best WordPress Web Hosts Compared

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Plugin Of The Week:

Jeff - WPTuner – WP Tuner for WordPress is a powerful and easy way to answer hard questions about why your blog is slow or cranky. What’s causing the slowdown? Is it a plugin? Is it your host? This plugin will help you find out. Used with a bit of common sense, this powerful plugin helps blog administrators as well as software developers improve their WordPress blog performance - One caveat with this particular plugin is that it’s not for the faint of heart. While I was able to understand what the plugin was showing me, it may not be that obvious to you. Be sure to read the plugins readme file and the associated help documents before using it.

Keith - Comment Approval Notification - This WordPress plugin will send an email to comment authors once their held-for-moderation comment is approved.

The WolfHound Segment:

Bill needs some help working with WordPress. He came away from WordCamp Dallas excited to use the software but has run into a few roadblocks and thus, needs our help. So to help Bill out, we have created the WolfHound segment because we know that not everything we cover on the show is addressed to a specific audience. I’ve been told numerous times by new comers who listen to the show that the content flies over their head. If this sounds familiar, this segment is for you.

The Short History Of The Blog And Near Term Goals:
Here is a quick history of Bills blog. - Installed a late 1.x version and have been updating along the way and experimenting with themes. Just recently I finally installed Akismet after I starting get hit with spam. Being that I still considered it to be “in work” I never really let the world know it was out there. I guess you could say that I have two sets of goals. One being near term and the other long term.

First, the near term goals.

1) Get my logo to work on my chosen theme (Chameleon 1.0 by Ainslie Johnson)
2) Only have most recent articles (2 max) appear on front page
3) Settle on what should be considered “must-have” plug-ins

Listen to the show to hear our responses. If you disagree and feel you can help Bill out better than we did, leave a comment with your tips and suggestions.

Announcements: Lisa Sabin Wilson, Author of the WordPress For Dummies book is scheduled to appear on November 28th.

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Hybrid is a WordPress theme framework that has been actively developed on WordPress 2.7 but is compatible down to 2.5. It removes the need to use SEO plugins. It was developed with child themes in mind, so you’ll never have to lose your customizations with a theme update. The theme comes packaged with 13 page templates and supports 15+ plugins out of the box. You can run anything from a small family blog to a complex site with thousands of visitors.

Google Chrome for WordPress

Two column, fixed width, widget ready that looks just like Google Chrome.

Loans

Two / Three column, SEO theme based on CSS framework “Blueprint”

Weblog Magazine

Three column, fixed width, red, white and blue, widget ready theme.

Blibahblubah

This plugin allows the blog owner to customize the tag cloud so that any reader mousing over the tag cloud will see the words in the tag cloud flicker with a customizable effect. This is just a fancy bell and whistle to add to your blog.

Wordpress Popular Posts

Adds a widget to show the most popular posts in your WordPress blog.

Comments Count Filter

Makes the comments from post author not to be counted. The post author must login before giving a comment.

Surveys

Add surveys to you blog. You can let the visitors take surveys and see the result from the admin side.

Pollin

Create and add polls to your blog. It can be shown to your visitors who will be able to vote in the poll.

wpSLEEP

Create posts in advance have them automatically publish when you’d like. You can then set when different parts of a post are viewable.

.html on PAGES

Appends .html to the URL of PAGES when using permalinks

Comment Move

Adds the ability to move comments between posts / pages to the comment edit page.

Peter’s Blog URL Shortcodes

Use shortcodes for blog URLs and post URLs, so that your posts always have the correct internal links.

Updated Plugins

Countdown Timer

This plugin allows you to setup a series of dates to countdown to in terms of years, days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds.

WordPress Exploit Scanner

Search the files and database of your WordPress install for malicious code or spammy links left by a hacker.

SmoothGallery

Embed JonDesign’s SmoothGallery into your posts and pages.

WP Tuner

Easily, powerfully, discover why your blog or plugin is slow or cranky. Comprehensive time and database access analyzer.

MobilePress

MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Returns a list of the related entries based on a unique algorithm using titles, post bodies, tags, and categories.

Clean Press is a 2 column WordPress theme that’s designed to focus on the content, rather than the design, and it’s the theme that powers this site.

iQ2

iQ2 is a fixed width, widget ready, photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin.

Night Light

Fixed width, two column, widget ready theme with a left sidebar

Carrington

Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme

I asked the WP-Testers mailing list to see if I could get a word from either Ryan or Matt to tell me if 2.7 would remain or if it would be bumped up to 3.0.  Jane Wells chimed in saying that Matt doesn’t want to skip version numbers anymore, and that there will be ten increments between integers, so 2.9 > 3.0, not 2.9 > 2.10. Yes, 2.7 is a major change, but the numbers are based on timing, not volume or significance of change.

So there you have it. WordPress 2.7 will be, WordPress 2.7. 2.8 will arrive then 2.9 then 3.0 etc. The feature set has no context when giving it a version number label.

While were on the topic of version numbers, it’s important to note that typically, versions such as 2.7, 2.8 are major releases that usually contain new features or UI improvements. The incremental releases e.g. 2.7.1, 2.7.2 usually contain bug fixes as well as security patches. One last thing to note regarding version numbers. Each major release of WordPress is named after jazz musicians the team admires.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion regarding WordPress versioning.

WP-Honeypot

Add Project HoneyPot traps to your blog to help catch these spammers and comment spammers.

Eventr

Use your blog as an event management tool. You can create an event - the plugin will let people sign up for the event - it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done, you can deactivate the event and no more sign ups will be allowed.

Shared Items Post

Shared Items Post is a WordPress plugin that automagically creates a blog post from your Google Reader Shared Items feed. You can schedule the post to go out daily, weekly, or monthly and even set the time of day.

Author Avatars

This plugin provides a widget which allows you to show avatars of blog users.

Resize At Upload

The plugin affects the uploaded image while it is uploaded. Straight after it is uploaded, it will be resized physically to the given width. There is no original image or backup left.

mmyYouTubeHQ

This plugin allows you to insert high quality and YouTube videos and also video in normal quality.

Autofields

AutoFields will auto fill the Excerpt and add an Image custom field based on the data you entered into the contents editor.

Bayesian top title learner

Display links to your most ‘interesting’ posts, where interestingness is determined automatically by a Bayesian learning algorithm.

Embed Iframe

Allows the insertion of code to display an external webpage within an iframe.

Twitter Status

Get the current Twitter message for your blog authors.

Updated Plugins

GoCodes

GoCodes lets you create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your WordPress Admin.

AllWebMenus WordPress Menu

The AllWebMenus WordPress Menu add-in & plugin combination is designed to retrieve information from your blog (such as posts, pages, etc.) and import it into the AllWebMenus application to create stylish menus based on the structure of your blog.

Email Users

A plugin for WordPress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users.

Post Templates

A plugin that allows you to create and use templates in order to facilitate writing of similar posts/pages.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Add Post Footer

Add Post Footer automatically add any custom paragraph, html code, ad code, Technorati tags and/or related links list to the end of every posts.

Last Viewed Posts

This plugin displays the posts (and pages - if you want) that have been recently viewed by the visitor (single view).