While numerous blogs discussing the facelift WordPress 2.7 received (what with new colors, icons and all), the two subtle details I noticed that hint at the shift in philosophy of what WordPress really is and what it plans to offer the end user (in terms of built-in options) were seldom noted. Here’s my brief two cents after using the latest release of WordPress 2.7 from the nightly build on local install.
WordPress has indeed come a long way. Long enough that we went from calling the front end of the blog a template, and then a presentation, and …
We released a new advanced WordPress theme called Gaia at HeadsetOptions. This is the very theme that inspired the redesign of WPPro.org. Check the screenshots and you can tell the similarities. But looks are all that is similar, the codes and CSS are nowhere near one another.
WPPro.org was built using Blueprint CSS Framework, the CSS tool that I have fallen in love with. What this allows me to do is include unique XHTML tags within a post to give it a different feel and look. With this set up, I could also change the looks of the site itself, without breaking any post customization. Also, the …
When I started helping wpSnap on some of their technical issues last year, I realized that there was a lot of room to improve with the way conditional tags were written and addressed to produce the site that has among other things, featured listings, blogs and other WP themes all meshed into one pile of data in the backend. So when I was asked to redesign1 the site last month, I went a step ahead and offered to redo the backend as well.
The most prolific of issues on wpSnap (and other multi-author sites) seem to have stemmed from a new feature that was rolled into WordPress …
Al might think he “invented the internet“, but he sure failed to upgrade his WordPress inatall, which resulted in negative publicity for the best open CMS out there. His site was powered by version 2.0.4, which as Matt points out was released a good 16 months ago, and even beats the version I was running on my other site just a few weeks ago (with my own patch nonetheless). My excuse, I did not invent the …
Have you found yourself wanting to display a piece of code in your blog post or a comment form that left you stripping off elements or re-pasting it over and over only to find that the code is actually being executed? I run in this issue a lot while replying to support questions, so I conveniently remove the “<” and “>” of all HTML tags and PHP scripts to allow the codes to to be displayed without execution, this however cause more harm than help to the novice user and the experience is never that pleasant. Help is finally …
