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WordPress Upgrader works flawlessly

I tried it for the first time and it works flawlessly.

WordPress 2.7 is out

WordPress 2.7 is out. While there are a lot of great new features, there are two that piqued my interest:

Comment Threading
WordPress Upgrader

Comment threading is just that, comment threading. This is a useful feature that has always been provided by a plugin.
WordPress Upgrader “will give you the option of downloading, installing, and upgrading to the latest [...]

A few good Wordpress links

Ben has some good links on Wordpress resources here

Managing tags in WordPress

WordPress lets you associate tags with your posts. Version 2.6 even provides a nice UI to manage them. If you are interested in working with them directly in the database, here is a query to help you along:

SELECT
term.term_id,
tax.count,
term.name,
term.slug
FROM
wp_term_taxonomy tax,
wp_terms term
WHERE
tax.taxonomy = ‘post_tag’
AND
tax.term_id = term.term_id
ORDER BY
term.name ASC
LIMIT
0, 200

wp-syntax-rettke

Out of the box, WP-Syntax colors code using the default GeSHi colors. Per the authors advice in the ‘Advanced Customization’ section of Other Notes, you can configure GeSHi yourself by handling the wp_syntax_init_geshi hook and configuring it programmatically.
Since I wanted to do just that, I decided to publish a generic plugin, called wp-syntax-rettke, for folks [...]