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I wrote a little bit ago on how amazing the new WordPress is, albeit at the time it was still in beta, still it proved itself for me. Well today it is official, and WordPress 2.7 has been released as a final. I took the opportunity to perform the upgrade and everything worked beautifully! For those that are interested, here are the steps I took to get things working right:

• First backup all of your files, and your database
• Make sure to backup your current theme, upload, and plugins directory
• Delete all files from the existing 2.x directory
• Download WordPress 2.7
• Configure config.php and upload to the new server along with all WordPress 2.7 files downloaded from the package
• Copy your theme, upload, and plugin files back to the server in their respective locations
• Navigate to the update page with the following URL: http://your-website.com/wp-admin/update.php

Once you do this, your website will be up and running and you should have direct access to it with the same login.

So far I am enjoying the new interface. It is deffinitly a step in the right direction and I am glad they have chosen to shorten the gap between a strict blogging interface to that of a CMS interface.

If you have WordPress questions or issues, feel free to send me a message.

I cannot stress it enough that websites must work properly on multiple browsers. Now, I am not talking about all of the hundreds of iterations and types out there, but the major 3 or 4 need to be covered at least. These include Internet Explorer (6, deff. 7), Firefox (2 and 3), Safari (curr. version), and maybe Opera (curr. version). Read More…

As some of you may have encountered, WordPress 2.6.3 may be causing issues with existing WordPress Lightbox plugins. At least, this was the case with my implementation. After some investigating, i was unable to resolve the issues and decided to venture out once again and find an appropriate plugin. Read More…

I got a chance to sit down and play with the new WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 that has been released. I have to tell you, this is going to be a fairly major overhaul for the existing suite of tools. I am impressed with the tool set being redone, and placed on the left of the screen. I really like how the sections within that toolbar are easy and manageable, without there being a separation between “writing” something and “Managing” it such as posts or pages. Having the layout on the administration side like that is about the best thing since sliced bread! I don’t have many details of what has been changing behind the scenes however, I did want to post up a few screen shots of this new beast. Read More…

I was testing the built in Gravatar support for the K2 platform today when I noticed that the URL structure was getting broken up when attempting to output the PHP code required in the comments-ajax.php file. The end result were no Gravatars showing up properly with the exception of Wordpress default avatars. I was not able to test fully, but realized there was a problem with the way K2 was linking out to retrieve the Grvatar. Read More…

I wanted to touch base with folks regarding Google’s highly useful Analytics tool which is free to use. When performing a statistical analysis of the people visiting your website, you want to make sure each and every aspect of the site is accounted for. This will drive your needs for content placement much further than simply “asking around.” Google has simplified the process of getting started, and I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the implementation of this free service. Read More…

I don’t think so! I just signed up as a way to basically have something to text about on my phone. I seem to text so infrequently, and I have unlimited texting! So the most obvious way to spend waste my time effectively, is with Twitter! So now I have yet another reason to burn my thumbs out with my phone. Read More…

I have implemented the Flickr RSS plugin for WordPress which surprisingly enough, works quite well as an SBM (Side Bar Module) with the K2 platform. It displays a nice RSS feed link, and the ability to display your photo-stream, with view options, or select sets that you want to be displayed. It has occurred to me that its important to keep administration overhead to an absolute minimum meaning that I do not want to have to much around with a lot of management control over my photo’s when I want them displayed properly with my site. Whew, ok so with that out of the way, and knowing that I needed to display a single set for my WordPress driven site, I needed to modify the Flickr RSS plugin to display my actual set instead of all of my photo-stream.

The short answer is that it worked beautifully. It polls what seems like on the hour for updates and refreshes my picture on my site. This is a small bit of functionality, but enough where I really wanted it to work well. Read More…