…we’ve come a long way from this: …to this… …with a brief stop here… …and to where we are today! And how sweet it is! (thanks to Ozh for a wonderful post – if you aren’t familiar with WordPress, head to his site for a history lesson!)
WordPress 2.7 is nothing short of amazing. The WordPress team (and 150 others from the community) went back to the drawing board and redesigned the interface from the ground up. It’s absolutely beautiful, and a testament to great design and an amazing user interface. But it’s not just pretty, it’s awesome under the hood! Never again will you have to update WordPress by hand. …
Step 1: Get a great product (you’d be surprised how many people forget this step…) Step 2: Install WordPress Step 3: Set up a static front page (Settings > Reading)… create a page called “front page” and a page called “blog”. Head to the options menu and select the reading tab. Change the “Front Page Displays…” options to ‘Front Page: front page’ and ‘Posts…
The rumors are WordPress 2.7 will be coming to a download near you sometime tonight. Release Candidate 1 is widely successful and I’m really looking forward to upgrading to the full version. If you’re curious as to what the future entails, here are some great posts around the Internet showcasing the new goodness: The Official Codex Entry First Look at WordPress 2.7 A Tour…
A lot of people have been asking me to explain some of the new features in WordPress 2.7 - the main ones are the admin Interface and some of the new, movable widget-like items in the post menu and on the dashboard. But, it's hard to talk about visual changes when, to be honest, you can't see them. Enjoy this >5 minute screencast on…
A long point of contention with WordPress MU users is the inability to "promote" posts from the user pages to the main blog feed. This causes a disjoint between the bloggers and the site administrators who want to share the content their users are creating. Other content management systems have this feature built-in, but WordPress users have been trying workarounds (with little success) to…
I've been playing around with some really cool features in WordPress lately. With my site, and a few others i've been working on, I've been toying with the "Page Template" feature that allows me to customize which elements show up on a page (like, a sidebar, specific headers, a footer, etc). But, while working specifically on The Film Talk for Jett Loe, I developed/discovered…
First of all, I updated WordPress to its new version as soon as I was able. I've been very excited to see some of the new features they've added, and I have my list of the top ones to look foward to. There aren't any major interface changes this time, but (just like any great application) the best changes come on the inside. Also…
For your viewing pleasure, and because I've had the lovely honor to update this morning, here is a "best of the best" video (and a link to the full post) as to what to expect for WordPress 2.6 (Tyner). Enjoy!
Now that everyone and their mother has gone out and bought a shiny new iPhone (yesterday was the 3G iPhone's release date, after all), it's time you made your WordPress theme a bit more iPhone friendly. Enter the iWphone WordPress theme from Content Robot. It places a special theme in your themes folder that is accessed whenever you look at your site on an…