WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs.  This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but the thing is that this time it is.  WordPress 2.7 comes with a huge number of changes, a good chunk of them making some older plugins redundant. This will be a huge upgrade for all blog owners.

The following lists 20 of the biggest changes coming, but all together there have been over 400 changes to the program this time around. Any way you slice it, there is a little bit of something for everyone in this release.  Take a look through and you’re sure to find something that appeals to you.

Unfortunately this is only available for the blogs on WordPress.com for now, but it will be released for self-hosted blogs on December 10th.

What are the changes you are most excited about?

Comments

Close Comments On Old Posts - Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense to continue letting comments come in on an old post, and it is a favorite trick of spammers anyway. WordPress 2.7 will allow you to close comments on older posts, eliminating the need for yet another plugin.

Comment Paging - Comments broken into pages instead of being a never ending bottom to your post.

Comment Replies From the Admin Section - A feature that has long been needed is the ability to reply to comments from your admin section without having to go to the front end of your blog.

Comment Threading - It’s not just admin comment replies that are getting love, but all comments will now be in a threaded format. Great for those long debates you get into about what “sux” or why someone is a “newb,” at last no one will be confused about to whom you are referring!

XMLRPC Comments API -Support for the XML-RPC protocol which is a simplified API that encodes your comments in XML and transports them via HTTP.

Keyboard Shortcuts For Comments -Once you’re in your comments, you can use the keys j and k to navigate through the comments. Once selected, some of the keys you can use will be “a” to approve, “s” to mark as spam and “d” to delete.

Theme & Plugin Related

One-Click Plugin Installs - Another long time plugin favorite is going the way of the dinosaurs with the introduction of the ability to install plugins from the dashboard.

Plugin Browser - Browsing for plugins, one of the favorite pastimes of many bloggers, will be made easier by being able to do it without ever leaving your WordPress install.

Sticky Posts - There have been numerous WordPress plugins over the years to make a post “sticky” so that it stays as the top post on your front page no matter how many posts you publish after it. The feature has now been built in to the core program.

Updating the Core WordPress - Yet another WordPress plugin finds its way into the core WordPress program. For those users who haven’t used something like Fantastico or Simple Scripts to install their blog, there will now be a more automated way for you to keep up with all of those pesky security updates.

Theme Update API Notices - You will receive updates when your installed themes are updated just like WordPress does now with plugins.

Greater Controls

Batch Editing for Posts - Ever needed to edit the tags for several posts, but couldn’t do it because of the work involved? Batch editing will now allow you to do mass edits of your posts so that you can make as many changes as you want to your blog no matter how old it is.

Column Control - On any management page that shows columns, you will now be able to choose which columns are shown and how.

Ping & Trackback Moderation - With the ever increasing wave of “splogs” trackbacking your blog, there will finally be moderation of them in a more manageable, frame-like format.

QuickPress - Ever wanted to just do a quick post without having to load the entire write page?  Now you can directly from the Dashboard page with QuickPress.

Recent Drafts - There will now be a module on your dashboard to get to your most recent drafts so you can quickly get access to your posts that are in progress.

Other Tweaks

Dashboard and Write Rearrangements - There have been significant redesigns to navigation and general layouts of the dashboard and write pages.

PHPXref - Ever go slightly loopy trying to make sense of PHP files? PHPXref will help you by making PHP into easy to digest documents that you can read through. All of this will be hosted on WordPress.org.

Image Size Tweaks - Thumbnail and Medium commands will stay the same, but Large will now be restricted to 1024 pixels, or the constraints of your theme. If you want no restrictions and post insane sized pictures, you will now be able to select “Full Size” which will post your image at its original size. You will also now see the dimensions for each size next to the radio buttons.

Redundant Coding - Theme authors will be happy to see some changes to the wp_page_menu wrapper that will simplify their coding and add conveniences like making “Home” part of the list.

Interested in more WordPress resources? Check these out:

WordPress Themes: “Top 12 Stunning WordPress Themes“, “30+ WordPress 3 Column Themes,” “20 WordPress 4-Column Themes,” “30+ WordPress 1-Column Themes,” “10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes”

Plugins: “50+ WordPress Plugins for Multimedia,” “30+ WordPress Plugins for Statistics,” “30+ WordPress Plugins for Comments,” “30+ WordPress Plugins to Get More Blog Readers.”

