Following Matt’s announcement that the text-links had been removed from the free Vanilla forums package, I thought it was a good time to donate as well. There’s no way I can match Matt’s $1000, but I hope my meager $100 donation helps out.
Several times recently in #wordpress, I’ve seen people asking how they could modify the list of allowed file types used in the file uploader on the Write Post page.
It’s been a while since I actually encountered this particular nugget of advice1, but I thought I’d go ahead and make a quick post out of it anyway.
You’ve probably read it over on the Wordpress.com blog by now - they’ve taken a step up in password security by adding a meter that gauges the strength of a user’s password as they change it.
Update 8/4/2010: Note that in at least WordPress 3.0 there is a new filter specifically designed for changing the length of the excerpt: excerpt_length. Instead of re-implementing the entire excerpt-creation function you can now simply return the appropriate value.