“I’m proud to announce the new and improved, Word/Image Count Plug-In for WordPress 1.2.” Four steps.

Rafe Colburn on Java and PHP.

My honest opinion: Scrivs, we get it, you’re controversial. It’s a good way to get links, but use it too often and you become the designer who cried wolf and people start to tune out. Critiques are good, but there’s a difference between ranting, constructive criticism, and stop energy. Criticism between friends is usually just that, between friends. It takes on a whole new dimension when it’s in the public eye.

Anne asks “May a webpage use H1 multiple times within the same page?” He helped me proof the new WordPress readme before the 1.2 release and mentioned this.

Adam updates Textile 2 for WordPress. Apparently the plugin we included with 1.2 doesn’t have all the features the perl version does. We’ll have to roll this in.

The pinging continues. If you haven’t set http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ to be your default ping in your blog software yet, why not?

Nice Thunderbird theme called Charmel. Best I’ve used. Hat tip: Rick Yribe

Shelley says, “It’s odd, but when I first switched from Movable Type to WordPress, I also thought the interface was ‘unpolished’.” This is a common first impression but an uncommon lasting impression. What could be done to make WordPress a little snazzier for first-time users without compromising the speed and elegance long-time users appreciate?

How to ping Ping-o-Matic in Movable Type. Nice looking blog too.

JournURL is auto-pinging the Ping-o-Matic RPC interface by default. Awesome, and should result in much faster service for JournURL users.

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Even better the upgrade of the site to the new version is now complete. It took all of 30 seconds to do. Only well written software can make things that easy.”

Brad Froehle » Switch to WordPress
“Let me tell you that right now it’s the slickest thing I’ve used.”

Zen, and the Art of Blogging » Upgraded to WordPress 1.2. “That’s right, they’re making it even easier for you to switch from your old blog software to WordPress.”

This review could be in a good magazine it’s so thorough and surprisingly insightful for someone who has only been using WordPress for a bit. Not distributing language files was actually on purpose. Once more translatations are published and checked we’ll include a few of the most popular with the distribution and make the rest available for download. I’m always annoyed when I download a package where the language files are bigger than hte app itself, and I’m going to use one.

Favorite PHP Editor, I realized again today that I have Dreamweaver open more than Thunderbird. It works, but it often feels clunky or like I’m fighting the program. I’m going to check out a few of the options from this thread.

Tim Bray on Vonage. I’ve been happy with my Vonage phone, which I’ve had since around December. The only problem is it seems to have to go in front of my router, and the double NAT makes a lot of things tricky. Also my box is really tiny, not sure why he says they have to get smaller.

“In a relatively short space of time, WordPress has evolved into the perfect blogging tool for the experienced web user, and even for the web novice.”

My experiences writing Joel on Software, a post from 2000 when Joel was using Manilla to run his weblog. Replies from Brent Simmons, Wesley Felter, and Dave Winer.

Matthew Thomas » Interface design in WordPress 1.2. If you think the new options are nice, wait to you see some of the other stuff mpt is bugging me to do. 🙂 We’re very lucky to have this guy around. Don’t believe anyone who tells you UI is easy. Matthew spent a lot of time designing everything and it took me an order of magnitude longer than I expected to implement most of it. (The last 10% will take even longer.)

intraordinary » yes, it’s about time. “We’ve added so much stuff, it’s almost like a 2.0 version, except that your 1.0 templates should still work.”