By Ryan Imel on June 22, 2011
Keith Olbermann is an American political commentator and writer who recently started up a new-yet-old show on Current TV called Countdown with Keith Olbermann. This new show brings with it a fresh website, which just so happens to be running a WordPress theme built on top of Twenty Ten, designed and developed by a shop called Code and Theory.
Aside from Twenty Ten, according to the source code the site is running the Super Cache and Pods plugins as well.
Olberman’s last episode of Countdown on NBC was January 21, 2011. It was soon announced that Olberman would be taking a position at Current TV, with a show of the same name.
This isn’t the first political commentator we’ve seen using WordPress for their show or promotion. Are there others we’ve missed that you’ve seen?
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By Ryan Imel on June 22, 2011
In the spirit of the experimental nature of things like Gmail Labs and WordPress’ own UI Labs plugin, Paul Gibbs has released the BP Labs plugin to test out Gibbs’ own features before they (potentially) hit core.
This first version of the plugin includes “@ mention” autosuggestions (completing usernames as you type them) and a quick admin for the group directory, with more to come. Gibbs is a core dev for BuddyPress but was clear that the feature experiments in BuddyPress Labs are his own.
The plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin directory, but will (obviously) require BuddyPress to function. You can receive support for the plugin and learn more on BuddyPress.org.
Autosuggestions (top) and Group quick admin (below) in the BP Labs plugin.
Posted in News | Tagged BuddyPress, Plugins |
By Ryan Imel on June 22, 2011
Today’s Daily Plugin is called Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments. This plugin is admin-only, and makes a small tweak to how the Recent Comments Dashboard widget behaves. Who doesn’t love a small tweak to their dashboard?
The video is embedded at the top of this post’s page, with more about the plugin below.
Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments
Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments makes it possible to expand each comment previewed in the Dashboard Recent Comments widget, instead of clicking through to the full comment screen on the admin. While it might seem like a very small tweak, if you deal with a good number of comments (particularly from authors who like to share a good deal of thoughts on your posts) then this could easily save you a number of extra clicks when approving and responding to comments.
Video recorded with a modified version 1.3 of Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments, running WordPress 3.1.3.
About the plugin author
This plugin is developed by Scott Reilly (or coffee2code on WordPress.org). He has developed a number of plugins there, and he also blogs and tweets.
Is your plugin worthy?
If you would like to see your plugin featured on an episode of The Daily Plugin, send your plugin information over to dailyplugin@wpcandy.com. We’ll see you tomorrow for another Daily Plugin!
Posted in The Daily Plugin | Tagged Plugins |
By Justin Rouch on June 21, 2011
In a new push for security, Google has begun notifying users that are running outdated versions of WordPress to update their installs. Those with outdated installs are receiving notifications via their Google Webmaster Tools account as well as by email.
Any security buff will tell you that rule zero is to keep your software updated, which this obviously will help with. Older versions of WordPress are, in all cases, less secure than the current version.
Mark Jaquith and other WordPress contributors have been working directly with Google to enable this functionality, and encourage others to join in the effort:
Worked with Google to get Webmaster Tools to tell you if your WordPress install is out of date. http://t.co/ZGGKHEL Web hosts: join in! What do you think about Google’s new effort regarding WordPress versions and security? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.
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By Justin Rouch on June 21, 2011
Jane Wells, “Master of Suggestion” at Automattic is looking to collect a little data from the WordPress community. In a survey she posted on Polldaddy, she’s asking for answers in response to six questions. They range from your age when you first contributed to the WordPress open source project to your age when you were first interested in computers. All answers are anonymous, and will likely look really awesome in a future chart of some sort.
Are you a contributor on the WordPress project yet? Then head over to the survey and take it. If not, what’s holding you back?
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