Miscellaneous: “WordPress God: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog,” “The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress“

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centerimg id="image1675" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/2151/5_taking_downfinal.gif" alt="5_taking_downfinal.gif" //centerbr / pDepending upon the utopian or dystopian narratives to which you might subscribe, the internet is a bit like heaven or hell--with the pearly gates of cyberspace welcoming you to a world where you want for nothing or a fiery apocalyptic dungeon big enough to house all your nightmares. Either vision is intense and exactly the sort of stuff that religious iconography was once made of; yet the wide distribution of devotional messages broadcast on the web seems only to have cast a dim shadow upon the net art community. More recently, spiritualities new age and old school have been forceful fodder in contemporary art, while glossing over a true connection to the divine. Italian curator a href="http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/"Domenico Quaranta/a suggests, "take Martin Kippenberger's crucified frog, for instance, or the cross submerged in the urine of Andres Serrano, or Maurizio Cattelan's Nona ora, or the Virgin Mary blackened with elephant dung by Chris Ofili, or Vanessa Beecroft's recent Madonnas. All of these works are undoubtedly imbued with their own form of 'sacredness,' yet they would hardly be hung in a church." Quaranta's exhibition, "For God's Sake," installed now at Nova Gorica, Solevenia's 9th annual a href="http://www.pixxelpoint.org/forgodssake-e.html"Pixxelpoint/a festival, looks at the simultaneous increase in religion-themed work and the ever wider distribution of mass-mediated sermons and religious messages, through new technologies. The question is whether this amounts to an increase in religious devotion, or rather a diluted or muddied conflation of spiritual values in a time of mixed forms and mixed messages arriving in convergent media. As with ZKM's "a href="http://www02.zkm.de/mediumreligion/"Medium Religion/a" show, which we covered a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2136"last week/a, Quaranta's show (and in particular his poignant a href="http://www.rhizome.org/discuss/view/41041"curatorial statement/a), look at attitudinal shifts parallel to media developments. The long list of international media artists he's selected present us with mostly web-based works that offer insight into the present status of the sublime and the potency of devotion, on the internet--whether their subject is G-O-D or Andy Warhol, whether they are revering the ancient form of the crucifix or the moon walk. The show is only up through December 12th, but images and more information about each work can, of course, be found a href="http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/pixxelpoint2008.html"online/a. - Marisa Olson/p piImage: Markus Kison, Crucifixion, 2006, Installation. /i/p p class="more"a href="http://www.pixxelpoint.org/forgodssake-e.html"Link raquo;/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-fp/~4/474843828" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/annoyatron_v2.jpg" width="400" height="385" style="display:block;" /You may remember a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/annoy+a+tron-lose-friends-for-cheap-232824.php"the original Annoy-a-tron/a, a tiny device designed to annoy the crap out of friends and enemies alike. Well, now there's the new Annoy-a-tron 2.0, taking the obnoxiousness to new heights./p pThe Annoy-a-tron is a tiny device that plays annoying sounds at random intervals, perfect for hiding in your targets office. While the original would just play one annoying sound, the 2.0 version has five different sounds, allowing you to specifically choose your form of torment. The sounds are:/p p-15kHz (Mosquito tone) (full volume)br -Cricket chirping (medium/low volume)br -IM Doorbell (low volume)br -Grating Electronic noise (full volume)br -Typical Electronic Beep (medium volume)/p pYes, that mosquito tone is the frequency that young people can hear and older people or people with bad hearing cannot, making it the perfect setting for "annoying" your toddlers when they're trying to sleep./p pThe tiny device has two magnets on board and a battery that will provide it with four full weeks of juice, provided you hide it well enough to torture someone for a full month. [a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/"ThinkGeek/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2abf1e03dd8479289d9c7e5cf6097facp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2abf1e03dd8479289d9c7e5cf6097facp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=2abf1e03dd8479289d9c7e5cf6097fac" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=qe2WM0FG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=d8hv0OP1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=iU3sly5c"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=iU3sly5c" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=h7a47YHU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=h7a47YHU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/C6dG8lSLYcM" height="1" width="1"/

