WordPress 2.5
While having a quick look at my dashboard, I noticed that WordPress has now released version 2.5. And they’ve made a load of changes to it under the hood. These changes can all be found by going to the WordPress.org development blog.
If you wish to install it, go to the download area and do what comes naturally. From my point of view, a few things that appeared broken on my blog are now fixed: I can use the pop up to insert links again and activating plugins no longer horribly leaves me unable to use the dashboard.
You won’t see much change on the blog itself, but the dashboard appears to me to be a little tidier and more intuitive.
hari
Says:
I love the dropdown idea. Also the sidebar looks better now. Just the Tags look a bit messy.
By the way, I’m now doing custom b2evolution skin design and porting WP skins to b2evolution for a fee. Take a look at the b2evolution.net news. They’re looking for volunteers and Francois is willing to pay people for porting WP skins.
30 March 2008, 4:30 am Usinghari’s last blog post..CGI scripts have always mystified me
hari
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news link: http://b2evolution.net/news/2008/03/24/b2evolution-custom-developers-designers-wanted
hari’s last blog post..CGI scripts have always mystified me
30 March 2008, 4:30 am UsingRay
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Thanks Hari. I’ve never really been 100% enamoured of the tag cloud, it may disappear at a later date.
Great news about the porting gig.
30 March 2008, 10:50 am Usingdrew
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Yeah, I’m not a fan of tags or tag clouds. I just get the feeling they’re trying to be glamorous category links, which most already have on their site.
30 March 2008, 10:52 pm UsingRay
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They’re useful for extra categorising, if you want to expand beyond a short number of categories. They’re also a little freer - often I’ll tag a post with a fairly unique tag and may never use it again - a category would be wasted. And apparently they’re useful for your SEO. Not that it matters much for this site, it’s not a money making site and I don’t expect it to ever be. Nor want it to be.
30 March 2008, 11:45 pm Usingod
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Erms. I like the tag cloud. Quick glimpse will give a lil idea on what your blog is all about.
od’s last blog post..If you?re sleepy, just sleep, don’t do your work.
7 April 2008, 5:33 am UsingRay
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That’s true od, but at the same time, it’s a bit of a mess. Even when the tag clouds were first mooted I thought it was an ugly solution, but it’s the best we have I suppose.
7 April 2008, 9:49 am Usingod
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Yea, kinda messy, but I like it haha. I think I just fancy the font sizes
od’s last blog post..If you?re sleepy, just sleep, don’t do your work.
7 April 2008, 11:48 am UsingBob from Tampa Bay MLS
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Just wanted to add that make sure you delete all the files and folders that they say to delete in the instructions. I thought it would be okay to just overwrite them and I had a host of problems when I upgraded to 2.5.1
30 May 2008, 7:19 pm UsingRay
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Good point Bob. I fell foul of that once - never again!!
30 May 2008, 7:43 pm Usingjason from money merge account
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woohoo, WP has been due for an update @_@
6 June 2008, 8:35 pm UsingRay
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I’m expecting a point release in a few months
6 June 2008, 9:07 pm Using