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    Most search engines strive for a certain level of variety; they want to show you ten different results on a search results page, not ten different URLs that all have the same content.

    Susan Moskwa, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst

    The up-coming WordPress 2.7 introduce new advanced comment features; comment threading, nesting, paging (pagination) etc. You probably won’t have any issue with WordPress 2.7 as most of the new advanced/enhanced features is disabled by default. Thats a good news.

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  • Night stalker

    Night stalker?

    The following screenshot is a preview of WP-iStalker Chrome Milk 1.6.2 Release Candidate 2 night themes (Client-side time styles switcher). Compatible with WordPress 2.6 to 2.7b3.

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    .nifty features for this release

    • Dynamic SEF Blog heading. Available if your server support for PHP GD and Freetype Library. Required a working fonts inside the public webfonts directory.
    • jQuery ScrollTo (Jquery plugin by Ariel Flesler) bind to all post links with ’scroll-to’ class name attributes selector.
    • jQuery simple Tool Tips bind to all post links with ‘ttip’ class name selector and ‘external’ rel selector (target elements must have title attributes for this to work).
    • WordPress categories widget hack. This feature will update all WP categories widgets to jQuery Treeview folding list style (jQuery plugin by Jörn Zaefferer). The ’show category children’ widget category options must be enabled for this function to work.
    • Most downloads widget (WP-Download Manager by Lester Chan) will automatically append to your custom download page sidebar.
    • Translator widget (Global Translator by David Pozza) will automatically append to singular page sidebar.
    • Auto append PICS (W3C standards for filtering content) meta-links this options is available at “Theme options » Extra metadata” when you upload labels.rdf on your blog’s root directory.
    • Frame breaker, enabling this option will break all client view inside frameset or iframe.
    • Alternate language meta-links, will auto append if global translator plugin is enabled.
    • Dynamic Banner. The new banner options will enable you to customize different banner for different page in WP hierarchical section (e.g., front page, author page, single page, and custom page).
    • CSS 3. even-odd nth child (’select-even’, ’select-odd’) and column count class (‘column-1′, …, ‘column-5′)selector

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    • November 29, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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  • This release (at revision 63) fixes the bug with WPI content permalinks and added support for WordPress 2.7 comment features.

    Chrome Milk 1.6.2 RC1 Screenshot

    Thickbox reply form

    WordPress 2.7x reply form (jQuery thickbox)

    A9 OpenSearch 1.1 Auto-discovery

    A9 OpenSearch 1.1 Auto-discovery (OSD)

    Valid microformats

    Various Microformats embed

    Safari native search feature

    Safari native search feature

    comment pagination WP 2.7x

    WordPress 2.7x Comments Pagination

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    • November 10, 2008 at 10:00 am
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  • This are good news for web developer, W3C’s CSS validation system now supports CSS3. Check it out http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://zeldman.com&warning=1&profile=css3&usermedium=all. It wont report errors if you write valid CSS 3.

    • November 6, 2008 at 8:45 am
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  • If you used the latest version of WP-iStalker theme it will show you the client’s user-agent for sending trackback and pingback. The small signature is display on the comment list & Akismet.

    I actually made this little feature for separating WordPress client pingback and trackback comments. I’m positive that you can also used it for comparing real trackback from spammer.

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    • November 5, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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  • Chrome Milk

    Version 1.6.2 is a downgrade of WPI brush milk WordPress theme. Because of complicated license issues and some others pure experimental code breakdown 60% of the features has been taken out.

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    Read the quick start guide, if you meet all the requirements download it at google code page. WIP Demo.

    Features

    WPI is a features rich open source theme, you will have more control with content using WPI theme. Possible options include from a simple task like changing date format on single post to controlling what will be send in HTTP headers, imagine that!.

    Template structure is base on W3C CSS3 layout and its semantically a POSH design (Microformats) . Checkout the no frill features list.

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    • November 4, 2008 at 6:20 am
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