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WPWeekly Episode 82 – The Tinfoil Hat Brigade

WPWeekly Episode 82 – The Tinfoil Hat Brigade

By Jeffro on December 23, 2009

wordpressweekly1In episode 82, I geeked out with Otto42 and Jeremy Clarke as we discussed a number of topics centered around WordPress development. This episode will most likely go over a lot of people’s heads but I still think it’s worth a listen if you’re at all interested in the privacy stuff that happened a few weekends ago or want to hear us talk about the issues surrounding testing and WordPress.

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This episode of WordPress Weekly is sponsored by Webdevstudios.com These guys do awesome development work for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and other open source systems. They also release a number of high quality, free plugins to the community that you can find by pointing your browser to webdevstudios.com/topics/plugins/

Stories Discussed:

WordPress Privacy And Phoning Home
WordPress 2.9 Released as well as word on 2.9.1
New Default Theme In 2010
bbPress Is Back
Canonical Plugins

Last Weeks WordPress Trivia Question:

Matt mentioned in a public discussion the unofficial slogan for WordPress which of course he said jokingly. Tell me what that slogan is.

WordPress Trivia Answer:

we suck less with every release

This Weeks Trivia Question

Near which holiday was bbPress born?

Announcements:

Next week, I’ll be interviewing the WordPress MU Gurus themselves Ron and Andrea Rennick.

WPWeekly Meta:

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 31 Minutes

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WP.me Links Coming In WordPress 2.9

WP.me Links Coming In WordPress 2.9

By Jeffro on December 18, 2009

When Matt announced that he had purchased the wp.me domain back in August, there was a lot of questioning on what he would do with it. After publishing a poll and getting ideas on what to do, he developed a URL shortener for WordPress.com users where they could easily create a wp.me link to their blog post from within the editor screen. Matt promised that in the future, WordPress.org users would be able to take advantage of the URL shortener if they used the WordPress.com stats plugin. I’ve been using the plugin ever since the announcement but have yet to see the WP.me link generator added on.

Yesterday however, I noticed that the plugin had an update available. Reading the changelog I noticed the WP.me shortlinks support would be available. After upgrading the plugin, I still didn’t see the button that generates these links. A few people on Twitter and the forum told me they could see it but they were using WordPress 2.9. I’ve since confirmed that if you are running WordPress 2.8.6 you will not see the link generator but it will become available once you upgrade to WordPress 2.9 and version 1.6 of the WordPress.com stats plugin.

Community member Otto did some digging around and he published his findings on how the shortener works in the following thread.

The Get Shortlink button appears next to the edit button when writing or editing a post.

The link generated for this post: http://wp.me/pBMYe-Lu

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Taking Out The WordPress Trash

Taking Out The WordPress Trash

By Jeffro on August 5, 2009

One of the new features already implemented in the bleeding version of WordPress aimed at WP 2.9 is the Trash Status. This new status serves two purposes. One functional and the other UI related. First I’ll start with the UI. In the backend of WordPress, the Trash status link will show up in the edit posts page, edit pages, edit comments, and edit attachments. Here is what it’s looking like so far.

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In the screenshot above, that link just shows you how many items are in the trash. The next screenshot shows Trash as a quick edit link.

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Currently in WordPress, the Trash link is called Delete. When you click on the delete link, a dialog box pops up asking you if you’re sure you want to delete the item. While it’s nice to have a reminder before something ends up deleted, I’ve discovered that I enjoy just hitting the trash link with no reminder box popping up. There is no need for that box since the item is moved to the trash which you can easily recover.

Here is what the actual Trash bin looks like for the comments.

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One thing I’ve noticed is that it appears as though each area has it’s own trash bin. That means there are three different trash cans. One for comments, one for pages, and one for posts. I’m not sure if that is the correct way to go about it as I’d like one trash can to rule them all with a drop down box to select different items. Since this is part of the developmental version of WordPress, chances are things will change with it’s implementation before it hits the public. I know at one of the next dev meetings I attend, I’ll be talking about this trash status and adding my input.

Right now, I have no idea on how to configure how the trash bins work in as far as configuring a number of days for items to stay in the trash or for auto emptying. I’m not even sure UI will be added to the backend to configure the behaviour of the feature or if it will need to be configured through the WP-Config file like Post Revisions. I’ve added the topic to the meeting agenda for this week so I’ll update you when I find out what is going on.

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Help Shape WordPress 2.9

Help Shape WordPress 2.9

By Jeffro on July 7, 2009

The feature priority survey for WordPress 2.9 has been published on the WordPress development blog enabling users to pick and choose which features they would like to take higher priority over others. Results of the survey will not be published however, the anticipated feature list for WordPress 2.9 will be later on in July.

There was one question in the poll that had me scratching my head.

canonicalplugins

Every time I think I have this term canonical plugins figured out, I read something which throws my understanding out of the water. So far, my understanding of the term is that these plugins would be recommended so to speak where a number of people would be contributing to these particular plugins. However, when I read the answers to the question seen in the image above, I start to think that canonical plugins are blocks of functionality that instead of being directly in core, are actually just a plugin. In fact, I do a great job confusing myself trying to think of what the heck this all means.

So now, I have no idea what canonical means. Can someone help me out?

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