Posts Tagged With: WordPress
· July 16, 2008 at 5:33 am · Web Development
Tags: 2.6, blogs, cms, fixed, install, updates, upgrade, WordPress
Thus far I have to say that WordPress 2.6 looks like a pretty awesome upgrade. Just did a few upgrades myself, but haven’t had time yet to play with everything that is new…
I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
Also here are some of the improvements, updates and upgrades:
- Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
- Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
- Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
- Plugin update notification bubble.
- Customizable default avatars.
- You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
- Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
- Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
- You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
- Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
- Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
- You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
- Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
You can read more (and watch a video tour) from WordPress.org about it here:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/
You can download WordPress 2.6 here:
http://wordpress.org/download/
Also looks like somebody has already found the easter egg in it too.
For those of you using cPanel/Fantastico to manage your install and upgrades, the upgrade for you might not come for a couple of more weeks. Are you excited about WordPress 2.6 yet?
· June 24, 2008 at 5:18 am · Web Development
Tags: 2.6, beta, bookmarklet, news, previews, WordPress
With Firefox 3 out, now I need something else to look forward to in the area of tech. Hmm, WordPress is already working on version 2.6 you say? I like WordPress, and the hinted at list of new features looks to be building on an already solid 2.5.
Here are a few things to look forward to in WordPress 2.6:
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Post Revisioning
- A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
- A new image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
- Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
- Built-in word counting in the post editor
- The ability to relocate your content directory
- The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
- Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
- Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
- Check box range selection with shift-click
You can check out the full list of goodies over at Ryan’s blog and also pickup the beta 1 if you have a place you’d like to play with it.
· May 26, 2008 at 5:44 am · Web Development
Tags: columns, customize, design, themes, widgets, WordPress
Yesterday I spend a little time playing around with my WordPress theme here, looking at adding widgets to themes that didn’t come “pre-designed” with them in mind. Thankfully for people like me Automattic has a great tutorial on how to get this done. Along with adding a few more features, support for gravatars and a third column I promise this version of the layout has 10% more awesomeness.
· April 24, 2008 at 5:52 am · Web Development
Tags: cpanel, easy, fantastico, free, install, install4free, WordPress
So you want to get up and going with your own WordPress powered web site, but you are afraid of installing it on your own? Thankfully there are a few ways you can get it installed without having to left a finger FTP client.
One solution would be to look and see if your web host has Fantastico installed. Via this cPanel addon you could have WordPress auto-install for you. Just login to your cPanel, and then go down to Fantastico and then find WordPress in the left navigation bar. Follow the on screen instructions and your set.
The second option would be to let the people at Install4Free do it for you. This is a team of volunteers who offer expert installs of WordPress for anybody who wants one. Now passing over your login details to your hosting account might seem like a bad idea but I have heard nothing but positive reviews of them thus far.
For me the WordPress install process has not ever been to difficult. I could see though where some people may be intimidated by it though. If there was third option I would suggest trying to install it yourself first.
· April 8, 2008 at 7:12 am · Odds & Ends
Tags: links, plugin, related posts, RSS, visitors, WordPress
The WordPress Related Posts plugin might be the best of the bunch. I have added this to a few of my various projects and online homes and I have to say I am really impressed that all you do is pretty much install, fill in some options and you are done.
Once activated, this plugin will automatically slip related links after all of your stories, articles and posts on your WordPress powered blog.
To your right here you can see what the admin interface looks like for the plugin. Pretty simple stuff. If you wish it will also add related posts to your RSS feed too.
If you want a simple way to keep people on your web site a little longer - related links to other stories they might be interested in is one of the best ways to do it. This WordPress Releated Posts plugin is hands down the easiest of the many out there that do this sort of thing to get up and running. On the web page for it, it says it is only for WordPress 2.3, but it has given me no problems at all on WordPress 2.5.
· April 4, 2008 at 5:49 am · Web Development, Web Hosting
Tags: contest, design, hosting, Lunarpages, themes, webhosts, WordPress
Lunarpages is putting on another WordPress theme design contest! The last one was fun as an innocent bystander because I got to see tons of unique and awesome designs day by day. Here are the details for this time around.
The rules have changed a bit to include mention of the exact schedule for voting and submissions (also noted below) as well as voting by Lunarpages Staff, ensuring all votes are tracked and accounted for.
The prizes, however, are just as juicy:
- First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan
- Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash
- Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash
Entering is just as simple as before – just Submit Your Theme and you’re in. We’ll post the top 5 Best WordPress Themes each week starting April 21 right here on the Blog for our community to vote on.
Go submit your own WordPress themes!
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