Mindful Musings

I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 1.2. The theme of this blog is very similar to a Movable Type blog and is meant to be that way. I wanted to debunk the myth of WordPress design. This blog is an extremely customized version of the original WordPress codebase and contains a bunch of plugins. Mose of these are very simple to install, have been coded by me and will show up in the next WuhWuh. This is more of a launchpad for that process.
Some of the plugins in this version include:

• Wiki Plugin
• Asides
• Most popular Posts & Post counter
• Waypath
• wp-stats from Jesuit
• Comment Preview form
• Google Pagerank strippper
• Technorati Link Cosmos
• Threaded Comments
• Redone narchives.php
• Redone BreadCrumbs navigation

Over and above my plugins, I had a very inclusive WordPress install which already gave me the following new features:

• Sub-categories: Categories can be arranged hierarchically and infinitely deep. Multiple categories combined with sub-categories gives WordPress the most comprehensive taxonomy system of any blogging software available.

* OPML Export and Import: You can import and export OPML to systems like Bloglines or desktop aggregators like NetNewsWire and FeedDemon. * Automatic Thumbnail Creation System: WordPress has a refined upload feature that automatically creates thumbnails any size you want. * Encyrpted passwords and cookies: All passwords in the database and password cookies are encrypted, ensuring maximal security. * New plugin architecture: The new plugin architecture simplifies modifying or extending WordPress’ features. Plugins can now hook into nearly every action WordPress does. * Localization of WordPress and Unicode support: The efforts put into internationalizing WordPress have borne fruit, and now you can adapt WordPRess to work in your native language. Several translations are already available. * Advanced comment moderation: You can now fine-tune your moderation filters in a manner very similar to blacklists for other weblog tools. There is also mass-editing of comments, which makes it a snap to delete hundreds of comments with the click of a button, if necessary. * Post preview: Near-instant previews while writing or editing articles help you proofread and make improvements before finally presenting your work of art to the world. * RSS and LiveJournal Importers: The new RSS import script is the closest thing to an universal importer. It allows you to import entries from Radio weblogs even other blogging tools that we may not support specifically. The LiveJournal importer finally lets you have a full blooded self-hosted weblog without losing all your old LiveJournal posts. * Unlimited update services: Now you can define multiple weblog change monitoring services to be pinged when you post. * Directory flexbility: Now you can have all the WordPress files in one directory and the weblog in a higher level directory.

There is still a little more work to be done, but I am very pleased with the result. What do you think?