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So far as I have tested, all themes appear compatible with WordPress version 2.7 in their current versions – if you do find anything, please let me know. There may be a few advanced features unavailable as yet, due to the relevant template tags not yet catered for.
The question of whether you want to run 2.7 or not, I think is an open one – there seems no change in the overall situation following 2.5 and 2.6, just different admin bugs  – image rollovers on the admin submit buttons aren’t right, Firefox 2,3, 800px resolution and the media uploads aren’t happy with Windows-version PHP.  Linux, good, but that isn’t everybody, unfortunately…

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WordPress 2.7 update

Still on the search for a SEO plugin for WordPress that gives the extras that might be needed for clients – without removing the flexibility, such as there is, even further from the standard setup of page titles, digests etc.

This one isn’t bad – wpSEO – although the page is German, which might put some off – no need to worry, it’s got the language files – and all the usual SEO stuff – duplicate content elimination, customised meta tags / page titles.

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SEO plugin

With the imminent arrival of WordPress 2.7, there will be significant changes, most particularly to the way a theme brings comments to the page.

As it seems at present, all themes produced prior to WP 2.7 will be rendered obsolete – in the sense of not producing the full 2.7 functionality… whether you may want this, another matter…

We will be working through the back catalogue, and bringing all themes to WP2.7 capability. By the nature of things, this isn’t going to be happening overnight…

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WordPress 2.7 arrival

If you write a blog post that links to another blog post (or sometimes just web page) and you have everything set up right, a pingback sends a notification to that target blog with information about your post.

A trackback can be sent even if you don’t link to the target post – you have to enter the ‘trackback url’ of the target blog post in the relevant input field (’Send trackbacks to’) when writing your post – which will give the same result. A blog will generally supply the link location for trackbacks to its posts.
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WordPress Pingbacks and Trackbacks – what?s the difference?

Whether progress in WordPress development continues at the same pace or not, the issue of the capability of a theme to display all new functions, template tags etc, is a live one.

Referred to as compatibility, this perhaps isn’t quite accurate – a theme will (should) work with a range of WordPress versions, (for various reasons, good and bad, we don’t all heed the so-named ‘required’ updates) – however, the question is whether a theme will supply all the functionality of an installed version of WordPress.
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WordPress Functions and Versioning

So Google springs a minor suprise, with an update of public PR after approx 2 months, rather than the 3 months we had become accustomed to. This after the rather wayward schedule of 2007.

And so the (conspiracy) theories come out of the woodwork.
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Google Public PageRank Update

Becoming fractionally tired of these Twitter API limits, which seem to lock everything down fairly early on the day and keep everything slow thereafter.

The canard, (and I’m sure it is only that), that Twitter is a bit wonky due to the Ruby becomes self-fulfilling publicity, simply due to the prominence and focus of the site… which is distinctly unfortunate.

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Twitter API limits

It seems ‘official’ – poor honest WordPress Theme designers have a load more work in prospect to drag their themes into compatibility with the projected 2.7 version.

Where this all fits with the discussion about Intense Debate still isn’t elucidated – fair enough, this is a major issue and not going to be decided and promulgated in a week or so.
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WordPress 2.7 Comments

WordPress has jQuery in it – it’s what makes the AJAX in the admin do its stuff and is there to be ‘re-used’ in any site customisations you fancy.

jQuery now announce that Nokia and Microsoft are including the into their official application development platform.
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WordPress, jQuery and Microsoft

Having followed the progress of a fair few WP sites, some thoughts on the subject of SEO for WordPress.

It shouldn’t really be simpler – at the time of writing, for the ’standard blog’ – whatever that might mean – the default WordPress install works just fine. This could change, either on the WordPress side, or by any popular search engine radically changing the way they do things, but not so likely…

You can get into more of a mess by messing with the default, than leaving well alone.
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WordPress Simple SEO

StayPressed is a free WordPress theme, with a double-column right hand-sidebar and a magazine style – kept simple, to let your blog content do the talking…

Colors: brick red, green, white
Widget Ready: Yes
Width: Fixed

This theme has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.
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Free WordPress Theme: StayPressed

So it’s the first 5000 lucky punters in the survey – that’s how it works… And this exercise in focus group ‘democracy’, well, that has a nice feel, does it not? (more…)

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WordPress 2.7 User Interface survey

WP MarkItUp is not bad at all… Runs on the standard MarkItUp code, driven by jQuery and is a WP plugin.

Tried it out by bodging in a Paypal “buy now” button to the editor, and it does ok, and would make putting in various extra functions of this sort a reasonably modular experience for the average programmer.

If you do know what you’re doing with javascript/AJAX, not sure it’s a necessary replacement, but it might provide a conduit for cleaning up the editor/quicktags functions, never-ending…

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Wordpress Plugin – WP MarkItUp

Many comments on the recent acquisition by Automattic of Intense Debate  – or just the comments system thereof – whichever being the case is slightly glossed depending on the source.

And, hey presto, many comments of the “it’s so kewl variety”

The assumption at present is, perhaps, that this is a wordpress.com deal, and not in the first instance a wordpress.org thing – some noises about a plugin… alternatively, it’s an integral part of 2.7 and arriving near you next month…  it’s wait and see.

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WordPress and Intense Debate Commenting

Alpen 3column – a completely updated version of the 2 column theme – this time with a two column right hand-sidebar, both enabled for widgets. In addition, the theme now has post comments separated from pingback/trackbacks and support for gravatars.

The theme has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.
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Free WordPress Theme: Alpen 3column