The biggest difference you will see after Upgrading to Wordpress 2.7 is the new Dashboard in the administrators area. Just login to your new or upgraded Wordpress 2.7 website and you will see what I mean!
The whole Dashboard has been radically designed by the developers at Wordpress and a very good job they have done on it. It may take you a while to get used to, but you will soon be wondering how you ever got by without it.
Introduction To The Wordpress 2.7 Dashboard
When you log in as the Wordpress administrator at your website (yourdomain.com/wp-admin) you will see a very different layout than that in previous versions.
The major benefits from a user perspective are that the newly designed Dashboard has much more funtionality then before and can be totally customised by you to suit your style and method of work.
Movable, Collapsible and Hideable Screen Component Modules
Just like the way that more recnt version of Wordpress have allowed you to move the positions of widgets in sidebars, you can now rearrange the modules within the central area of the dashboard screen.
Just grab the heading of any module with your mouse and drag the module to it’s new location in the dashboard (click on the heading and hold down the click while moving the cursor with your mouse).
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
WordPress Is Tops for 2009
WordPress 2.5 won .net magazine’s Open source application of the year for 2009 (issue 184). WordPress is an awesome blogging platform and CMS. It deserves all the accolades it receives.
Version 2.7 is better yet (I upgraded three blogs in the past day). Thanks a bunch, Matt. And congratulations.
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Version 2.7 is better yet (I upgraded three blogs in the past day). Thanks a bunch, Matt. And congratulations.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
WordPress 2.7: If You Don't Like It, Change It
The last time WordPress - the popular open source blogging platform - changed their user interface, they got a reaction. And it wasn't positive. Even diehard fans were questioning the reasoning behind the changes, trying to figure out ways to work within the new construct, or simply throwing their hands up in despair. So, it comes as little surprise that the latest release, WordPress 2.7 - codenamed "Coltrane" - has had a great deal of time and energy focused on improving that interface. But could the WordPress development team win back the adoration of those angry users with yet another interface change?
If the initial reactions are any indication, the answer would be yes. Now, those same users who were hating WordPress 2.5 are gushing that WordPress 2.7 interface "reeks of pure awesome."
Personally, I experienced a similar reaction when I saw Coltrane demoed in front of the WordCamp Portland crowd in September. Jaws were dropping. I swear there were "Oohs," "Ahs," and spontaneous applause. (Which I guess is appropriate for a release named after a jazz legend.) Everyone - from new user to WordPress developer - was downright giddy.
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If the initial reactions are any indication, the answer would be yes. Now, those same users who were hating WordPress 2.5 are gushing that WordPress 2.7 interface "reeks of pure awesome."
Personally, I experienced a similar reaction when I saw Coltrane demoed in front of the WordCamp Portland crowd in September. Jaws were dropping. I swear there were "Oohs," "Ahs," and spontaneous applause. (Which I guess is appropriate for a release named after a jazz legend.) Everyone - from new user to WordPress developer - was downright giddy.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.7
Wordpress 2.7 has just been released. James is doing some testing on the upgrade and will apply it to all OM4 sites soon as the testing is finished.
There are a lot of new features that you will notice when using your dashboard that will make it faster and easier to update your website:
overall you can complete tasks faster (less clicks)
the Page Editor is customisable so you can put the buttons you use most frequently where you want them
your dashboard can be arranged with drag and drop
comments are now threaded and you can reply to comments from your dashboard
I’ve included a link to the Wordpress video at the end of this post if you want to see a demonstration.
When we first started working with Wordpress it was relatively new. Some people looked at me a bit strangely when they asked what we were building our web platform on and I said Wordpress. Even if they had heard of it, it was open source, and not everyone gets the idea of open source.
Wordpress has proven to be an exceptional platform for business websites.
One reason is that it is used by so many people. Over 3 million people downloaded version 2.6 (to install on their own server), and almost 5 million blogs run on Wordpress via Wordpress.com. With such a large user community, bugs get ironed out quickly. One of the more popular Wordpress plugins has been downloaded almost a million times.
According to Wordpress, for release 2.7 “over 150 people contributed code directly to the release, our highest ever, with many tens of thousands more participating in the polls, surveys, tests, mailing lists, and other feedback mechanisms the WordPress dev team used in putting this release together.”
So in hindsight, choosing to build our business website platform on Wordpress looks like a pretty good decision. By running on Wordpress, you will continue to benefit from the R&D and testing that goes into the platform, and we can focus on configuring it to work as a platform to run a small business online.
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There are a lot of new features that you will notice when using your dashboard that will make it faster and easier to update your website:
overall you can complete tasks faster (less clicks)
the Page Editor is customisable so you can put the buttons you use most frequently where you want them
your dashboard can be arranged with drag and drop
comments are now threaded and you can reply to comments from your dashboard
I’ve included a link to the Wordpress video at the end of this post if you want to see a demonstration.
