WordPress Version 2.9 New Features
New Features
User Features
* Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and
permanent delete)
* Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to
(Gallery
Shortcode)
* Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
* Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
* ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
* Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin
and Theme editors
* Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default
themes sidebar template file
* Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
* Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as
well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
* Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as
‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
* Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
* Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in
installation
* Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
* Remove Sphere from search list
* Minify admin CSS
* Show correct max upload filesize error message
* Add ‘rel’ attribute to next/previous post links
* Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
* Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add
‘spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
* Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately
after entering post title
* Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
* Define ‘$content_width’ for Kubrick
* Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
* Display comments in descending date order, consistently
* Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Press This bookmarklet fixes
* Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at
the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
* Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as
“Front page”
* Image editing
* Retire BunnyTags importer
* Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
* Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated
permalinks
* Update SimplePie to 1.2
* Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
* Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed
discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
* TinyMCE 3.2.7
* Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
* Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
* Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash’ or
delete depending on the screen
* Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
* Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace
period
* Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the
Saved/Updated message
* Separate fields for ‘image alt’ and ‘image caption’ in Media uploader
* Display better information about broken themes when there is no
stylesheet
* Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were
‘corrupt’ new installation message was offered. Add means of
automatically repairing tables
* Export and import custom taxonomies
* Admin copy improvements
* Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a
subdirectory
* Make codex link open in a new window
* Change ‘Remove’ link on widgets to ‘Delete’ because it doesn’t
just remove it, it deletes the settings for that widget instance.
Development, Themes, Plugins
* Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which
allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
* Add ‘smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
* Canonical redirects for post name queries
* Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
* Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no
children found
* Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
* Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
* Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
* Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
* Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
* ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter
* Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that
are arrays
* Support for new post types
* Respect custom post_type in queries
* Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
* Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
* Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
* Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
* Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
* Speed up jQuery based scripts
* Use the current user as author for autosave
* Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users
without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
* Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
* Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
* Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations
functions file
* Machine parseable db error codes
* Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
* Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
* Make option_name the primary key for the options table
* Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
* Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
* Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number’ filter
* Always filter the url in the media upload form
* Add a ‘the_terms’ filter
* is_blog_installed() improvements
* Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
* Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme
in auth_redirect()
* Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
* phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
* Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a
generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
* Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce
sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
* Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
* Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
* Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages’ filter
* Actions for taxonomy updates
* Key should be ‘comment_id’ not ‘post_id’ in comments table
* Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
* Add ‘separator’ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and
wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
* Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
* Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
* Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
* Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and
get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss()
with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the
rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content()
was previously used in feeds.
* Add ‘pad_counts’ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
* Remove codepress
* Remove the php-gettext library
* Canonical post thumbanils
* Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
* Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and
tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
* Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a
wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes.
Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
* Add set_user_role action hook
* Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
* Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
* Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields
captured from plugin and theme headers
* Merge updated pomo code
* Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
* Improve wptexturize performance
* Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers
to allow for different grammatical gender
* Fixes for theme subdir support
* Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering
unescaped data
* Add ‘orderby=comment_count’ argument to query_posts()
* Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
* Allow querying multiple post types
* Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and
current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme
support for various features
* Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
* Add number of Embed related filters
* Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save
or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
* Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have
their own translation files
* Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
* Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
* Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a
variety of flexible ways
* Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
* Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page
publishing/submitting
* Standardize on ‘user_id’ instead of ‘user_ID’ when passing comment
data. Accept either ‘user_id’ or ‘user_ID’. Remove ‘user_id’ global.
* Filter imported comments
* Introducing set_post_image_size(w, h, crop) so themes can register
their special size/crop for canonical post images
* Standardize around “post image” instead of “post thumbnail”
* Allow registering post image support per post type
* Return false from is_paged() if on the first page.
* Check MySQL and PHP versions when auto upgrading
* Add required php and mysql versions to version.php
* Hard code required version in update-core.php
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Dwayne Myers
(386)307-4289
Http://www.DreamDrivenDesigns.com
> chau wrote:
> > Hi Dwayne,
> > I’m just wondering if you can show me how to loop a post so it can
> > appear on a PAGE that I wanted to be on. I know there’s a side bar
> > options for widgets where you can place your latest post but I only
> > wanted certain Page to have the post and not every page. Do you kind
> > of understand what I’m trying to do? Please help, Thanks Chau
Here you go, I can walk you through the coding to get that post in post but I have a custom wordpress plugin I use sometimes to make things go faster. I’ll send to your email as we talked in the phone session (btw thanks).
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Dwayne Myers
DreamDrivenDesigns.com
386.307.4289
1. Create link clusters within your blog
A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search engine ranking. Let’s say you have a post that’s ranked for ’stupid business ideas’. Edit 10 of your other posts to create links (using ’stupid business ideas’ as the anchor text) to the ’stupid business ideas’ post and you will surely move up in Google for that keyword. This process can be implemented in about 10 minutes and can be used for any keyword your site ranks for or is trying to rank for.
2. Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts
By watching your stats, you can often identify posts that get search traffic from a keyword, even though the keyword isn’t listed in the HTML title of the post. By editing your posts’ HTML titles to add the keywords they cover, you can strengthen the rankings and therefore the traffic that the post generates. You can easily make a difference with this method in less than 20 minutes. This method combines very well with #1.
3. Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook
You can never ever have too many friends on SU and Facebook. Inviting existing readers to find you on these services with a post should take less than 20 minutes.
4. Save your best posts for the best times of the week
Writing a home-run post on a Saturday afternoon will probably happen from time to time. However, does your blog have good traffic on Saturdays? Analyzing your blog’s stats to determine when it naturally has the most traffic can get more eyes on a great post, which will translate to more social votes and more links. If you have created the post of your life, wait for a good day to publish – it will cost you about 1 minute on a later date to put it up.
5. Edit your post one more time
How can you improve your title? How can you improve your first paragraph? Small details in your post, especially in the beginning of your post, can make an enormous difference in its ability to draw social traffic and links. You can definitely improve your title, first paragraph, formatting, and grammar within 30 minutes.
6. Stop writing about yourself. Start solving problems
Surfers become readers when a blog provides something that is wanted. A casual visitor may read your blog because they find training, answers to problems, entertainment, or something else they want. This more than likely will mean that they won’t want to read about you, your girlfriend, your cats, your kids, or your catastrophes (unless you have a personal blog that your friends read). Discontinuing the off-topic posts will help you to develop more repeat traffic and takes exactly 0 minutes to implement.
7. Subscribe to the feeds of your industry’s major players
That way, you won’t miss important news releases. When news breaks in your industry, there will be a lot of extra traffic searching for information on the event. Adding your thoughts will almost always generate extra traffic. Subscribing to the feeds of your industry’s top sites should take no more than 15 minutes.
8. Give a great post to a prominent blog
Let’s say that you took the time to write something great. Donating your post to a great blogger can help you to create a win-win. The great blogger gets a great piece of content that will bring him social traffic and links and you can create exposure for your name and brand. Emailing your post to a great blogger or blog takes less than 10 minutes.
9. Go to the store
Look at magazines. Pay special attention to the types of titles that are used on the covers. Write down the most interesting titles and think about what makes them interesting. In order to generate buzz around a post, a great title is an absolute necessity. More on this topic here: You should be able to find some good title ideas in about 30 minutes.
10. Answer your email and comment questions
Nothing will show a reader that you care more than answering an question (even if you have already answered that question 100 times on your site). Why do people read your blog? Because you solve their problems. Why will they come back again and again to your blog? Because you solve their problems. Answering a person’s email or comment question should take less than 5 minutes.