Buffer Dump 29DEC07

*NB: What some folk are calling “upgrade” lots of other folk are calling “update”. (I’m in the latter group.)*

LaughingSquid writes: “The WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin Rocks“

“The WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, created by Keith Dsouza of Techie Buzz, is one of the best WordPress plugins ever written. It makes upgrading WordPress quick and super easy, letting you know exactly it what is doing each step of the way.
It it does a backup of both your files and database, grabs the latest version of WordPress, disables and then re-enables your plugins and even puts your blog into maintenance mode during the upgrade.”

And there is also this “WPAU” plugin from weblogtoolscollection.com aka “WordPress Plugin Competition Blog”:

“WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin saves you all the headaches and efforts while upgrading your wordpress installation. Here is what the WordPress Automatic Upgrade does.
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And now, returning to regular programming:

• Striping Comments; Using PHP to Alternate Colors
• Conditional Multi-column
• Set different number of posts in category page, home page …