By Ryan Imel on June 25, 2011
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By Ryan Imel on June 24, 2011
Today’s Daily Plugin is called Comment Form Quicktags. It gives your readers a little bit of formatting control over their responses. Link, bold, and blockquote buttons are added to the comment forms, for example.. With Quicktags you can even add your own buttons.
The video is embedded at the top of this post’s page, with more about the plugin below.
Comment Form Quicktags
Comment Form Quicktags will add a selection of buttons to your comment forms that will let readers quickly add basic formatting to their responses. It works out of the box, so to speak, but also comes with some customization in a settings page that is pretty cool.
This one seems like a popular technique for adding formatting to the WordPress comment system, but there might be others I don’t know about. Do you allow your readers to format their comments a bit, and if so what do you use?
What’s your favorite plugin to use within your comment system?
Video recorded with version 1.3.1 of Quicktags, running WordPress 3.1.3.
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By Ryan Imel on June 24, 2011
WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 2 is now ready for testing. Andrew Nacin posted the update to the WordPress news blog, along with an update on what has happened since Release Candidate 1. In the last ten days tweaks have been made to Twenty Eleven (the new default theme) and various RTL fixes.
Nacin recommends that theme and plugin authors should be testing their work by now so that compatibility issues can be caught before the public release.
The features to test and work with are the same as the ones listed during the first beta, so keep those in mind while you work with the new version..
This marks another step toward the full release of 3.2, which we’ve been closely documenting as it progresses. You can help prepare the software for a full public release by either update your test install via SVN or by downloading it directly. See Nacin’s blog post for more information regarding testing WordPress and reporting any bugs you might find.
We’ll be seeing a full public release of WordPress 3.2 soon. Are you ready?
The second release candidate of WordPress 3.2 is out. Just dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s at this point. #socloseicanfeelit
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By Ryan Imel on June 24, 2011
The team behind ManageWP.
The ManageWP service is now managing over 20,000 WordPress blogs. ManageWP went into beta around 6 months ago and allows users to manage multiple WordPress blogs from one Dashboard.
In the last major updates to the service they added support for Google Analytics and the ability to check your blog’s capability for WordPress 3.2. According to Managing Director Vladimir Prelovac future updates will allow for scheduled backups to Amazon S3 and Dropbox.
The service is currently in beta and free, allowing up to 250 websites to be managed from one Dashboard at a time. Check out their tour video just past the jump to get an idea for what it does.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Do you use ManageWP or a similar tool to manage WordPress blogs? If not, what would you recommend to manage hundreds of individual WordPress sites?
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By Ryan Imel on June 24, 2011
Dre Armeda of Sucuri Security has recommended against using the WP-phpmyadmin plugin for security reasons. According to Armeda his security team has seen multiple sites hacked via the plugin and are still investigating the issue. The plugin was developed four years ago to incorporate phpMyAdmin directly into the WordPress Dashboard.
The plugin is currently not in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory as it was removed for potentially exposing server information when using the plugin. While no one can download the plugin now, its still possible you could be running the plugin.
Armeda also recommends Sucuri’s sitecheck tool to determine whether your site is currently compromised, by WP-phpmyadmin or anything else.
Have you ever use the WP-phpmyadmin plugin? Have you ever run into a security issue on your site that was introduced by a plugin?
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