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.

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.

The last few days, I’ve been playing with my latest software toy, Rapid Niche Websites. I’ve set up this blog with the standard RNW template.

Exploring all that Rapid Niche Websites can do to design a blog got me thinking about types of blogs, and the themes and plugins that go with them.