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Design for Dough! WordPress MU Plugin Contest is On

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Wednesday September 23, 2009   

Design for Dough! WordPress MU Plugin Contest is OnCalling all you fame seekers! The WordPress (news, site) MultiUser plugin contest is officially open for submissions.

Every year WPMU.org challenges all participating authors to put their skills to the ultimate test. Winners take home the glory of being in the WordPress spotlight, plus a fair amount of cold hard cash. Today the pot is at US$ 1,000 but team WPMU is still seeking more donations to add.

The rules are simple:

  1. Make an awesome plugin and upload it somewhere on the ‘net (WPMU recommends WPMU DEV http://wpmudev.org/)
  2. Register as a contributor at WPMU.org and write up your plugin for general consumption.
  3. Vote. Wait. Vote. Wait. And while you’re waiting make sure you vote.

In addition to traditional WPMU plugins the contest also supports submissions for BuddyPress, WordPress MU’s new-ish bundled collection of extras specifically for social networking.

All submissions must be made by October 16th. For more information, including details on becoming a sponsor if you're in a charitable mood, redirect yourself.

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Top 5 SEO Tools for WordPress, According to WordPress

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Monday September 21, 2009   

Top 5 SEO Tools for WordPress, According to WordPressJames Dimick, a Web developer at WordPress (news, site), says, "When it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there are a slew of options out there. Some good and some not so good."

We're inclined to agree. Thankfully, Dimick's got your back. His recent list of what he feels is the cream of the crop when it comes to SEO plugins for WordPress is, as far as we can tell, pretty thorough. Here's his top 5, which range from full packages to simple solutions:

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Next WordPress Release to Sport Native Image Editing Tools

By Geoff Spick  |  Thursday September 17, 2009   

wordpress_logo_2009.jpgWordPress (news, site) Image Editor is coming as part of version 2.9 to help those who want to add their pics within the CMS.

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Tinker Time, Movable Type 5 Beta is Up for Grabs

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Thursday September 3, 2009   

Tinker Time, Movable Type 5 Beta is Up for Grabs Team Movable Type (news, site) is "really stoked" about their latest announcement: a 2 month period of beta releases and official quality assurance testing for Movable Type 5.0, starting yesterday.

Beau Smith of Six Apart admits there are still some kinks in the code, but the development team was anxious to get it out and let the testing games begin. The plan is to release a new beta version every two weeks until it's stable (they're aiming for an official release some time in November) so feedback, as usual, is golden. 

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Shortened WordPress URLs Swing Our Way

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Friday August 21, 2009   

wordpress_logo_2009.jpgURL shorteners are certainly nothing new. TinyURL, bit.ly, ow.ly—you know the lineup. Nevertheless, they're pret-ty handy and WordPress’ (news, site) recent addition to the family has some added perks slash frivolous cool factors:

  • WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
  • Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
  • These are all exposed in the <head> using rel=shortlink.
  • it doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
  • The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
  • WP.me is spam-free

Though the concept is ultra basic, these days it's still important to up your game if you can. We're sure tr.im has some related stories; although they've been saved since the announcement, we all thought it was lights out for the service at the end of this year. Can you imagine all of those URLs linking to dead space? Terrible. WordPress' own shortener attempts to nip sustainability-related disaster in the bud:

"WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable," explains Matt Mullenweg, WordPress' founding developer. "Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future."

If you're a WordPress user, you can start using the new feature right now, right now by looking for the "Get Shortlink" button next to the permalink when you write or edit a post.

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Movable Type 4.31 is in the Oven, Nifty Plugins Abound

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Wednesday August 19, 2009   

Movable Type 4.31 is in the Oven, Nifty Plugins AboundIf you happened to notice something buggy going on with Movable Type 4.3, we can explain: there's a bug in it. The custom fields and new asset manager related pest has been acknowledged by the Movable Type (news, site) team, but as of now there's no available solution. Word is that version 4.31, currently being tested, will be up for grabs at some point this week.

In better news, it's a good day for yes-frills fans. There's a new Movable Type plugin called Image Cropper available, which allows users to--you guessed it--crop images. Additionally, an updated version of the More Custom Fields plugin has been released and features a “Selected Entries” field. You can link as many entries as you like to the field and the order you add entries in is also maintained.

As always, you can keep up with Movable Type tidbits here, but if you want to be the first to upgrade to version 4.31, you'll have to incessantly refresh this page.

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Say Hello to Movable Type 4.3

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Thursday July 30, 2009   

mt-leader.jpg It’s here, it’s here, it’s here. After a flirty beta dance, Movable Type 4.3 is finally taking the stage.

We already threw together and pushed out a couple posts about the bread crumbs Six Apart dropped before the release, and since this is sort of like a lightweight Christmas for you MT fans we'll get straight down to business and tell you about the biggest new features in 4.3:

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Bid Farewell, WordPress 2.0.x is Dead and Buried

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Thursday July 30, 2009   

wordpress_logo_2009.jpg "We bit off more than we could chew," admits Mark Jaquith, a lead WordPress developer, on the WordPress development blog.

