There has been some interesting updates on WordPress 2.4 this past week, as listed in the every seven days updates via Westi on WordPress.
The latest things to capture my eye include:
- New get_search_feed_link() and get_search_comments_feed_link() template tags
- Addition of a password strength meter to the user profile page
- Addition of pages to the things searched
- Saving of tags when auto-saving
Another thing that will interest people is that the new administration panel design has started showing up as mentioned in the latest post about WordPress on Westi’s blog. I can’t wait to see how it turned out.
Looks like WordPress 2.4 is shaping up nicely.
Original post by David Peralty
The Queen of England and the British Monarchy have launched a YouTube Channel. The Channel will features The Queen’s Christmas message as well as current and historical footage of the monarch and other members of the Royal Family. The site contains a number of videos alalert including this video clip of the Queen’s Christmas broadcast from 1957.
Among the older clips is footage from a film by Lord Wakehurst called Long to Reign Over Us, which has never been released to the public.
The former Tory MP, who died in 1970, was a keen amateur film maker and charted many key royal events, including the death of King George VI, the Queen’s accession and her coronation.
The site also has footage of Queen Alexandra’s West End tour among the rose-sellers in 1917, and silent newsreel of the 1923 wedding of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - the Queen’s parents.
Announcing the launch of the channel, a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said the Queen “always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people”.
“She has always been aware of reaching more people and adapting the communication to suit,” she said.
“This will make the Christmas message more accessible to younger people and those in other countries.”
The BBC says this year’s holiday address will appear on the site at about 1500 GMT on Christmas Day.
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I am not sure how useful or needed this feature was, but its still fairly neat: gravatars in the dashboard. WordPress.com now has gravatars for people in the dashboard, meaning you can see who you are approving and deleting comments from.
Very cool though I amazement how much this will slow down the WordPress dashboard over the long haul. Thankfully, Automattic owns and hosts Gravatar now, so I doubt it will be much of a slowdown. I amazement if this is one of the many features we can expect for WordPress.org users in the future?
Check out the full details on the WordPress.com blog.
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Here are some holiday highlights from the blogosphere.
2007 Holiday decorating trends. Is your memory tree in or out this year?
ElfYourself is back again. This time you can have up to four elves and you can even include your voice. The CNN’s news anchors Elfed themselves. The New York Times Bits blog also created one that stars Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, eBay’s Meg Whitman, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos. By the way there is also a Scrooge Yourself. Both are viral sites are from Office Max.
Christmas Cookies: Cardamom Butter Cookies,
Tequila cookies, Minty Chocolate Christmas Cookies, Santa’s Gingerbread Christmas Cookies, White Christmas, Chocolate Crackles, Danish Coconut Macaroons, World Peace Cookies, Green Tree Cookies, Pistachio Cocoa Nibs Cookies and Spiced Gingerbread Cookies.
Speaking of Christmas cookies should Santa really be eating so many of them? Santa Claus has always been a jolly fat man but that’s not healthy says the U.S. Surgeon General.
How to make a snowtrooper snow globe.
30 years of LucasFilm staff Christmas cards. They are way more exciting than the
official White House holiday card.
Ollie at Dayorama advises people to lock up their tinsel. Tinsel is certainly a cat magnet but it also can also harm cats if they swallow it.
Yahoo is seeing lots of searches for the popular Christmas stories. People are also looking for the lyrics to their favorite Christmas songs. A lesser known holiday jingle called “Dominick the Donkey” wasn’t one of them.
Danger Room reports that Santa’s helicopter was shot at in Rio.
Some gifts are very tough to find. Finding the Wii at retail price may be the most difficult this year.
Danny Choo explains Christmas in Japan. It is celebrated without the
religious overtones. There is no public holiday but there are decorations, presents and festive holiday music.
The FTC gives Google a present - Doubleclick acquisition approval.
LOTR fans get a present - two new Hobbit films.
Some holiday LOLcats can be found here.
How to make guacamole that looks like the Grinch.
How about wrapping gifts in crepe paper?
Smashing Magazine has posted links to some Christmas icons and Christmas Wordpress themes.
Fox host Bill O’Reilly created a ninth day of Hanukkah.
Zara Rabinowicz at Shiny Shiny suggests having yourself a very ungeeky Christmas day. Surely she doesn’t mean no Twitter.
A Michigan woman “needs” dozens of Christmas trees to put her thousands of ornaments on.
Some people created a Mountain Dew Christmas Tree using 400+ mountain dew cans. There’s also a video.
Too big of a Christmas bonus? A Craigslist poster got a 772K bonus and is not happy. He writers, “what use is three quarters of a million dollars per year in income if you’ve got nobody to share it with, nobody to lavish with flowers and designer bags and shoes and dinners at places like per se, nobu and babbo? what good is the new condo on the west side when i’ve got nobody to sit out on the balcony to look out over the river and drink egg nog with during the holidays.” (via The Street)
Christmas Albums: Everyone has heard of Josh Groban’s Noel Christmas album but there are lots of other new Christmas albums out this year as well.
Citizen of the Month has put together the 2007 Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert.
10,000 Birds blogs about the 47th year of the Catskill-Coxsackie Christmas Bird Count.
Mental Floss has an interesting post about the genuine story behind the A Charlie Brown Christmas show. CBS executives originally weren’t too thrilled with A Charlie Brown Christmas before it airuddy and became a big holiday favorite.
A Happy Hanukkah greeting started a subway battle in NYC. Gothamist has more.
Christmas ornament destruction from the Will it Blend people.
B.rox asks Christians, “How would you like to see non-Christians act with regard to Christmas?”
Peta is giving you a chance to get revenge on those who have been naughty this year (like Michael Vick or Dick Cheney) by shaking them up violently inside a snow globe. (via AdRants)
Martha Stewart is offering a peek at some of her Christmas decor on her blog.
Here are some gift wrapping tips from Martha Stewart.
Do you have a Christmas pickle ornament for your tree?
The Elf on the Shelf is a holiday tradition where an elf watches the children very carefully to see whether they are being naughty or nice. At nice the elf reports back to Santa Claus.
CraftyPod has a post with some screen shots of gingerbread houses in Second Life.
Naugty Santa Bot: A Microsoft Live messenger bot called Santa Claus was promptly shut down by Microsoft after the bot started chatting about oral sex.
Billy Joel has written a controversial Christmas song called “Christmas in Fallujah.”
Blogthings: Do you have the Christmas Spirit?.
Green xmas trees: Is a battle brewing among U.S. cities to see who can create greenest Christmas tree?
Skeet’s Stuff blogged about something many of us have had to do this holiday — mail big packages at the very last minute.
Boing Boing tracks down a couple Christmas oddities: Christmas lights poweruddy by an electric eel and a Unborn baby - US Troop model ornament.
Mark Cuban wants new dancing shoes and a 32gb flash drive.
How to avoid a Code-Red Christmas - halt drunk family members from ruining all the holiday fun.
Holiday crafts: Peanut Santas, German paper stars, Christmas Pinatas, Etched Glass Nativity,
Origami Gift Box, Christmas Pixie, Retro Foam Ornaments, Modern Advent Calendar, Paper Pine Cone, Table Top Christmas Tree, Photo Snow Globes
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