October 29, 2006
WP 2.0.5 has hit the street
Posted by nitestrike in : Site Changes, Minor Ver, Blogging , add a comment
WordPress has been released and am in the process of rolling it out to Dev-N-Progress and see how it shakes out.
Here are some of the changes coming in WordPress 2.0.5:
- is_feed() status is preserved when handling 404s
- manually entering pages greater than the number of pages for a given post now shows the highest numbered page
- improved security in wp-db-backup plugin
- user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database
- fix for rel=”nofollow nofollow” repetition
- plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename
- multi-line options in /wp-admin/options.php are preserved
- the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name
- the_meta() properly ignores keys that start with an underscore
- post meta keys and data are escaped properly on the post screen
- users are prevented from entering strings that will be interpreted as serialized data when coming out of the database
- make_clickable() no longer adds links within links
- error suppression
- i18n fixes
This is not an exhaustive list… just the important ones, or the ones I thought people would care about.
You can check out these fixes and more in version 2.0.5 Ronan.
Update: I have rolled out WordPress 2.0.5 to Dev-N-Progress and so far so good.
Resource:
2.0.5 Ronan - WordPress.org
Changes in WordPress 2.0.5 - Marc on WordPress
WordPress.org - Download
October 28, 2006
bbPress has hit ver 0.73…
Posted by nitestrike in : Dev, Blogging , add a comment
For those keeping track, not sure if there are any out there. Get your bbPress on, everybody! I’ll have to give it a try and see the improvements, hate to say it but have not had a chance to keep up on it.
After a couple of weeks of kicking the tires, we’ve decide we’ve fixed enough bugs to put out a new version of bbPress. So here it is: 0.73, the latest in the bbPress “Bix” series.
The changes in brief:
- Improved rewrite rules generation
- Template cleanup
- Much better support for non-English forums including support for right-to-left languages
- Improved installation
- Even better integration with other software
- And, of course, a small security fix
More detailed information about the changes can be gleaned from the tickets we fixed and the code we improved.
Product:
bbPress - New release (Download)
October 1, 2006
UPDATE: Live Writer 1.0 update
Posted by nitestrike in : UPDATE, Blogging , add a comment
They have released an update to Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta. They have many new improvements, one of the ones that I found most announcing was the Spell Check hot key, it has been updated to F7. There is also a plugin BlogThis written to work directly from IE and in FireFox.
This update to Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) features:
- Tagging support
- Support for Blogger Beta
- Improvements to categories
- And more…(linked)
You can also now visit the Writer community on Windows Live Gallery to download more plugins and extensions for Writer. Some of the plugins currently featured on Gallery are:
- “Blog This” Extensions for IE & Firefox
- Emoticon, Eventful, and Flickr plug-ins for inserting more rich content
I also found a site that hosts a great collection of Windows Live Writer plugins. There are plugins to insert YouTube videos or insert current audio file you are listening to in Media Player or iTunes, to name just a couple. I would differently give it a look through.
Source: Writer Zone
Resource: Live Writer Gallery
Resource: Windows Live Writer Plugins