gHacks technology news » blogging software http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Wordpress 2.7 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/11/wordpress-27/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/11/wordpress-27/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:26:44 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8906 The Wordpress team has published version 2.7 of Wordpress yesterday. The first thing that users will notice is the new administration interface which was completely redone to optimize processes. The development team claims that nearly every task in Wordpress 2.7 will take fewer clicks than it took in previous versions of the blogging platform.

The development focus was usability as Wordpress 2.7 brings in a few exciting new features to the table. The long awaited option to moderate comments from the admin interface, mass editing of posts or automatic upgrades of plugins and the blog software itself are just a few of the new features.

Another new and exciting option is the ability to remove and position elements on the screen. This streamlines the Wordpress admin interface quite a bit by bringing the needed elements closer together while removing everything that is not needed. Well, almost everything. Some elements cannot be removed obviously like the post form.

It will take some time getting used to the new Wordpress admin interface as it moves the menu entries from the header to the left menu.

The update should not pose to many difficulties. The only problem that you can encounter are plugin incompatibilities. The Simple Tags plugin was one out of a dozen plugins that was not working with Wordpress and you might have noticed display problems here at Ghacks earlier thanks to that. There is however an easy temporary fix for that to make the plugin compatible.

All that needs to be done is to edit the simple-tags.php file. Look for the line

if (version_compare($wp_version, '2.5', '>='))

and replace it with the following

if ( strpos($wp_version, '2.5') !== false || strpos($wp_version, '2.6') !== false )

This should ensure compatibility.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/11/wordpress-27/feed/ 7 Wordpress 2.2 is out http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/16/wordpress-22-is-out/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/16/wordpress-22-is-out/#comments Wed, 16 May 2007 06:49:15 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/16/wordpress-22-is-out/ The blogging software Wordpress has been updated by the development team and the new Wordpress 2.2 has been published. This new version can be downloaded from the official Wordpress website. It contains over 200 bug fixes and several new features. most notably widget support. I encourage anyone who is running Wordpress to update their blog immediately even if you can live without widget support. Security concerns and the bug fixes should be enough to upload the new version at once.

Besides that i really like the following three new features which should make live a little bit easier:

  • Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server
  • We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
  • Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page.

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