When we first started working with Wordpress it was relatively new. Some people looked at me a bit strangely when they asked what we were building our web platform on and I said Wordpress. Even if they had heard of it, it was open source, and not everyone gets the idea of open source.
Wordpress has proven to be an exceptional platform for business websites.
One reason is that it is used by so many people. Over 3 million people downloaded version 2.6 (to install on their own server), and almost 5 million blogs run on Wordpress via Wordpress.com. With such a large user community, bugs get ironed out quickly. One of the more popular Wordpress plugins has been downloaded almost a million times.
According to Wordpress, for release 2.7 “over 150 people contributed code directly to the release, our highest ever, with many tens of thousands more participating in the polls, surveys, tests, mailing lists, and other feedback mechanisms the WordPress dev team used in putting this release together.”
So in hindsight, choosing to build our business website platform on Wordpress looks like a pretty good decision. By running on Wordpress, you will continue to benefit from the R&D and testing that goes into the platform, and we can focus on configuring it to work as a platform to run a small business online.
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Monday, December 8, 2008
WordPress.com Goes Gravatar Crazy
The old avatar tool in your WordPress.com profiles has been replaced with your current Gravatar (left.) If you click on that icon you’ll be taken to Gravatar.com (and automatically logged into your account) where you can easily change your image (right). You can upload an image from your computer, paste in a link to an image on the internet, or even take a picture of yourself using your computers webcam. Cropping and rating your images are as easy as ever. After you finish your new image will automatically attach to your email address (assuming you only have one email address on your account,) or you will be presented with a simple-as-pie list of your email addresses, and you can attach the new image to any or all of them! Just close the Gravatar window when you’re done.
Of course all of the standard Gravatar features are available to you. Upload as many images as you wish, switch them as often as you like, add as many email addresses as you want to your account, and more features still in the works.
If you find that you have an “old” image for your Gravatar, simply click on the link to change it and then click on the “Use your last WordPress.com Avatar” link to get the new one back. There are bound to be some small hiccups here and there. Just let Support know when something doesn’t work quite right, and we’ll get everything ironed out in no time.
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Of course all of the standard Gravatar features are available to you. Upload as many images as you wish, switch them as often as you like, add as many email addresses as you want to your account, and more features still in the works.
If you find that you have an “old” image for your Gravatar, simply click on the link to change it and then click on the “Use your last WordPress.com Avatar” link to get the new one back. There are bound to be some small hiccups here and there. Just let Support know when something doesn’t work quite right, and we’ll get everything ironed out in no time.
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WordPress.com gets WordPress 2.7 features
Automattic has now implemented the WP 2.7 edition on their WordPress.com blogging portal.
The final version of WP 2.7 is not yet released though users can get their hands on a near release RC edition.
This hints at the possibility of near future release of version 2.7 for the self hosted version users.
WordPress 2.7 is a major update to this popular open source blogging platform. Some users might admit that it could have been the version 3 of WordPress.
The back end has been massively updated to make it more user friendly. They have totally revamped the editing screen compared to previous version.
We have been using the RC version of WP 2.7 since quite sometime and we like what we see.
Read More..
The final version of WP 2.7 is not yet released though users can get their hands on a near release RC edition.
This hints at the possibility of near future release of version 2.7 for the self hosted version users.
WordPress 2.7 is a major update to this popular open source blogging platform. Some users might admit that it could have been the version 3 of WordPress.
The back end has been massively updated to make it more user friendly. They have totally revamped the editing screen compared to previous version.
We have been using the RC version of WP 2.7 since quite sometime and we like what we see.
Read More..
WordPress.com gets WordPress 2.7 features
Automattic has now implemented the WP 2.7 edition on their WordPress.com blogging portal.
The final version of WP 2.7 is not yet released though users can get their hands on a near release RC edition.
This hints at the possibility of near future release of version 2.7 for the self hosted version users.
WordPress 2.7 is a major update to this popular open source blogging platform. Some users might admit that it could have been the version 3 of WordPress.
The back end has been massively updated to make it more user friendly. They have totally revamped the editing screen compared to previous version.
We have been using the RC version of WP 2.7 since quite sometime and we like what we see.
Read More...
The final version of WP 2.7 is not yet released though users can get their hands on a near release RC edition.
This hints at the possibility of near future release of version 2.7 for the self hosted version users.
WordPress 2.7 is a major update to this popular open source blogging platform. Some users might admit that it could have been the version 3 of WordPress.
The back end has been massively updated to make it more user friendly. They have totally revamped the editing screen compared to previous version.
We have been using the RC version of WP 2.7 since quite sometime and we like what we see.
Read More...
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