It’s always nice to see two nifty group of people team up, ActiveReload creators of the LightHouse - a bug smashing, issue tracking web-based software, recently provided [SETUP FOR CHYRP] So, now we all can go there and report all the bugs, feature requests and enhancements for Chyrp - a super lightweight blogging platform.

Hopefully, this helps Chyrp to rise and prosper.

Good Luck guys!

The ultra-lightweight ultra-flexible blogging engine Chyrp has moved it’s source to GitHub so if you want to download it or contribute, you should go here.

They also had their community [MOVED]  and Docs section is also fixed now, PHP5 version of Chyrp is still in development and yet to come

Stay Tuned: http://chyrp.net

After a month, Movable Type releases first public beta, it was completly based on log files that was submitted by users themselvs, but thats not all, now Movable Type has more features, such as:

1. Threaded Commenting
2. Simpler, Easier Default Templates
3. Updated Navigation and Menus
4. New Template and Widget Listing Screens
5. Template Previews
6. Faster, More Powerful Search — and now with Pagination!
7. Even More Publishing Control

You can get your copy [HERE] and view full release note [HERE]

Its been six months now that we heared about new WP version coming trough, and now bloggers favourite blogging script - WordPress gets another great update.

Lots of user requested features, such are:

1. Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
2. Dashboard Widgets
3. Multi-file upload with progress bar
   
4. EXIF extraction
5. Search posts and pages
   
6. Tag management
7. Password strength meter
8. Concurrent editing protection
9. Few-click plugin upgrades
10. Friendlier visual post editor
11. Built-in galleries

were introduced, most of all I liked built in galleries support which you can use by simply putting [ gallery] (without the space) tag into you posts.

As for multi-file upload, I dont know why but its not working with my IE7 but looks nice in FireFox. Hope that will get fixed.

There are developer side improvements of course:

1. Salted passwords
2. Secure cookies
3. Easy taxonomy and URL creation
4. Inline documentation
5. Database optimization
6. $wpdb->prepare()
7. Media buttons
8. Shortcode API

With new release http://wordpress.org got redesign too, and looks really slick.

Go get your new WP copy here: http://wordpress.org/download/

[Via WordPress]

We have seen lots of clones, but this one is completly… lets say unusuall, why? well its COMPLETE clone of infamous Twitter.com which allows you to answer one simple question: What are you doing right now? and micro-blog about it.

The point is that your friends will know what and where are you doing, ReVou itself comes with Developer API just like twitter, so you can further expand it, even SMS service is built in and accepts Clickatell as SMS gateway provider.

Also mentionable featureas are Messenger support and contacts mporter.

Currently its priced $399 yep, its pricey! original price was $499 however.

For full feature list go to http://www.revou.com

[Via Techcrunch]

Update: I have just learned that this script is actually being “developed” by AlstraSoft this company was previously accused in idea theft, bad support and buggy scripts, so be awared!

We have all heared/read about very lightweight, fast and functional blogging engine: Chyrp (if not, check demo here: http://chyrp.net/demo/ at first it was very buggy and that even stopped people to install/try it.

So now, author Alex Suraci focused on bugfixing and even made tons of enhancements, as well as some small changes to the existing Module, Feathers, and Theme engines. A Tumblr importer is in the works as well.

Whats so amazing about Chyrp? well it is free, lightweight, clean, minimalistic and:

All of your content is powered by a unique Feathers system that allows Chyrp to be whatever you want it to be. You can post anything or everything, or just stick to the default Text feather and run a regular blog. Chyrp destroys the fine line separating a blog and a tumblelog.

So wait till 1.0.4 is out and give it a try, good luck Chyrp ( http://chyrp.net/ )

As you might already know, Movable Type beats WordPress when it comes to integrated plugins, that means those plugins get better support than 3rd party plugins.

Moving further with the story Movable Type 4.0 provided (as they claim “for the first time”) framework for developers, so they could

define their own custom asset types as illustrated through the Media Manager and Podcasting plugins for Movable Type.

Well in Movable Type 4.1 (which is still in BETA) administrators and authors can more easly edit, tag and orginize the assets within their Movable Type install. From now on, you can:

• Filter Assets by Type - you can simply filter your assets by Flickr images, YouTube videos… well you got the point.
• One Click Previews - provides small and zoom-able thumbnails for all the assets in a list.
• Asset Auditing - from the details screen you can view which and where assets are used, so you can for example: update them sitewide.
• Edit Assets - tag it, rename it, change description… you know - edit them

It will really make our life easier when it comes out of BETA.

WordPress-ians are calling for immediate attention, today they fixed bugs that could:

• Show bad guys your draft posts
• give away information about your database table structure and limits (to the same bad guys)
• give away some information in the XML-RPC and APP implementations

I do not know who can ever use those bugs to do some bad things with our blogs, but well - it’s better to update your blog up to 2.3.2.

There is some bonus as well, now we can set a custom DB error page, for that we should place our custom template at wp-content/db-error.php and if WordPress has a problem connecting to blog’s database, this page will displayed rather than the default error message - neat ha?