As always, WordPress continues to hustle through, onwards and upwards, towards their latest release. Looks like there will be a lot of concentration on media uploads in this new version, based on the polling data. Even cooler is the newest “trash can” feature for deleting posts:
via WordPress › Blog » 2.9 Features Vote Results.
Lower ranked features aren’t off the radar, but may take lower priority than some other (non-media) features we have in the works. One of my favorite 2.9 features is in trunk now, and changes the way we delete content. Goodbye, annoying popup asking me if I’m sure [...]
I’m working on redesigning the front page of this website a bit with a new theme. The new look will be based on the current design, but more flexible, a bit flashier and like my political blog’s front page, more of a representation of the website as a whole, rather than this one blog.
As I’m working along with the new design, I’ve hatched a scheme to create an interesting sidebar which reflects some different thinking than most that I’ve seen. But I’d like this sidebar to – if possible – stretch the entire height of the page. While searching for [...]
I’m starting to discover reasons for which I might like to use a “Sticky” post on my WordPress blogs: posts which stay stuck to the top of your post roll on your home page. Sometimes, it’s better to have a small introductory post greet your visitors than to send them to a static home page with very little content.
But now that they have the sticky concept down, it’s time they added a filter option to the Edit Posts screen, as I suggested in the below Ideas page:
WordPress › WordPress Ideas — Idea: Display ’sticky post’ icon on Edit Posts page.
An interesting discussion of the DOCTYPE declaration in WordPress themes. Seems to me that Alex is spot-on with this: you can’t claim a theme as XHTML 1.1 compliant because you can’t know what gets added to it by the end user. Sure, the *theme* might be strict as a school marm. But if the end user chooses to add all manner of sloppy JS widgets for MySpace and whatever else, the final result is not going to be strict at all.
I confess that, even with my own blogs, the “strict” doctype is probably over-selling a bit. Some times – even [...]
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I love the freedom and random expressiveness of the modern service-based, social Internet. I thrill to every new development as it comes up, reading Mashable.com as my first source for the latest news. But its always worth considering whenever signing up for the next new service what that next new service will mean to your privacy and that of your audience. I noticed that Mashable.com is now using FaceBook Connect to authenticate those audience members that want to roll that way:
Example article on Mashable.com.
Wonderful. It’s a nice convenience to only have one login and use those credentials in many places [...]
