Yes, WordPress 2.1 has been out for a few days, and there have been some significant changes. What that means is that your templates and some of your plugins might not work.

So I suggest you wait a few weeks, until other people have worked out the bugs, and updated the templates and plugins.

Yes, a couple more ping plugins: RSS AutoSubmit, and Pingfix. I’ll add them to the main ping plugins post, with more details there.

OK, I admit it, I love WordPress, cos I love finding more ways to tweak it. As I sort through the ways to improve my wordpress setup, I’ll be recording them here.

Now about plugins for plugins. Yes, its a strange category, but I do use a small number of plugins just to support other plugins.

Word Press Off-Page SEO no 1 - Give Good Pings

Off-page SEO is about getting links, and one big advantage of blogs like WordPress is that they can ping.

A ping is the way WordPress automatically notifies certain blog and RSS directories (or ‘update services’) that your blog has been updated, creating a short-term link to your blog in the process. Now don’t ask me about the technology behind how it pings, just the thought makes my eyes glaze over.