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To be harsher on comment spam (no follow really increases that crap!) I’ve decided to use a plug-in to stop comments from being posted on posts older than 30 days. I am also going to delete all the comments in my ‘moderation queue’, sorry about that if you wrote an essay

This plug-in to block comments after 30 days was quite difficult to find, the main result on google was to a deleted plug-in (BRILLIANT!) So incase you googled over here, this is the Close Old Posts plug-in you want.

There doesn’t seem to be long before the next major release of Wordpress — version 2.5. Originally planned for release on the 10th of March, it seems that Wordpress 2.5 is not far away. Looks like I might have an interesting couple of weeks (if I choose to ignore revision, which is bound to happen;) with the possible releases of Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Wordpress 2.5. For whatever reason the developers decided to ignore 2.4, I guess this was intended to make the release seem more important.

Wordpress 2.5 does feature major changes in the Dashboard and ‘Write’ pages, but nothing there really interests me. It will probably be easier to navigate, but I don’t find the current solution to be cumbersome. Here are the major changes:

• Faster load times.
• Multi-file uploads.
• Customisable Dashboard
• New “Media Manager” for images, audio, video, etc.
• Built-in gallery function.
• Built-in (and pluggable) Gravatars support.
• One-click auto-update for plug-ins.
• Reactivate plugins after a ‘Deactivate All Plug-ins’ action.
• Tag management

Notice the one in bold? (I really hope you did, otherwise you might want to see an optician.) Yep, a built-in gallery! Now I don’t need to bother with setting up Gallery2, or any other Gallery plugin. Wordpress will have the function straight out of the box, except it doesn’t come in a box… So when the stable version of 2.5 is released, and Dreamhost get round to supporting it, I’ll happily move over for the gallery alone. The other features all sound nice (who doesn’t like faster load times?) but nothing else really sounds groundbreaking. I wonder how the many Gallery plug-ins will react, will we see some improvements being made to them, to warrant their installation? Or will they just die out (well, the Wordpress forks.)

Not sure how, but the cacheing seems to be weird. I might need to sort out the settings, I’ve lost a post thanks to it… and you might not even see this one for sometime…

Great!

I definitely need to do some more work on this site, but for now I am waiting on my domain name to spread across the internet. For one, does anybody keep this theme for longer than 5 minutes? Probably not, I may have to go against that trend (6 minutes here we come!) More plugins would be nice too, but most of them look better with a populated site, such as the archive and recent comments plugins.

Anyway, I do love this wysiwyg (wizzywig!) posting thing, makes Postnuke look around 10 years out of date. Didn’t the News Pro (is that even the name?) script have this is like 1997 or so?