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  • Speed up posting to WordPress

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    via Pat Phelan comes a nifty WordPress plugin which speeds up posting from WordPress blogs. Called WP-No Ping Wait, the plugin works by waiting until after the post has been posted before alerting the pinging services! Nice one, thanks Pat. UPDATE – this plugin has caused issues on a number of sites I manage so…

  • Too little too late – Google tries to win back Bloggers

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    Blogger is Google’s free hosted blogging platform. Blogger’s steady decline as a blogging platform has been well documented by Blogger users. Via Marshal Kirkpatrick today comes news that Google have launched (in beta, of course!) a newer version of Blogger. This version has lots of shiny bits such as allowing change of colour of your…

  • WordPress updated to 2.0.4

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    WordPress was updated to version 2.0.4 over the weekend. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board. WordPress 2.0.4 is available for download here.

  • OpenDNS speeds up my feed reader

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    When you see something new being lauded by Matt Mullenweg (of WordPress fame), Kevin Burton (of TailRank) and Chris Pirillo (of GnomeDex fame) you sit up and take notice. In this case they are talking up a new service called OpenDNS. OpenDNS is a very simple idea – it is a centralised series of DNS…

  • WordPress update to v2.03

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    WordPress have announced that version 2.03 has been released. This version contains Small performance enhancements Movable Type / Typepad importer fix Enclosure (podcasting) fix The aforementioned security enhancements (nonces) I updated this blog a few minutes ago and all seems well! The update was straightforward enough – ftp into the site, delete old files, upload…

  • Automating the backup of your blog

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    I had a couple of hosting issues a week or so ago which got me to thinking (worrying!) about backing up the content of this blog. Fortunately WordPress 2.x ships with a backup plugin builtin. Unfortunately, I had failed to get the plugin to work previously and hadn’t persevered. Now, I decided, was the time…

  • Free digital identities from Verisign

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    If you are not familiar with the notion of a digital identity, I would recommend you take a few minutes to listen to the podcast I did with Drummond Reed over on PodLeaders a couple of months back. Drummond is the founder and CTO of Seattle-based Cordance and in the podcast, Drummond explained very clearly…

  • WordPress 2.0 released

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    The latest version of WordPress – WordPress 2.0 was released this evening – head on over to the WordPress Download site to get your copy. Well done to Matt, Donncha, and the rest of the team involved in getting this one out the door. Major reasons to update to WordPress 2.0? Nice Ajaxy back-end interface…