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 some of the new features included in WordPress 2.7.
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How to Update WordPress Themes and Plugins on WPEngine (Without the Repository)
Reading time: 5 minutesSkip to the Tutorial My head is full and my heart is sad tonight. Thousands of WordPress users are left in a strange scenario today as Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s CEO and founder, pulled access to the WordPress Repository for thousands of users on WPEngine. WPEngine is officially cut off from all updates – plugins, themes,…
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WordPress MU: Promoting Posts from User Blogs
Reading time: 3 minutesA 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…