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WordPress News for 5/18/09

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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has been released. For all those of you that are adventurous, this is your cue. Codex lists all the changes in 2.8 that have been implemented before the feature freeze. A “Get ready for WordCamp San Francisco 2009” post from Lloyd. I almost completely forgot about the WordPress’ Sixth Anniversary celebrations. 572 attendees as of this post! WordCamp Columbus was great with some spirited feedback! Looking forward to WordCamp Chicago.

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At WordCamp Columbus

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May 16th, 2009
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I am going to be at WordCamp Columbus today. If you are going to be attending the event, be sure to say hi. The list of speakers is quite attractive. Jeff and I were discussing WordCamp Columbus, planning out the event and scoping out presentations that we would listen to and as usual, it was quite overwhelming. I am looking forward to meeting up with old friends and making some new ones while I am there. I like to make my own mini conference in the halls, so if you see a big Indian guy huddled over with a bunch of others people discussing WordPress, you will know that you have run into me. 🙂 I am looking for a few others folks to hang out with and have dinner at the end of the event. So if you are interested, please let me know. See you there!

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Weblog Tools Collection on the Kindle

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May 15th, 2009
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Weblog Tools Collection is now available for subscription on the Kindle. There is a 14 day free trial if you would like to just try it out. So if you are a Kindle owner and a WLTC fan, please subscribe and let us know what you think. While I wish we could offer it for free, the charge is $1.99 (we get 30% of this amount). If you want to publish your blog on Kindle, you can do it too! Be sure to let us know what you think of the experience if you choose to publish your blog on the Kindle. The Kindle forums are a little sparse at this time and the whole publishing page/venue is in beta so you might have some trouble. It was a breeze for us. Thanks to BloggingPro for the idea.

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Guess how many Plugins we have active?

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May 13th, 2009
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The first person to correctly guess the number of active plugins and the number of deactivated plugins on this blog will win a Flickr Pro membership for a year from us. We have more deactivated plugins than activated ones and the numbers aren’t astronomical. Thanks to babs for the idea. Authors/contributors on this blog are ineligible in this guessing game. 🙂 While we are at it, how many plugins do you have activated and how many are deactivated? Do you have any that you activate once in a while when the mood strikes? Which number is higher?

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I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!

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May 10th, 2009
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I sincerely apologize for having turned our RSS feed into summaries. I understand it is annoying and creates an unnecessary step for those who read our content through the news feed. But rarely a day goes by when we do not have five to ten new trackbacks from blogs that are copying our content. I end up adding them to our blacklist and then sending a notice to the infringer. It gets even more annoying when the infringing blog does not have a contact page or I get a reply back stating that they did not know our content was not meant to be copied. I am not against some use of our content but I like to be asked and like proper attribution be provided for displayed content. I understand that duplicate content is bad for SEO but I believe that it is a give and take. Our content […]

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How can I participate in WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?

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Here are the simple steps: Register on the Plugin Competition Blog, wait to be given author permissions (within 24 hours) Make sure you check all the Plugin Competition Rules and adhere to them in order to be eligible Introduce your plugin(s) or your plans for writing plugins on the Plugin Competition blog Once your plugin is ready, publish it on the blog and make it available for download via WordPress Extend Provide initial support for the plugins through the Competition blog, your own blog or other place of publication and through WordPress Support and Extend. The last step, but the most important step, is to submit the final code for your plugin to us via email. We do not publish this email or the instructions on what to put in the email till the final few weeks of the competition. Check back with us or on the Plugin Competition blog […]

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WordPress Links for 5/6/09

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40 WordPress Optimisation tips – Yoast – Tweaking Websites.: Joost De valk has the slides for his talk on 40 WordPress optimization tips up for everyone. This is from his presentation at A4UExpo in Europe. If you do not follow Joost or use his plugins, you might be missing out. We have recently started using his Tweetbacks plugin on this blog (with some minor tweaks for load). To test it out, just Twitter this post and you will see it appear as a comment. The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack.: The dotMobi WordPress Mobile pack is a set of plugins to make your WordPress blog easier to use on mobile devices. This pack includes the following: Mobile switcher to detect mobile visitors and provide an appropriate experience Base mobile theme for quick-and-easy XHTML-MP compliance Extended mobile themes so you can unleash your mobile creativity Transcoding and device adaptation to optimise the […]

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WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Started!

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The WordPress Plugin Compeition 2009 was underway on the 1st of May. This precludes the fact that any plugins developed or released after the 1st of May (but before the 31st of July, inclusive) can be entered into the compeition. There has been a lot of interest in the competition but no entries on the Plugin Competition Blog yet. If you are interested in posting on the blog but do not have a registration, please register there and we will give you the proper permissions. Please use this forum topic on the WLTC Community to ask for or request ideas for plugin development as part of the competition. As for the prizes, over $2300 have been pledged towards prizes for the competition this year, which is awesome. We are looking for more corporate and personal sponsors for the comeptition to make the prize purse as attractive as possible. If you […]

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BuddyPress, bbPress Integration Plugin Bug

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Various tutorials on installing BuddyPress correctly and integrating bbPress with BuddyPress, make mention of a plugin called “WPMU Enable bbPress Cabpabilities” written by Michael Eagan. It simply adds a type of usermeta to the WPMU user tables for bbPress to pick up on. The plugin page says pretty clearly that this plugin is compatible with bbPress version upto 1.0-alpha-2. With the recent release of BuddyPress 1.0 and bbPress 1.0-alpha-6 (which has some very cool WordPress integration capabilities), this simple plugin developed a huge bug. Since it makes very little sense to release another version of this plugin, I wrote up a simple fix for it on our Community Forums. Speaking of our WLTC Community, we are up to 68 users who are actively making friends, posting on their blogs and writing up forum topics. I can’t say this often enough, but BuddyPress and WordPress have amazed me once more. It […]

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