Wordpress by Examples

Seems my announcement about the new Wordpress release 2.2 was a bit premature. Wordpress team has announced that the latest release will be delayed as far as June.

Meanwhile, if you’re using Wordpress 2.0.x or 2.1.x), it is advisable that you upgrade the installation to the latest bugfix release (2.0.10, 2.1.3) to avoid your site from being compromised. Trust me, I heard about compromised Wordpress installation all because the owner refuse to upgrade to the latest release.

It’s just another 3 days worth of waiting for the latest major wordpress release to come out. The Wordpress 2.2 will spot :

The much awaited ATOM 1.0 feed support
• ATOM API support (much like blogger.com ATOM API)
• Improved comment editing
• PHPMailer integration for performance and reliability of SMTP mailing feature
• New XML-RPC API for pages
• Widgetized default themes

Feels like earlier this year since Wordpress made the last major release of its popular blogging platform (2.1 Ella). Oh no wait, it is earlier this year! Boy, wordpress team is so much productive compared to other open source cms projects.

Wait for the official release of Wordpress 2.2 on 24 April 2007.

Darren Rowse the problogger has written an article about the importance of making your RSS feeds pops out.

This is vital because an easily identifiable RSS feeds can quickly catch the eye of a casual reader, effectively increasing your readers base.

What makes RSS feeds pops?
RSS feeds that pops is a syndication feed which has extra bling on it, such as extra styling and images achievable through the use of clever css/xsl stylesheet and images.

These will sufficiently make your RSS feeds different from others and will be one of the factor that attract them to subscribe your feeds, which will increase your readers.

Here’s the link to the related howto make your Wordpress RSS feeds ‘POP’ :

• How to Make your RSS Feeds Pop in Wordpress
• WordPress Feed Styler
• how to make your RSS feeds POP

Hope you will find it useful…