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Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Web 101: Full vs Partial Feeds

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Web 101

Over at the Blog Herald, there’s a great article on why people shouldn’t be using partial feeds. The author makes a lot of good points, essentially boiling it down to the fact that there are no benefits to using a partial feed. It doesn’t deter sploggers from stealing your content and it doesn’t bring extra traffic to your site; you are basically just frustrating your regular readers and alienating new ones. Read the full article for more.

What I find funny is his rationalizing of why it’s okay for some blogs (*ahem* the one he’s … Continue reading »

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Posted by Emily @ 4:12 pm

WordPress 2.5 RC1 available

March 18, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Matt has just made an announcement on the Dev blog that the WP 2.5 Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing. He also goes into some specifics about the new version and what we have to look forward to when 2.5 is finally released:

“A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting to you? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit … Continue reading »

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Posted by Emily @ 3:43 am

Share This updates

February 12, 2008 | Filed under: Miniblog

The extremely useful Share This social bookmarking plugin by Alex King (that we use on this very blog) is now available for TypePad and Blogger users! In addition to that, registered users now have access to snazzy new usage reports for the plugin.

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Posted by Emily @ 7:07 pm

WordPress 2.3.3

February 5, 2008 | Filed under: Miniblog

A pretty urgent new security release of WP is out. It fixes an issue where any user of you blog can edit any other user’s posts. If you just want to patch that issue you can download the new version of the file. 2.3.3 also fixes a few bugs, though, so otherwise you should download the whole release.

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Posted by Emily @ 1:21 pm

Around the Web

July 2, 2008 -

It's that time again. WordPress 2.6 is expected to be released in a week or two. This isn't as big a release as 2.5, but there are definitely some handy new features and improvements. 2.6 Beta 2 was released yesterday if you can't wait to try it out. If you just want to see what's coming in 2.6 then check out Technosailer's 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6 as well as Weblog Tools Collection's What You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6.

April 2, 2008 -

If you are having any problems with your 2.5 installation or are just generally confused about where certain things are now, this post at Weblog Tools Collection has a very comprehensive list of helpful answers and fixes to problems.

Update: More FAQs.