Justin Shattuck (of justinshattuck.com), has released a WWW Redirect plugin. Almost the direct opposite of Matt’s no-www plugin, Justin’s plugin adds back in the www, and insures that all variants (http, https, index.php, etc…) are directed to the appropriate central URL.
In short, http://domain.com becomes http://www.domain.com.
http://domain.com/index.php becomes http://www.domain.com
and https://domain.com/index.php becomes https://www.domain.com/index.php
It appears that WordPress 2.5 will not only include no new features, it will actually remove several existing features. Matt Mullenweg has been quoted as saying, “We are actually going to remove many of the features to build a lighter blogging engine, where users will only add the features they want via an add-on system.”
Great. Here comes the excessive confusion as people upgrade and find that a huge portion of their blogs have broken, as they forgot to add on the stuff they use – or else didn’t realize that it had been removed in the first place.
What’s going to be removed? Image uploading/management tool, User management tool, Page Creation, Link Management, Entry Import, ALL comment management, and the dashboard.
Automattic, the folks behind WordPress, WordPress.com, Askimet, and a couple of other things, have released WordPress Widgets.
Much like the widgets availible for WordPress.com users, the WP Widgets system is designed to integrate with your blog, allowing WordPress users an easy customization of their sidebar. The draw back? It only works on certain themes (out of the box), and it can be a bit difficult to implement on others.
WordPress converts appear to be coming out in droves, lately.
First, Kent Newsome made comments about switching to WordPress from Blogger. Actually, between the two of us, we managed to port his Blogger theme over to WordPress (pretty easy, once you get the hang of it). I haven’t heard from him about this in about three weeks, so I’m not sure if he’s still going to switch. There were a few issues that were keeping him from making the final decision. I’ll discuss these, below, because they relate to everyone making the switch.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve heard more and more comments – in more and more places – about people wanting to switch from Blogger to either WordPress.com, or a self-hosted version of WordPress. The latest to take this leap is Aurelius (Blog: The Lost Legionary). He’s going to be trying out the self-hosted version of WordPress, and – if he likes it – boom, time to transfer the template.
Which brings me to my point. Just what does it take to transfer from Blogger to a self-hosted version of WordPress?
The answer? Potentially, not much.
Here’s everything you’ll need to transfer:
That’s it, amazingly enough. Well, that’s assuming you don’t want to transfer your Blogger template, too. We’ll get to that, in a minute.
Performancing.com, the makers of Metrics, have released a WordPress plugin, making it as simple as one click to enable Metrics on your site. You can read more about the plugin at performancing, or you can download it at the plugin author’s homepage.
Technorati Tags: performancing metrics, metrics, wordpress, pluginIt appears that the WordPress Shuttle Project (a project to re-design the WordPress administration interface) has finally tossed a mock-up online. It looks really slick, and appears to be a heck of a lot better than the current default dashboard (even with the 2.x AJAX-ified goodness).
For more information, and screenshots, visit the Shuttle Wave One article at Broken Kode.
Announcing a new plugin, SimpleTagsPlus. This plugin is an extention of the existing SimpleTags plugin, that allows for not only technorati, but also flickr and del.icio.us tagging. For more information, or to download, please see the SimpleTagsPlus page.
Recently, I’ve been having an odd problem with spam.
I am utilizing the Spam Karma 2 plugin, and receive daily reports in e-mail about the number of comment spams blocked. I’ve noticed a weird trend, lately. One day, SK2 will block maybe five or six spams (up to, say, fifteen, max). The next day, it’ll have blocked over 200 spam attempts. Often, upon reviewing logs, I discover that the spam bot posting the comments is hung up on a single entry, and has attempted to post more than two hundred spams to one entry. Incidentally, this mass-spamming is what prompted SK2 installation in the first place (an entry wound up with 230+ moderated spams).
It just makes me wonder what the heck is going on. The spammers aren’t going to stop spamming, but the fact that I have over two hundred a day, at least three or four days a week – often the multiple comments are on a single entry – makes me blink.
Internet users quick to judge. 16/01/2006. ABC News Online — A new study shows that Internet users judge the layout of a website within 1/20th of a second. Amazing, yeah? Really makes you wonder about your own layout. It’s made me wonder about mine, hence this post.
What do you think about my layout?
Pinyo, over at GreatNexus Webmaster Blog has released a new plugin entitled Incoming Links 1.0.
Incoming Links will search the Technorati cosmos feed for links associated with your blog. Upon finding them, it will display the last ten, in unordered list format. This is not a post-by-post plugin, this plugin finds links for the entire blog, and it appears to be the first one of its kind.
