Participating in the 2.0

One really cool thing about having a book website is that we the authors, can keep readers (and potential readers) up to date on stuff that has changed since the book went to press. It also provides a venue for us to expand on some of the things we DIDN’T cover in the book. After all there are only so many pages of manuscript. In our case, we had lots of types of blogging software to cover so we didn’t got in to extreme detail about any of them.

But this isn’t to say we don’t have experience and knowledge in these areas. In the last year, I’ve been doing a lot of Wordpress work, particularly with WordpressMU. I knew when we started the book this was an area we weren’t going to delve in depth into. But having spent some of my own time learning about this stuff as part of getting WordpressMU running for UH and helping maintain LITA Blog, I’ve learned a lot. So I think this is an area well worth expanding upon. So look for some serious Wordpress tips and tricks from me: Widget, Templates, more on Wordpress as small scale CMS.

I also think we are going to have to do an in depth Wordpress 2.5 update. Jason has posted a little bit about it already but I’m guessing that each of us will have our own opinions and favorite features. So you are likely to hear about our Wordpress 2.5 experiences as soon as we each get it installed on our personal blogs.

For those that use Wordpress, just a note about the upcoming 2.5 release: it rocks on toast. I’ve been using the Release Candidate 1 for WP2.5 for a week or so now, and the improvements in the admin interface are enormous. Better organization, more ajax interaction, just much, much smoother. Every time I’ve gone to do something in the last week I’ve been surprised at the ease.

This isn’t to say that you won’t have to update your plugins, as always…but WP2.5 finally has one-click automagic updating of plugins. This isn’t quite ready for primetime, but it’s very close.

I haven’t dug into the hardcore coding changes yet, but if the things I have noticed are indicative of the things I haven’t yet, I’m really looking forward to this release.

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 Library Blogging is currently a work in progress, and we will be working desperately on getting regularly updated content here, as well as supplementary content from the book.

Stay tuned!