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WordPress 2.7 Theme Updates

Lewis Wolfe — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:00:20 +0000

Alpen3col is now updated to handle all the new functions available in WordPress 2.7 - there’s something of a lack of configurability in wp_list_comments(), which will presumably be rectified as time goes on…

Other themes will follow as time and the need to earn actual money permit…

WordPress 2.7 update

Lewis Wolfe — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:17:35 +0000

So far as I have tested, all themes appear compatible with WordPress version 2.7 in their current versions - if you do find anything, please let me know. There may be a few advanced features unavailable as yet, due to the relevant template tags not yet catered for.
The question of whether you want to run 2.7 or not, I think is an open one - there seems no change in the overall situation following 2.5 and 2.6, just different admin bugs - image rollovers on the admin submit buttons aren’t right, Firefox 2,3, 800px resolution and the media uploads aren’t happy with Windows-version PHP. Linux, good, but that isn’t everybody, unfortunately…

SEO plugin

Lewis Wolfe — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:55 +0000

Still on the search for a SEO plugin for WordPress that gives the extras that might be needed for clients - without removing the flexibility, such as there is, even further from the standard setup of page titles, digests etc.

This one isn’t bad - wpSEO - although the page is German, which might put some off - no need to worry, it’s got the language files - and all the usual SEO stuff - duplicate content elimination, customised meta tags / page titles.

WordPress 2.7 arrival

Lewis Wolfe — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:55:09 +0000

With the imminent arrival of WordPress 2.7, there will be significant changes, most particularly to the way a theme brings comments to the page.

As it seems at present, all themes produced prior to WP 2.7 will be rendered obsolete - in the sense of not producing the full 2.7 functionality… whether you may want this, another matter…

We will be working through the back catalogue, and bringing all themes to WP2.7 capability. By the nature of things, this isn’t going to be happening overnight…

WordPress Pingbacks and Trackbacks - what’s the difference?

Lewis Wolfe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:58:34 +0000

If you write a blog post that links to another blog post (or sometimes just web page) and you have everything set up right, a pingback sends a notification to that target blog with information about your post.

A trackback can be sent even if you don’t link to the target post - you have to enter the ‘trackback url’ of the target blog post in the relevant input field (’Send trackbacks to’) when writing your post - which will give the same result. A blog will generally supply the link location for trackbacks to its posts.
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WordPress Functions and Versioning

Lewis Wolfe — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:10:11 +0000

Whether progress in WordPress development continues at the same pace or not, the issue of the capability of a theme to display all new functions, template tags etc, is a live one.

Referred to as compatibility, this perhaps isn’t quite accurate - a theme will (should) work with a range of WordPress versions, (for various reasons, good and bad, we don’t all heed the so-named ‘required’ updates) - however, the question is whether a theme will supply all the functionality of an installed version of WordPress.
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Google Public PageRank Update

Lewis Wolfe — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:03:24 +0000

So Google springs a minor surprise, with an update of public PR after approx 2 months, rather than the 3 months we had become accustomed to. This after the rather wayward schedule of 2007.

And so the (conspiracy) theories come out of the woodwork.
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Twitter API limits

Lewis Wolfe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:51:06 +0000

Becoming fractionally tired of these Twitter API limits, which seem to lock everything down fairly early on the day and keep everything slow thereafter.

The canard, (and I’m sure it is only that), that Twitter is a bit wonky due to the Ruby becomes self-fulfilling publicity, simply due to the prominence and focus of the site… which is distinctly unfortunate.

WordPress 2.7 Comments

Lewis Wolfe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:58:10 +0000

It seems ‘official’ - poor honest WordPress Theme designers have a load more work in prospect to drag their themes into compatibility with the projected 2.7 version.

Where this all fits with the discussion about Intense Debate still isn’t elucidated - fair enough, this is a major issue and not going to be decided and promulgated in a week or so.
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WordPress, jQuery and Microsoft

Lewis Wolfe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:18:28 +0000

WordPress has jQuery in it - it’s what makes the AJAX in the admin do its stuff and is there to be ‘re-used’ in any site customisations you fancy.

jQuery now announce that Nokia and Microsoft are including the into their official application development platform.
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