Monthly Archives: February 2009

Plugin Authors: use your ReadMe.txt file

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Owen

Here’s an interesting post that explains to plugin authors how to make full use of their readme.txt file. The purpose of the readme file is quite clear, it helps the WordPress plugin repository to apply the right captions and categorisation … Continue reading →

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Top 5 Statistics plugins for WordPress

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Owen

So you’ve been using your blog for a few weeks and would like to find out who your visitors are, where they come from and what pages they look at. You need a stats plugin for this and there are … Continue reading →

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Blog update to 2.7.1 – One touch success!

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Owen

I’ve just upgraded this blog to 2.7.1 and it’s the easiest upgrade I’ve ever done!. Thanks to WordPress’ One-Touch Upgade .. here’s what the upgrade looked like: Upgrade WordPress Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip Unpacking the core update Verifying the unpacked … Continue reading →

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Top 5 WordPress Spam Killer Plugins

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Owen

Do you ever receive any comments on your blog that don’t seem to make sense? Do you get any of those that have a whole chunk of links to site you don’t particularly care about? How about when you get … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.7.1 – RC 1

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Owen

I’ve installed WordPress 2.7.1 Release Candidate 1 on this blog and everything seems to be running just fine. The release had a few bug fixes, but I wasn’t really expected to spot too many changes. It’s harder to spot anything … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.7.1 – Release Candidate

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Owen

I’ve just spotted that WordPress 2.7.1 has just moved to Release Candidate. There are a few bug fixes on the cards, but it’s great to know that the dev team is already concentrating on coming up with some more goodness. … Continue reading →

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Thank a plugin developer day

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Owen

Just spotted that Matt announced a “Thank a plugin developer day” last Friday in celebration of the fact that they have reached 4000 plugins on Wordpress.com. Noone bought me a coffee (see sidebar) of Friday, but then again, my plugins … Continue reading →

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