UPDATE 2008-04-16: Well crud. I was just re-reading the WP 2.5 announcement post for something else, and spotted a bit about security updates between 2.3.3 and 2.5. So my previous advice about 2.3.3 being okay was incorrect. This is one of the areas where I disagree with the core developement team — if it was up to me, there would be a 2.3.4 security release for those who have good reasons why they can’t upgrade to 2.5 right now.
Okay, people, if you are running any version of WordPress older than 2.3.3 2.5*, you need to upgrade now. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Blogs, Search, Security, WordPress
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Also tagged payattention, Plugins, Search, Security, Spam, Themes, upgrade, Upgrades, WordPress
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September 22, 2007 – 11:15 am
Since the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release will debut the new tagging system, I thought I’d take some time to address what it means to use “tags” versus using “categories”. These things mean different things to different people, as it’s really just a matter of how you want to use them. But let’s examine what tags and categories are, how they are similar, how they are different, and why you might choose to use one system over the other, or use them together.
By Dougal
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Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Search, Semantics, Tech, WordPress
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Also tagged API, delicious, Folksonomies, Metadata, plugin, Plugins, Politics, Tags, taxonomy, Web, WordPress
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February 15, 2007 – 1:31 pm
Here’s an addendum for my previous post about OpenID: AOL supports OpenID authentication for all(?) screennames. I’ve verified that this works with AIM usernames, even if you don’t have a “real” AOL account. [...]
There is now a dedicated site for information about microformats: microformats.org
I’m working on a movie review using the hReview format. I’m hoping that we’ll see one of the big search engines start correlating microformat data soon. . [...]
Tantek Çelik has a whole gaggle of microformat links over on his site:
Basically, microformats are just organically grown rules to add application-specific semantics to existing XHTML documents. [...]
Thanks to the magic of Technorati and a little bit of ego surfing, I discovered that Mike Papageorge of Fiftyfoureleven passed me a musical baton a couple of days ago, but I missed it until now. I’m not sure how, because I keep up with that site… So, two days late, here are my answers:
- Total volume of music files on my computer:
- 5.6GB. . [...]
Socializing a WordPress site
For this week’s WordPress Wednesday installment, let’s look at a few changes I’ve made here on this site in the past few weeks. As mentioned previously, there were several areas that I knew I wanted to go ahead and improve in the short term, as interim measures until I put a whole new theme in place. One of my primary goals here is gain and retain readers. I want to make the site “sticky” by providing several ways for visitors to keep up with my updates, and to spread my links to other potential readers.
Of course, the first part of gaining readership is to provide quality content. [...]