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Trackbacks: Still Useful?

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February 2nd, 2008
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Six Apart created the Trackback specification as a way to enable bloggers to communicate between each other via a link or acknowledgement. My question to the reader: in what ways do you use Trackbacks? Do you still find Trackbacks useful? With the growing Trackback spam, how do you keep up with legitimate bloggers?

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 2 / 1

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February 2nd, 2008
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MultiPage Toolkit MultiPage Toolkit allows you manage multi page posts by allow you to add page title to each page and also allows you to display the number of pages in the post on the index page of the post. Looks like a nice addition as it definitely takes care of one problem I have wanted to overcome in WordPress. Release Page | Download Extended Categories A extension to the default category widget that comes built in with WordPress. This plugin allows you to display the categories as a list or dropdown, show the number of posts per category, hide empty categories and more. Release Page | Download UnderConstruction Shows customizable message on posts and pages containing the [uc] tag. The message can be customized in the Options page. Release Page | Download Tag This The plugin allows readers to tag posts and uses core WordPress tag system to store […]

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Instapaper: Easy, Personal Bookmarking

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February 1st, 2008
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Blogging News, Cool Scripts, LinkyLoo

Instapaper: I came across this service via Techeme and was impressed with the ease of use. Although I barely ever have to “read something later”, one could use Instapaper to quickly and easily bookmark sites, blogs or news items for later reading which could then be cleaned up. Signup is incredibly easy and they provide you with a bookmarket to use. Would you use something like Instapaper? I wonder how they would monetize it?

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Prologue Undergoes Updates

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January 31st, 2008
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Blogging News, WordPress

Prologue, the WordPress.com theme that mimics Twitter like functionality has undergone a series of updates. The updates are as follows: The front page now shows a stream of recent updates instead of one update per user Pages now have their own template and look much better Avatars are only shown once for sequential posts by the same author (front page and tag pages) Post titles are no longer empty, they are generated based on the beginning of each post Works out of the box for WordPress.org 2.3.2 Probably the biggest update is the fact that Prologue now works out of the box for WordPress 2.3.2. It didn’t work before because of a function that was used within the author template which wasn’t available in 2.3.2. Because of these updates, Prologue which is now at version 1.2, will have the changes reflected in Subversion (for self hosted WordPress.org blogs) and is […]

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2in1 Security Bulletin

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January 31st, 2008
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WordPress Security

Today, we have a moderately critical SQL Injection Vulnerability that was discovered by HouSSaMix in the “WP-Cal” plugin version 0.x for WordPress. According to the Secunia Advisory: Input passed to the “id” parameter in functions/editevent.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code. Users with a malicious intent can conduct SQL injection attacks which may result in the retrieval of usernames, password hashes, and email addresses for users and administrators. However, the malicious user must have knowledge of the database table prefix. So far, version 0.3 has been confirmed as having this vulnerability with other versions possibly being affected. Secunia states that the solution involves editing the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised. Click here to read the original advisory which provides an example of the exploit as well as the vulnerable […]

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The Life Cycle of a Blog Post

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January 30th, 2008
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Blogging News, Business of Blogging

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You: You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. I could not have described this post (on Wired) better. It is a flash animation that follows a blog post as it makes its way through the Interweb. If you ever wondered how all these disparate peices fit into the blogosphere, this is the food for thought.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 1 / 30

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January 30th, 2008
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WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

One Column Themes Stripped Stripped is a minimalist one column theme with the text made up of red and black color. The theme contains no sidebars and the navigation is at the bottom of the page. Demo | Release Page| Download Two Column Themes Forte Magazine Style Forte is a two column theme which comes built in with lots of features. It comes with ample amount of space to do banner advertisements and tabbed content in the sidebar. The theme is widget ready and comes with a extended sidebar in the footer. Demo | Release Page | Download Three Column Themes  Ansi Y   Ansi Y is a theme which makes use of black, gray, brown and white colors. The theme is widget ready and makes use of two sidebars. The theme looks simple and content area is big enough to allow you addition of medium width images. Demo | […]

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What Is WordCamp?

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January 29th, 2008
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WordPress

WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people. For example, WordCamp Dallas will feature the following speakers Matt Mullenweg on WordPress 2.5 and Beyond 45 Ways To Power Up Your Blog by John Pozadzides How to prevent, detect and stop content theft by Jonathan Bailey Cali Lewis and Neal Campbell C’mon, Let’s Talk! Building influence and interaction with blogging by Liz Strauss WordPress Power Tips by Lorelle Van Fossen SEO For Bloggers by Chris Smith Aaron Brazell A panel of people to discuss the business of blogging: Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss, and Aaron Brazell Testing With WordPress by Jacob Santos WordCamp is a spin off from the popular BarCamp which was a spin off of FooCamp. […]

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List of WordPress Tutorials

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January 29th, 2008
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LinkyLoo, WordPress, WordPress Tips

List of WordPress tutorials: A bunch of WordPress tutorials on various topics in the form of screencasts. Topics include various tasks such as installation on a variety of platforms and tasks inside the WordPress admin.

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