WordPress Report For The Week Of December 19th 2008

5 Years Of WordPress – Ozh who is a very active contributor in the WordPress community has published an awesome post which highlights the past five years of WordPress development. The article includes photos as well as short stories regarding each version from 0.7.1 to 2.7. A great way to look at how far WordPress has come.- http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-interface/

Updated Plugins – Lester Chan’s who is the developer behind some of the most popular plugins for WordPress recently announced that he has updated all 15 of his plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.7. Lester was going to retire his stick post plugin thanks to stickies now being a default feature but because the demand was so high, Lester decided to keep the plugin around and update it. On top of all this, Lester also introduced a new plugin called WP-CommentNavi which basically adds pages to your comments similar to how his PageNavi plugin paginates posts.- http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/12/11/lester-chan-wordpress-plugins-december-2008-update/

BuddyPress Hits Beta -BuddyPress which is a project headed up by Andy Peatling and provides a social aspect to WordPressMU was released as a beta on December 15th. This release consisted of the BuddyPress components as well as both default themes. Keep in mind that in order to use BuddyPress, you’ll need to first install WordPress MU. -http://buddypress.org/blog/2008/12/buddypress-10b1-components/

Plugin Of The Week – Filosofo Comments Preview – Filosofo Comments Preview lets you preview WordPress comments before you submit them. After the plugin is installed and activated, end users will see a new button labeled PREVIEW next to the submit button. This allows visitors to preview their comments before publishing them. It’s also very quick to load. - http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/comments-preview/

Popularity: 33% [?]

Wordpress Plugins: PingpressFM

I have been using Wordpress for some time now, and thought I would talk about just one of the plugins I use currently called PingpressFM. If you are familiar with the service called Ping.fm, and you use this service for microblogging updates to sites such as Twitter, Tumblr and others, and you also run a Wordpress blog, then this is the plugin for you!

Now, if you use Ping.fm, you know you can go there and input up to 140 characters, including links, and it will send out to the various services that you are subscribed to, automatically. PingpressFM works the same way by accessing Ping.fm and sending your blog post title to each of the services you subscribe to along with the permalink to the blog post. In this way, you don’t have to make a separate post to Ping.fm or your other microblogging services as this plugin does it for you as soon as you publish your post.

You can download this plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pingpressfm/

Popularity: 54% [?]