WordPress Podcast Support

Ah! Found another thing to love about WordPress. Auto Podcast support, works just like FeedBurner, no need to install any plugins, hacks, mods etc it's there. Found out by accident when my feed wouldn't validate because I'd posted a picture and WP picked it up and put it into enclosures which wasn't the problem it won't validate it was because it didn't pick up the size of the file (because it's an image).

Dunno if that is good or bad thing but I know that I'll be watching the pictures I put in my blog from now on. But anyway it's a good good thing. And I love how I can easily exclude the item from the enclosure if I wanted to. E.g. You have only one audio file and your intention wasn't to build a podcast you can remove the enclosure. Neat, good job WP team.

Talking the same language

If there's one thing I don't like about WordPress is... there is quite a bit of information and features that are ambigously named. E.g. Write = Post and in my last post, Edit timestamp. Took me a while to figure those out and all I wanted was something plug and play. Everyone wants to be different at the expense of users. The next guy who builds a blog tool that looks and feels like Blogger will have a winner. Ok I best shut my mouth before WordPress users ban me from using their software yikes!

Auto Pinging

I've been using WordPress on Tech Based Marketing's official blog and even experimented with b2 evolution but decided to stick with WordPress. Why WordPress or any other blog application other than Blogger? Well... for one I like the ability to have trackback. Yes sick as it sounds I do, sure there's the chance I'll get spam but at least I can review it before allow it to go through. But more so I like the ability to do a trackback ping on that blog posting interface itself. No, I don't spam other's trackbacks but I do like to link to people especially when they say it a lot better than I do ;-)

But anyway, I tested with WordPress's post to future feature. Which they don't call forward posting or future post they call it an awfully ambigous name - Edit Timestamp. I initially thought this was well... edit timestamp but it really is forward posting. I wanted to know if the forward posting will also automatically ping the sites I want to ping, in this case, pingomatic and my test results are... yes!

Wow was I ever glad! This means I can set aside one day of my week to do nothing but enter blog posts, forward post them one day a time and I'll have fresh content everyday of the week AND pinged. Talk about automation... Nice... now pardon me as I have to go ping this manually *grumbles*