Jaquith's comment is in reference to the recent decision to axe the 2.0.x legacy branch, even though it was was slated to make it to 2010. The decision was mainly based on the amount of security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years, and what it would mean to port those changes (a crap-ton of work, instability, the possibility of new bugs).

"Additionally, far fewer people stayed on the 2.0.x branch than we anticipated," continues Jaquith. "I take that as a testament to the new features in WordPress and perhaps even more the features offered by plugins, many of which don’t support older versions of WordPress!"

A post about the possible multimedia features in version 2.9 was also on the schedule this month, but so far we've seen neither hide nor hair. Perhaps with the 2.0.x weight off their shoulders, the WordPress heads in develoment will take the month's remaining day to throw something together. Cross your fingers and keep watch with us here.

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WordPress Encourages Communication, Changes Changelogs

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Wednesday July 22, 2009   

wordpress_logo_2009.jpg Communication is key in any relationship, including those between plugin authors and plugin users. Promoting such healthy unions is team WordPress (news, site), who recently announced some improvements made to their changelogs in order to further detail the changes made between versions.

"We feel that all software should have a changelog that details, at a high level, what changes have been made in each version so that the user can make an informed decision about when to upgrade and how much testing they should do with their site," said Peter Westwood, Lead Developer, WordPress.

Specifically, the development team has added support for a Changelog section in the plugin readme.txt file. This information is then displayed as its own little tab in the plugin directory, and also in the back-end of the user's WordPress blog.

The team delicately pointed out that a large number of plugin authors aren't leaving notes on the reasons behind changes to subversion plugin repositories. Not helpful folks, not helpful at all.

We think the message here is pretty clear: If you want to be a contributing member of the Web CMS society, take a few minutes out of your day to provide for the people who take a few minutes out of their day to familiarize themselves with your work. Even-steven.

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WordPress Fixes an XSS Goof, Releases 2.8.2

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Tuesday July 21, 2009   

wordpress_logo_2009.jpgAaand we're back with another teeny tiny WordPress (news, site) release update. The team announced the availability of "Baker" 2.8.1 Candidate 1 earlier this month after a couple Beta versions, but a pesky bug managed to slip through the cracks.

The "XSS vulnerability" caused funky comment author URLs when displayed in the admin. The development team pointed out that this goof could be exploited to redirect users away from the admin to another site. Definitely no good.

WordPress 2.8.2 can be downloaded here, or you can go to the Upgrade page of your blog's admin for an automatic fix.

Other than a few hiccups, WordPress "Baker" is cookin' and version 2.9 of the popular platform is already well underway. What we know so far about the upcoming release is that a good chunk of the development team's focus is going to improving multi media features. A few hints on exactly what's coming have already been dropped, but a solid list of the anticipated 2.9 features will reportedly be posted some time this month, after the priority has been determined

Until then, we're waiting at the Web CMS table, fork and knife in hand. Feel free to join us.

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Six Apart Looks Ahead with Movable Type Previews

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Friday July 10, 2009   

mt-leader.jpgLike we mentioned earlier today, Six Apart (news, site) is dipping its feet into the Alpha and Beta testing pool. The most recent example is Movable Type 4.3 Beta 1, which was released just this week. But why stop there? Six Apart is already talking publicly about the 5.0 release as well. The requirements process and early development work on MT5 has already begun, and there is a reported particular focus on better content management and ease of use.

As for these low-level iterations, we think they are good for two things: alarming the general MT fan base with the different kinds of bugs that slip through the cracks and, ultimately, fixing them. For example, we saw a particularly nasty issue involving article filtering in 4.25 and 4.26, but the Movable Type team was quick to resolve it thanks to the QA process and v4.261 was released shortly afterward.

With that example set, Six Apart urges all you users out there to get involved as their gear up towards their first Movable Type Pro 5.0 Beta release. Says Matt Jacobs, product manager for Movable Type, "The best way is to use MT forums, send us feedback directly, or get active on our ProNet email list and tell us what you'd like to see."

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ExpressionEngine 2.0 is Still Coming Soon

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Friday April 10, 2009   

expressionengine_logo_09.jpgThe team behind ExpressionEngine, a fully loaded content management system from EllisLab Inc., has been teasing us all for weeks.

Version 2.0 of the CMS has been in the works for awhile, but recently enough information has been made available to do a quick preview. The update promises a more powerful engine, a new control panel, and will be built with CodeIgniter.

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Subtext the .NET Blogging Platform You Never Knew

By Dee-Ann LeBlanc  |  Tuesday March 24, 2009   

Subtext .NET Blogging Platform

Usually, when you see terms like "open source," you think Linux and the languages such as PHP, Python and Perl that tend to dominate the open source landscape. However, projects like Subtext (news, site) prove that assumption wrong.

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