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WordPress 2.9 is still in beta and being tested. But I have heard of these two new features:
THE TRASH CAN When you delete a post, page, category, comment, or any bit of content, it is moved to the Trash where you can decide whether to pull it back at a later date.
IMAGE EDITOR ALTHOUGH SIMPLE... Image editing will allow bloggers to crop, scale and rotate images from right within WordPress.
I have been a member of Biznik close to two years now and love the community here! The threads that I have enjoyed in the past are the ones that fall under here -- "Community Discussion". Often great conversation, ideas and collaboration comes out of here.
But recently, more and more, I have seen members blatantly listing promotions of services and/or events here, and nothing more. Are these discussions? Should they not stay where they belong, in the "Promotions" or the "Calendar"? I find myself going to the Community-wide Discussions forum less and less only for that reason.
What are your thoughts?
Just an FYI on my own WordPress events. After the one in mid-November I am taking a break as everyone will be involved with the holidays. But will come back again in January!
Yes, it's that time again. Soon the beta of WP 2.9 will be coming out. And if you have the nerve, courage or energy to be part of the testing, you can read more about it here.
It's not for the weak-hearted ; )
Once it comes out and I dive into it, I will share my war stories here at WordPress chatter!
Ever Had A Client Try To Talk You Down In Price? If you have, you really need to watch this video on Danny Brown's blog. It's hilarious, and scary at the same time!
Corbet had asked me to list a few premium WordPress theme resources for this group. From experience, I have found these to be worth the money. Remember, you get what you pay for!
Two great reasons to buy a premium theme!
1) They upgrade when WordPress upgrades and fix any possible bugs! 2) Great support.
So here is my shortlist. There are a lot more out therel, but I have had personal experience with all of these and can vouch for them.
WordCamp Seattle is coming on Sept. 26th. So far they have a tentative speaker lineup, and it's looking good!
Registration is now open. Sign up for their feed and or follow them on twitter to keep posted.
Hope to see you there!
PS Since this post WordCamp filled up fast. In fact they have a waiting list!
Are you going to Gnomedex 9.0? Hundreds of the world's leading bloggers, podcasters, videobloggers, and tech-savvy enthusiasts will once again descend upon the city of Seattle, Washington from August 20 – 22, 2009. The ninth Gnomedex conference is generating a fair amount of buzz in the blogosphere, which underscores our reason to produce it. Indeed, we will once again become the crossroads between producers and observers, between users and developers.
I would love to hear if any other Bizniks are going so that we can connect and network! Hope to see there.
Did you know that the WordPress Extend lists over 5,800 plugins with over 40 million downloads?
Have you ever wondered what the difference is? Or maybe you weren't aware of both options and their differences. If so, check out my article, Ending the Confusion: WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
To celebrate WooThemes new blog, if you buy one premium theme, you will be 3 free one's. A 4 for 1 offer. It's good till June 24th. Check it out here.
When using paid premium themes, you can often remove the theme name, and many developers also remove the "powered by WordPress". So how can you tell if it's a WordPress website?
One way is through your browser find the option that allows you to look at the source code. In that source code, you can see references to some well-known WP plugins.
As of Wed., June 10th, WordPress 2.8 is out. There are some nice new features, nothing major, but worth checking out.
If you are on WordPress.com, you are updated automatically.
If you have your WordPress on your own server, when updating, remember to:
Backup your database and files before updating.
If you are using a free theme or a paid premium theme, find out if they have made it WordPress 2.8-compatible. If they haven't, try the update, but again remember to backup. If your theme has issues, upload the old files again and wait till your theme is updated before going to 2.8 again.
If you do need to update your theme, and you had someone customize it, talk to them before installing the updated version of your theme.
After updating, if your blog or website starts having problems, deactivate any plugins one by one to see if that is what's causing the issue.
Check your widgets and make sure they are working with the new version.
And finally, don't feel you have to update right away. Make sure you eventually do it, but you don't need to be the first one on your block!
If anyone else has suggestions or insights, please let us know.
As of Wed., June 10th, WordPress 2.8 is out. There are some nice new features, nothing major, but worth checking out.
If you are on WordPress.com, you are updated automatically.
If you have your WordPress on your own server, when updating, remember to:
Backup your database and files before updating.
If you are using a free theme or a paid premium theme, find out if they have made it WordPress 2.8-compatible. If they haven't, try the update, but again remember to backup. If your theme has issues, upload the old files again and wait till your theme is updated before going to 2.8 again.
If you do need to update your theme, and you had someone customize it, talk to them before installing the updated version of your theme.
After updating, if your blog or website starts having problems, deactivate any plugins one by one to see if that is what's causing the issue.
Check your widgets and make sure they are working with the new version.
And finally, don't feel you have to update right away. Make sure you eventually do it, but you don't need to be the first one on your block!
A new resource: Problogger Darren Rowse's incredible and affordable ebook, "31 Days to a Better Blog" is out and the price is just $19.95. If you have started a blog and don't know what to do next, or you've been blogging for a while but growth has slowed, this book is for you. Click here to learn more or to purchase this ebook.
With the WordPress 2.8 coming out in a few days, anyone one of us is wondering if our plugins will work! Here is a great resource brought out by Brave New Code. Check it out here
WordPress Beta 2.8 has been out for a bit and I have finally taken some time to look at the new features. There's some good stuff there! I won't take the time to go through them all, but here are some that are worth highlighting.
THEMES Now you can upload themes through the admin panel. In 2.7 and older, you needed to use FTP clients. And since there are a lot of WordPress users out there that don't get "ftp" they limited themselves to the preinstalled themes. And an added benefit: now you can browse themes and search via keywords, and also apply filters too based on width, colours and columns. In addition the management of themes has improved. Before, you had to select the theme you wanted, and then either press activate or close after viewing a preview of the theme. Now you get options to activate immediately if you want, and also to delete the theme if you want as well.
WIDGETS AND PLUGINS Although there isn't any major change to the widget view, it it a lot cleaner and easier to use. As far as plugins, you can now edit them from within your editor. If a plugin is not working well, and you have the know how in coding, you can tweak it in order to get it working correctly.
COMMENTS The new option to edit individual comments from the edit post selection saves a bit of time to do the standard delete, spam and reply to comments.
DASHBOARD Again, just a bit making things a bit easier, you can now change the look of your dashboard and can set the number of columns that you want to be shown. Anything from one to four columns is allowed.
NOTE: If you are on the free WordPress.com, some of the features are not available.
So that's just a quick preview. There is a whole bunch of other changes and improvements, but for most WordPress users, these are the one's that will be more obvious. Not sure when we are looking at for the full release, but the Beta version does seem pretty stable. In any case, it's just around the corner.
If you have explored the beta version, let me know your thoughts.
If you are on WordPress.com, and have been trying to figure out how to add your logo on the sidebar with a link to your website, check out these 9 simple steps.
At problogger he recently did a couple great posts that you my find interesting and informative.
Designing a Custom WordPress Theme - Working with a Designer Part 1
Designing a Custom WordPress Theme - Working with a Designer Part 2
I just posted some tips on my blog that will help you choose your host for your WordPress site. I have recommended Bluehost.com and Hostgator.com. Check out the tips at this link and if you have other hosts that support WordPress, let us know.
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