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WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2

David Peralty — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:30:15 +0000

Beta 2 is here. Get it while it’s…still not quite out of Beta…or something.
From the WordPress.org Dev Blog…

Notable fixes in beta 2:
* Translation of role names fixed
* wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user speci

WordPress MU 2.8 Not-Really-Beta

Thord Hedengren — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:00:45 +0000

It is not just regular WordPress that is closing in on version 2.8, the multiuser variant, called WordPress MU, is being updated as well. Donncha O Caoimh announced the changes, so far just available from the trunk, but there nonetheless. I merged...

WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 Released

Thord Hedengren — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:00:58 +0000

I hope you all played with beta 2 of WordPress 2.8 this weekend, because I sure didn’t for once. If you already ran beta 1 you might want to know about the changes that has been implemented. And if you’re just curious about what’s...

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 Is Out Now

Thord Hedengren — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:26:52 +0000

Over at the WordPress development blog, we can read about the first beta of WordPress 2.8. If you’re the tinkering type, do give it a go and help kill all the nasty errors that inevitably have snuck in there. There is no release date for the...

Google developing category filtering for AdSense ads

Andy Merrett — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:01:19 +0000

Google has announced that it’s launched limited beta testing of a new feature: the ability to filter certain categories of advertising so that they don’t appear on a publisher’s site at all. Google says that this is one of the top...

Twitpay comes out of beta: send money via Twitter

Andy Merrett — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:47:44 +0000

Twitpay, the service which allows you to initiate payments to any user via Twitter, has just come out of beta and is now available for anyone to use. The concept is as simple as posting a tweet that reads something like “@ev twitpay $1...

Is Your Blog Ready For Internet Explorer 8?

Thord Hedengren — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:06:52 +0000

Microsoft released the first release candidate of their web browser, Internet Explorer 8, today. This means that they’re not too far from releasing it to the public. If you run a self-hosted blog, you should download the release candidate to...

Artiklz “Conversation Search Engine” launches beta

Andy Merrett — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:22:31 +0000

Artiklz is a new search engine designed specifically to index the information, opinion and comments contained in blogs, social media and bookmarking sites. Launched on Wednesday as a public beta, the service describes itself as a “conversational...

European PS3 Owners Raise Ire Over SCEE Treatment of Home

Joe Haygood — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:26:16 +0000

One of our readers sent in a link to a thread over in the European Sony forums, and their current outrage over the treatment of Home in Europe. It seems that right now, Home is far more broken than it is here in the states. Also, European...

What Does Beta Mean to You?

Kevin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:16:29 +0000

Software or webapps in a “beta” phase should, according to tradition, not pick up any major features, and should be going through community testing mostly to work out kinks and...