So a new version of wordpress for android was released. I’m trying out the schedule post

This should auto post at 3pm.

—Posted from WordPress for Android

I’ve had a few questions sent in to me, asking how I got my Tweetmeme and Facebook Share buttons back on WordPress 2.9.

Here’s how I did it.

First of all, Setup Tweetmeme and Facebook share to “Manual” on the settings page for the plugin.

Edit your themes ‘index.php’ and ‘single.php’

find something like

<?php the_content(__(‘Continue Reading &raquo;’)); ?>

And replace it with something like

<?php echo tweetmeme(); echo fbshare_manual(); the_content(__(‘Continue Reading &raquo;’)); ?>

There maybe other files that need to be modified in order to display the buttons on archive pages if you theme has them.

From what I can gather this is only an issue for sites running less than PHP 5.2 – Can anyone let me know if this is an issue on PHP 5.2.

I have sent emails to the authors but have not received a response from either.

Well, with the pending release of WordPress 2.9 things are looking good on the WordPress front.

As you may know, I’ve been running WordPress 2.9-rare for quite a while and have since gone through the beta releases and now one of my sites is sitting on WordPress 2.9-RC1.

While it took me some time to get use to the new ‘Trash’ feature and having to remember to empty it. I have a couple of plugin issues with Tweetmeme and Facebook Share (new) but other than those buttons no longer displaying on 2.9 due to some code changes, I’m liking the new version. Hopefully plugin developers will sort out the issues. If not then loosing a couple of plugins really isn’t an issue for me.

The new wp.me url shortening in WordPress.com stats is pretty cool, though for me what would be even cooler is the ability to auto tweet using the wp.me short url, but that’s a minor thing really.

So, all in all. I think a WP 2.9 release is going to be a pretty cool Christmas present from the Automattic team.

If you want to try WordPress 2.9-RC1 you can download it here.

Well well, What do you know, the Podpress developer has come out of the wood work and announced that Podpress is back under development.

I’m sorry, 2 years of nothing from a developer I would consider it abandoned. In fact I had. I switched to Blubrry Powerpress not long after the WordPress 2.7.1 update by memory. May have even been earlier than that.

Would I go back to a package that had been abandoned for 2 years? Hell no! What’s to say in 6 months time the same thing doesn’t happen again. Then I’d be at square one again with a plugin that’s not going to be fixed / upgraded if problems arise.

I’m firmly sticking with the @blubrry Powerpress plugin. The blubrry powerpress team have a vested interest in maintaining their plugin. Not only that, their support is second to none and their services are just the icing on the cake.

Honestly I would not trust a wordpress plugin that has a history of being abandoned to control my podcasting feeds or iTunes info. But that’s just me.

I have no problem if those people who are die hard fans of podpress run it, Great there’s nothing wrong with multiple podcasting plugins for wordpress. In fact I’m sure it just makes Powerpress even more powerful and more advanced than those already out there

Well, @blubrry have done it again. The team at blubrry have superseded all expectations once again.

I’m one of the lucky ones who get to test Powerpress 1.0.0beta before it’s official release and what can I say. There are some really cool new features and the layout is just awesome.

The powerpress podcast plugin has just taken WordPress Podcasting to the next level.

  Angelo has done an excellent job with the new features, I think alot of people will be scrambling to migrate to Powerpress 1.0 when it is released.

I’ve installed the new Beta of Powerpress on this site and my other business / primary podcast sites.

While I’m not sure if I’m going to be using the Premium Content Feed capabilities initially, it’s nice to be able to have the option for the future. Especially with one of my podcasts, I can see the benefit of “premium content” in the future.

What else can I say, If you’re looking at setting up a podcast on WordPress, or you already have a podcast setup with WordPress, You’d be silly not to at least give Powerpress 1.0 a look in when it is released.

No other WordPress podcast plugin is evolving as fast as Powerpress. The support from the @blubrry team is outstanding.

For those that are hell bent on the likes of Podpress or Podcasting, I think you’ll be impressed with Powerpress 1.0

Ok, So I setup a podcast on a business website of ours. I found what I thought was a great plugin for WordPress which in turn I liked. It had nice setup features and good player placement customization.

I then started to think, maybe some of the others are better.

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I’ve just installed WordPress MU on blogit.co.nz, Having done so I’m now migrating my Blogs as well as setting up some others for family members.

I am extremely impressed with WordPress MU. I kind of wish I started with it earlier.

I hope to get everything migrated over to this site over the next few days. So keep an eye on this one.

I happened to be playing around with Word 2007 with WordPress again on another website I have setup. While I was playing, I stumbled across the insert category and it had 1 lists (there are at least 5 categories on the site) but the only one listed in Word 2007 was the "Description" of the only one that has a description. J

So, All in all. Word 2007 can deal with Categories from WordPress sites. But for it to do so, you need to have descriptions in each category on the site.

I’m still trying to figure out how or if, I can add tags to posts. Surely there must be a way of doing it. Anyone know? J

Ok, so I finally upgraded my old Office XP to Office 2007 J Have to admit, I am impressed so far.

It is taking a little bit to get use to the new look of Office compared to my old XP. Anyway I thought I’d try the Blog ability from Word 2007 to see how well it works with WordPress.

All going well this should look ok.

Ok, Just editing with Windows Live Writer. Not sure how / if I can add to specific categories or add tags yet.. But it does seem to work ok for basics.

Well, I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.7, and I have to say. I am extremely impressed with the new design of the dashboard.

It’s ease of use makes it so much quicker and easier to administer my blog.

While I still use Windows Live Writer to publish blog entries. The QuickPress appears to be lacking an option to select a category for the entry but I’ll have a play with it at some stage to see how it goes for adding entries on the fly.

I found this cool video on WordPress.org which does a quick show case of the dashboard.