pHere we are, at the beginning of another round of Reading Classics Together. In the past months we've read four great Christian classics--emHoliness/em by J.C. Ryle, emOvercoming Sin and Temptation/em by John Owen, emThe Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross/em by A.W. Pink and emThe Religious Affections/em by Jonathan Edwards. And now we add to the list emMere Christianity/em by C.S. Lewis. I trust that this will be a slightly easier read than Edwards, whose great work we finished just a few weeks ago./p pIf you are interested in joining in this effort, please feel free to do so. Simply buy, borrow or download a copy of emMere Christianity/em and start reading. Our assigned reading for this week was nothing more than the Preface and Foreword, so you will not be far behind. Every week we will read a portion of the book and then return here on Thursdays to enjoy a little bit of discussion. It's a good, easy way of making your way through some of the classics of the Christian faith./p h2Discussion/h2 pThis week's reading was, by design, very simple. To help set the stage for the book, we read just the Preface and Foreword. Essentially, we learned a little bit about the book's genesis and Lewis' rationale for writing it. And, of course, we learned what he meant by the term "Mere Christianity."/p pLewis wastes no time discussing the book's origins. "The contents of this book were first given on the air, and then published in three separate parts as emBroadcast Talks/em (1942), emChristian Behaviour/em (1943) and emBeyond Personality/em (1944)." The book has been adapted slightly to fit the print medium, but is otherwise consistent with what he taught over the radio. In the Foreword, Kathleen Norris provides further context by setting these messages in the midst of the Second World War, in a day when people were asking questions about the nature and existence of God. Lewis "gave talks to men in the Royal Air Force, who knew that after just thirteen bombing missions, most of them would be declared dead or missing. Their situation prompted Lewis to speak about the problems of suffering, pain, and evil, work that resulted in his being invited by the BBC to give a series of wartime broadcasts on Christian faith." This is not a work of academic philosophy but a work of oral literature, delivered to people at war./p pIn the Preface, Lewis addresses the inevitable question of "what is mere Christianity?". He says it is "the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times." While he does not hide his own Anglicanism, he says that he will not be arguing for one particular denomination. Nor will he concern himself with issues of secondary importance since, as he says, these tend to fracture rather than divide and are not very useful for purposes of apologetics. "I am not writing to expound something I would call 'my religion,' but to expound 'mere' Christianity, which is what it is and what it was long before I was born and whether I like it or not." /p pNorris writes this: "The 'mere' Christianity of C.S. Lewis is not a philosophy or even a theology that may be considered, argued, and put away in a book on a shelf. It is a way of life, one that challenges us always to remember, as Lewis once stated, that 'there are no ordinary people' and that 'it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit.' Once we tune ourselves to this reality, Lewis believes, we open ourselves to imaginatively transform our lives in such a way that evil diminishes and good prevails. It is what Christ asked of us in taking on our humanity, sanctifying our flesh, and asking us in turn to reveal God to one another."/p pAnd so mere Christianity is the essence of the Christian faith--those beliefs that have been held in common by all true Christians through all of the church's history. And on that basis, I think we are ready to move forward, knowing what it is that Lewis hopes to accomplish through the book./p h2Next Week/h2 pFor next week, let's read Book I. It's not as bad as it sounds. There are five short chapters that together come in at less than 30 pages (which together are probably easier to read than 5 pages of Edwards or Owen!). I think this section is best read as a unit so we'll treat it in that fashion. So read those pages and come back here next Thursday!/p h2Your Turn/h2 pThe purpose of this program is to read these classics emtogether/em. So if there is something you'd like to share about what you read, please feel free to do so. You can leave a comment or a link to your blog and we'll make this a collaborative effort./pbr /strongSponsor:/strongbr /a href="http://www.rpmissions.com"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/RPMissions.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=1B1NO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=1B1NO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=3lvbo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=3lvbo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=nyqlo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=nyqlo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/474692906" height="1" width="1"/

