July 15, 2008

WordPress 2.6

Christian Decker wrote this in the early evening:
WordPress 2.6 has been released:
I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5. WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.6
After the amazing 2.5 release with its hundreds of new features this release seems to be a bit minimalistic, but I installed it anyway. Actually this post is being written from the new Press This button which is a feature I’ve seen some years ago, but then disappeared again. Using WP-Cache I had no downtime at all, since all my posts were cached and served from that cache :-)

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April 15, 2008

wp-openid doesn’t work with Wordpress 2.5

Christian Decker wrote this mid-afternoon:
Apparently the OpenID plugin for Wordpress is incompatible with version 2.5 of Wordpress. As much as I like OpenID I’m forced to disable it until there is a compatible version. I’m sorry for all my readers and commenters that use OpenID on this blog and I’m looking forward to when I’ll reactivate it :P

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March 30, 2008

Wordpress 2.5

Christian Decker wrote this in the late afternoon:
WordPress 2.5 has been released with a major overhaul to the interface and a range of new features. The biggest change is in the appearance of the administration backend, which is described as being a “Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard.” The WordPress dashboard is now widget friendly, and users can include items such as stats, offering similar functionality to MovableType. Other new features include multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, code friendly WYSIWYG, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and improved search. A demo video from Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg above, and further details on the WordPress blog here.

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February 12, 2008

Commentluv: my way of saying thanks for your comments

Christian Decker wrote this in the wee hours:
Today I stumbled across the CommentLuv Plugin and I love it. It is my way of saying thanks for all of your comments: all users that add their blog address will have a link to their last blog entries added at the bottom of their comment. Or as the plugins author puts it:
Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward but why not place a link to their last post under their comment, with CommentLuv, you can do that automatically! This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers.
it’s a really good addition to every blog and I hope it makes an impact on the comments ^^

BTW: sadly only new comments are counted, so people comment, comment, comment :D

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October 29, 2007

Wordpress update

Christian Decker wrote this mid-afternoon:

Well it was about time, so I finally upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress for the blog. Some of you might have noticed a change in the URLs: the blog now has its own subdomain.

I didn’t want to lose the incoming links as they are the main entry point to the blog, so I had some hacking to do, but it worked out pretty well. Basically I’m using the HTTP code 301 (Moved Permanently) to redirect all visitors to the new URL.

Oh, and last but not least I expect to restart blogging more frequently soon, as I wont be so swamped as I am now, so expect some tutorials and stuff coming up :D

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