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Post Versioning Developers familiar with Subversion, or SVN, understand the concept of versioning and diffs. Compare one file, or revision, against another file, or revision, and see a breakdown of differences between the two. With the help of GUI tools, developers can see a color-coded red vs. green (removed vs. added) presentation. This concept has now been applied to posts so you can view differences between posts as well as “revert” to an earlier version of a post. I absolutely love this feature and you can see an example of a “revision compare” built directly into WordPress.

Google Gears Support Gears is the Google technology that allows for Firefox (apparently IE 6 too, but I can’t confirm) to “pre-cache” pages and speed up access. Gears has been integrated with WordPress 2.6 on the admin side and speeds things up tremendously. This is particularly important where broadband access is limited or inaccessible (third world, for instance). To enable Gears in your new WordPress 2.6 installation, click on the Turbo link in the upper right corner of your WordPress admin.

XML-RPC Editor Functionality Quietly, a new bit of functionality snuck into WordPress trunk that threw a number of developers and kicked off an interesting discussion. In the development cycle, XML-RPC and Atom Pub API for remote editing was turned off by default as a “security precaution” since many recent WordPress security issues seem to stem from the XML-RPC protocol.

Pre Wordpress 2.3 Widgets WordPress Widgets (WPW) is like a plugin, but designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content (known as "widgets") without having to change any code. The Widgets SubPanel explains how to use the various Widgets that come delivered with WordPress, and the Widgets page at Automattic explains how to 'widgetize' themes and plugins. Using Text Widgets Using RSS Widgets Widget-ready themes Resources

Last.fm - last.fm music charts as a graphic in your sidebar Last.fm Adds the new version of the chart. Customizable color and type.

Feedburner - subscribe to blog via Feedburner Flickr Badge Widget - display your flickr photos in the sidebar Flickr Widget - same widget that www.wordpress.com uses flickr RSS Widgets - display flickr Photos on sidebar Flickr Photo Album - display Flickr album sets FlickerRSS - display Flickr photos; requires flickrRSS Plugin Flickr Spinnr - display Flickr photos in rotating cube Flickr Tag Cloud Widget - display a link tag cloud from your Flickr account

Yesterday had a quick look at podPress, the premier plugin for podcasting. It has a small incompatibility with the new Post Revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6. PodPress seems to be in the middle of a large update. I’ve used the “experimental” version (8.9) of the plugin and emailed the proposed fix to the authors, however for the more impatient here is the patch: view plaincopy to clipboardprintfunction post_edit($post_id) {      GLOBAL $post;      if($this->justposted) {          return;      }      $this->justposted = true;        if ( isset($_POST['post_ID']) && (int) $_POST['post_ID'] )          $post_id = (int) $_POST['post_ID'];        $this->settings_item_save($post_id, $_POST);  }   function post_edit($post_id) { GLOBAL $post; if($this->justposted) { return; } $this->justposted = true; if ( isset($_POST['post_ID']) && (int) $_POST['post_ID'] ) $post_id = (int) $_POST['post_ID']; $this->settings_item_save($post_id, $_POST); } It goes in podpress/podpress_admin_class.php, around line 51. What it does is to make sure the custom post meta fields used by podPress are attached to the actual Post, not one of the revisions.

All thumbnails are dynamically created when needed and then saved. So, there is no complex thumbnail management. The nice Highslide javascript library is included in the plugin and used if desired. It adds nice expansion effect to each link/thumbnail created by post-thumb revisited. So, Post-Thumb revisited is a thumbnail management system. Install the plugin, and then, you can add a thumbnail display in the Loop by a simple function: <?php the_thumb(); ?> This will show the thumbnail of the first picture in the post for each post in the Loop.

Step 1: Check if the theme is widget-ready You can’t use widgets if the theme you’re using isn’t widget-ready in the first place. Navigate to your Presentation menu and proceed to the Widgets sub-menu of your administration panel. If you see something like this, you’re out of luck:

Step 1: Check if the theme is widget-ready You can’t use widgets if the theme you’re using isn’t widget-ready in the first place. Navigate to your Presentation menu and proceed to the Widgets sub-menu of your administration panel. If you see something like this, you’re out of luck:

Step 2: Use available widgets For the rest of the tutorial, we’ll be working with one of our widget-ready themes called Moonlit Sky. You’ll notice this particular free WordPress theme has two sidebars on the right side. Both of these sidebars are widgetized. Go ahead and drag some of the available widgets into the sidebar of your choice and save the changes. These changes will be reflected on your main site automatically. Some widgets have a little icon next to them where you can set things like the title of the widget to be displayed on the site. Here’s what the settings for the Categories widget looks like:

In WordPress 2.5, the code is cleaner, the plugin is more responsive and you can add both “real” sidebar widgets, or add “fake” ones to match the dashboard. This plugin is currently intended for 2.5, but it also works in Wordpress 2.1 - 2.3 and can work in Wordpress 2.0.x if you use the Completely Wipe Dashboard option.

動的なページなWordpressだけにしっかりとSEO（Search Engine Optimization、検索エンジン最適化）はやっていきたいですね。Wordpressdで運営していく上で気をつける点は多々あると思いますが、今回はSEOに便利なプラグイン「All in One SEO Pack」を紹介したいと思います。こちらのプラグインはAll in Oneと名乗っているだけあって、細かな所まで行き届いたSEO対策を簡単に設定する事ができます。