This update catches a small bug when saving with no options and adds a new feature allowing you to limit the number of revisions saved in adition to the existing function of turning off WordPress post revisions.

You can always download the latest stable version from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cms-post-control/

This is something I had to do the other day, and I pretty much put it on every WordPress theme I design in footer.php

Simply insert this PHP code where you want the copyright notice to appear – in the example it is simply styled with paragraph CSS tags, but you could use anything you want, for instance a CSS class.

<p>Content is copyright &amp;copy; 2008-<?php echo date('Y'); ?> YOUR NAME HERE</p>

Since then I have gone through a few point revisions catching bugs and adding the last few parts of the previous versions functionality, which is now complete.

You can always download the latest stable version from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cms-post-control/

Remember – this is the beta – I would strongly advise you don’t use this on a live production site (of any importance!) as it is really just for developers and bug hunters! You should only be using beta releases on local or testing servers.

Lots more to come on this (including more information about my presentation this year) – so drop by and get involved!

Beta releases are pre-release versions that should only be used in ‘test’ environments as there may still be some bugs to squish. In-fact, users are encouraged to download the Beta versions to help catch those bugs – you should create a new ticket if you find an issue with the beta. Think of this as your little bit of help for the whole WordPress community!

There does seem to be a whole lot of tweaking going on – things that theme and plugin developers should be interested in include:

• Add CodePress syntax highlighting to  Theme and Plugin editors
• Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors
• Add column “Rating” in Administration > Links > Edit
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
• Improved Widget user interface
• Support more than one gallery on the same page
• Add description field for tags

Beyond the surface level stuff, there is a whole bunch of new stuff for WordPress plugin and theme developers to play around with:

• Add Sticky to list of post states
• Introduction and widespread use of transient and related filters
• Add hooks for the Users, Categories, Link Categories, Tags and Comments table columns
• Cron spawning improvements
• Add “style” and “html” arguments to wp_list_authors
• Add WP_Widget class and move native widgets into WP_Widget
• Allow other taxonomies (e.g. post categories) to be used with wp_tag_cloud (Changeset 10554)
• Add “exclude_tree” argument to wp_list_categories and make exclude behave like exclude_tree when hierarchical is specified–this was actually a 2.7.1 change (Ticket 8614)
• New Template Tag, the_modified_author (Ticket 9154)
• Enhanced support for custom taxonomies Add echo argument to wp_tag_cloud()
• Make authentication more pluggable
• Fixes to query_posts (obey post_type, drop orderby=category, use group by for meta key queries, remove meta_value from selected fields)
• Allow a plugin to filter the classes applied in wp_list_pages()
• Store field types in wpdb object
• Add tag description functions tag_description and term_description
• Allow menu reordering via plugin
• Add hook for updating user profile
• Add hook for adding info to plugin update message
• Allow plugin to replace just the default help while preserving the contextual help
• New escaping naming convention Ticket 9650

Big changes for developers to watch out for include:

• Drop post_category column from wp_posts table, and link_category column from wp_links schemas
• Deprecate get_catname()
• Deprecate wp_specialchars() in favor of esc_html(). Encode quotes for esc_html() as in esc_attr(), to improve plugin security
• Deprecate sanitize_url() and clean_url() in favor of esc_url_raw() and esc_url()

This is by no-means everything – I’ve just picked out some of the highlights! You can read the full list on the official WordPress announcement page, or read the blog announcement.

There is no better way to learn new things about WordPress, discuss developments and meet like-minded bloggers, developers and designers. The exact format is being discussed, but will most-likely include a number of presentations from various WordPress experts. These are not sales pitches – quite the opposite… in-fact you are guaranteed to learn a whole bunch of new stuff over the course of the two day conference.

Of particular interest is that one of the founders of WordPress Matt Mullenweg, will be presenting at the conference. It is a rare opportunity to both meet Matt in person and hear his opinions on the current and future direction of WordPress.

Also Mike Little has confirmed his attendance – who also played a major part in the early days of WordPress development. He’s not only a really nice, down-to-earth guy, but also provided some useful input to the conference last year.

The conference is for all users of WordPress – not just developers. What-ever your level of experience in WordPress, you are sure to find the conference very useful… this is the ONLY conference in the UK dedicated purely to WordPress!

Ticket prices are £35 for the two day conference, but you can get an early-bird discount by booking before June 1st mid-day and get your tiket for the bargain price of just £25 – don’t delay buy your ticket here.

You can also bisit the official blog of WordCampUK 2009 by visiting the official blog.

If you are using a version below WordPress 2.7 you can still continue to use the previous version - you won’t even get the update notification in the plugins page, clever huh! You are advised to upgrade your main WordPress install of-course as soon as possible.

You can download the latest version here, or visit the main plugin page here.

I have been using this iPhone application almost from day 1 – and although it had some major shortcomings I was fairly happy with it. I often used it to jot down ideas for posts which I would save as drafts. It was limited in a number of ways though – which I’m glad to say have now been addressed!

The new features include:

• Comment moderation (my no.1 wishlist feature – finally I’m able to edit comments on the move!!)
• Landscape editing mode for posts (VERY welcome!)
• Link creation help – for those of us that don’t like to write code!
• Page creation and editing
• Photo resizing and optimisation

It’s great to see development of this application – and it’s sure to help the popularity of WordPress grow! To update, just visit the Apple App Store and update through iTunes and best of all it’s FREE!

You insert WordPress shortcodes like this [shortcode option1="value1" option2="value2"] into your main content area- but if you want to use WordPress shortcode outside of the loop in your template use the following PHP:

 <?php echo do_shortcode('[shortcode option1="value1" option2="value2"]'); ?>