We have seen in our Wordpress dashboard the coming of 2.3. Today we welcome Dexter or 2.3. Get the latest version here. I guess the biggest news of this release is tagging, tag clouds and better URL handling. The SEO crowds are cheering!! Check out the release notes for full updated items.

While I am glad to have an update, which means more features and more security. It also means I have to update about 15 blogs… It’s going to be a long night.

Technorati Tags: Wordpress dashboard, Dexter, tagging, tag clouds, URL handling

In the Blog Rush Dash board there is a message about low CTR due to gaming of the system by some users, “Click- through rates are very low right now due to problems with some users cheating the system.”

There are several sites giving out information on how to exploit the BlogRush software.

I hope John’s team can address and resolve these issues very soon, or it will really compromise the effectiveness of the tool. So far John as been up front with his communication about some of the issues BR has faced since it’s launch.

I created a Youtube video to show how you can exclude a page from showing up in the Wordpress sidebar of your blog. I did a quick search on Google for a plug-in but was not able to find anything. If anyone knows of a plug-in please post on the blog.

Find:
The first thing you will need to do is edit the sidebar.php file. Do a search for the following function: wp_list_pages.

Edit:
Next you will need to find the post ID for the page you want to exclude. Once you know this you will add this “&exclude=5” to your wp_list_pages function.

Example: <?php wp_list_pages(’sort_column=menu_order&title_li&exclude=5′); ?>

Upload:
Once you have modified and saved your file then upload to your server and the page will be updated.

Done

Technorati Tags: Youtube, Wordpress, Google, plug-in, wp_list_pages