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Get Ready for WordPress 3.4 – It’s Beyond Awesome!

You will love it. It's faster. It's easier to use. It has all the power it had before and a lot more. I've been testing it and I like it. WordPress 3.4 is billed for release next week and it looks great. We already have oEmbed. You know what that is, right? The thing that lets us embed YouTube, Flickr and SlideShare directly into a post just by copying the page URL into the page where we want it to display. No complicated 3000 line embed codes required. Well now it works for Twitter too! … [Read more...]

How to Verify Your WordPress Multi Site Blogs with Google, Yahoo and Bing

Just a quick post, nothing particularly spectacular but useful nonetheless. If you use the Multi Site functionality of WordPress 3.0 (and I expect this works for WordPress MU too), you might wonder how you can verify your additional blogs with Google, Yahoo and Bing given that each blog has no sub-domain folder to upload the verification files into. There is an easy solution, install the header-footer plugin, activate it across your network of blogs then place each blog's verification details as meta tags into the HTML header field (for all pages) provided by the plugin. Copyright … [Read more...]