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Lorelle’s WordPress 2.1 Teasers

Lorelle has a great wrap-up of some of the most recent teasers concerning the newest version of the non-wordpress.com WordPress software.  Bottom line: plugin creators, check those queries!
Glimpses of WordPress 2.1 « Lorelle on WordPress
So there is a lot of great things to look forward to with the new version. And another reminder – if you are a WordPress Plugin or Theme author, make sure yours is up-to-date and will handle the transition. It’s expected to be a huge update for a lot of users.
The newest version of WP seems to be designed to eliminate a large number [...]

Readability, Usability and Blogs

LifeHack.org turns in a great roundup of tips on keeping readers and making a blog usable. The basics? Keep it readable:
Six Improvements to Your Blog – lifehack.org
Format Your Text- Take the extra time to write “pretty” posts, such as it were. Make it so that people can read what you’re typing, and do your best to keep the tone communicative, and not too dense. Translation: big fat paragraphs of dense text usually don’t make for “friendly” blog reading. (Look at David Byrne’s journal. Great stuff, but soooooooo long.) And get friendly with things like bulleted lists, shorter and [...]