pimg id="image12836" alt=logos src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/12/logos.jpg" /br / Las cadenas estadounidenses ya han hecho públicos sus calendarios con los estrenos y los regresos de sus series para la emmidseason/em, con algunos movimientos de horarios y, por supuesto, la vuelta a las parrillas de strongAmerican Idol/strong, la #8216;Estrella de la Muerte#8217; de las audiencias, como lo llaman fuera de su cadena, Fox./p pComo seguir todos los cambios de día, de horario y los estrenos a veces puede ser un poco complicado, después del salto strongos dejamos un calendario muy esquemático, organizado por meses, de las fechas /strongen que vuelven de sus parones navideños muchas series, los días que comienzan las nuevas temporadas y cuándo se estrenan las series nuevas. Si falta algo (que no sería raro, comentadlo y lo arreglaremos, aunque aún hay algunas series de las que se desconoce su futuro.!--more--/p pstrongENERO/strongbr / strongDía 5/strong: Gossip Girl (The CW), One Tree Hill (The CW), The secret life of the american teenager (span class="caps"ABC/span Family), Kyle XY (span class="caps"ABC/span Family)br / strongDía 6/strong: Scrubs (span class="caps"ABC/span), Ley y Orden: span class="caps"UVE/span (span class="caps"NBC/span), 90210 (The CW), Privileged (The CW), Nip/Tuck (FX)br / strongDía 7/strong: El coche fantástico (span class="caps"NBC/span), Ley y orden (span class="caps"NBC/span), Daños y perjuicios (FX)br / strongDía 8/strong: Ugly Betty (span class="caps"ABC/span), Anatomía de Grey (span class="caps"ABC/span), Sin cita previa (span class="caps"ABC/span), Me llamo Earl (span class="caps"NBC/span), Kath Kim (span class="caps"NBC/span), The Office (span class="caps"NBC/span), Rockefeller Plaza (span class="caps"NBC/span), Urgencias (span class="caps"NBC/span)br / strongDía 9/strong: Entre fantasmas (span class="caps"CBS/span), Flashpoint (span class="caps"CBS/span), Numb3rs (span class="caps"CBS/span), Todo el mundo odia a Chris (The CW), Monk (span class="caps"USA/span), Psych (span class="caps"USA/span)br / strongDía 11/strong: 24 (Fox)br / strongDía 12/strong: Prison Break (Fox)br / strongDía 15/strong: Bones (Fox), Smallville (The CW), Sobrenatural (The CW)br / strongDía 16/strong: Friday Night Lights (span class="caps"NBC/span), Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi)br / strongDía 18/strong: Los Simpson (Fox), El rey de la colina (Fox), Padre de familia (Fox), Padre made in span class="caps"USA/span (Fox), Big Love (span class="caps"HBO/span), Flight of the Conchords (span class="caps"HBO/span), L (Showtime), The United States of Tara (Estreno. Showtime)br / strongDía 19/strong: House (Fox)br / strongDía 21/strong: Perdidos (span class="caps"ABC/span), Lie to me (Fox)br / strongDía 22/strong: Último aviso (span class="caps"USA/span)br / strongDía 26/strong: The Closer (span class="caps"TNT/span), Trust me (Estreno. span class="caps"TNT/span)br / strongDía 28/strong: Life on Mars (span class="caps"ABC/span)/p pstrongFEBRERO/strongbr / strongDía 2/strong: Chuck (span class="caps"NBC/span), Héroes (span class="caps"NBC/span), Medium (span class="caps"NBC/span)br / strongDía 4/strong: Life (span class="caps"NBC/span)br / strongDía 13/strong: Las crónicas de Sarah Connor (Fox), Dollhouse (Estreno. Fox)/p pstrongMARZO/strongbr / strongDía 9/strong: Castle (Estreno. span class="caps"ABC/span)br / strongDía 17/strong: Reaper (The CW)br / strongDía 19/strong: Kings (Estreno. span class="caps"NBC/span)br / strongDía 24/strong: Cupid (Estreno. span class="caps"ABC/span)/p pstrongABRIL/strongbr / strongDía 8/strong: The Unusuals (Estreno. span class="caps"ABC/span)br / strongDía 9/strong: Harper#8217;s Island (Estreno. span class="caps"CBS/span)/p pDe algunas series, como casi todas las de la span class="caps"CBS/span, aún no se ha anunciado cuándo regresarán del hiato invernal, y de ciertos estrenos para emmidseason/em, como strongVirtuality/strong en Fox o la telecomedia de Amy Poehler en la span class="caps"NBC/span, tampoco se conocen las fechas de estreno. 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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47a93a374b543772005e74bfmaxX=200maxY=150" border="0" alt="grinch-santa.jpg" title="grinch-santa.jpg" width="200" height="150" /As we've noted, eCommerce spending for the first several weeks of November was appallingly bad. Over the weekend and on Cyber Monday, however, it jumped sharply, suggesting that things in consumer-spending and web land are not quite as bleak as they seemed./p pDon't start popping the champagne, though. November 1-December 1 spending was still down -2% year over year, which is horrific relative to last year's 20%+ gain. Comscore is forecasting flat spending year over year, which still seems optimistic./p pa href="http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2607"Comscore:/a/p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"/span/strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"For the holiday season-to-date, $12.03 billion has been spent online, marking a 2 percent decline versus the corresponding days last year. However, Cyber Monday saw $846 million in online spending, up 15 percent. 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