Archive for the 'Wordpress' Category

Wordpress 2.6 released

WP 2.6 is out early, almost a month ahead of schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS like tracking changes to every post and page and making it easier to post from anywhere on the web. Also, there are a dozen improvements and bugfixes compared to wp2.5

WP-ShortStat plugin : Blog Statistics

Get statistics like visitor’s browser type, OS, total hits etc. from the admin panel of your wordpress blog with WP-Shortstat plugin.

blog stats from admin panel - wp shortstats

Wordpress 2.5 Demo site

WP Version 2.5 has a scheduled release in March 10, 2008. There is a demo site for the most current development version of WordPress. It can be found here

wordpress 2.5 demo site login

Login: admin
Password: demo

Screenshot of  admin backend

wordpress 2.5 administrator backend screenshot

Simple Wordpress stuff

A simple and easy to understand Wordpress Guide can be found at

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/

Upgrading from Wordpress 2.3.1 to 2.3.2

Why is it that WP doesnt have an option like “auto update” or at the least, a smaller upgrade package instead of having to upload the whole latest package and run the installation all over again ?

Anyways, after a lot of googling, i came across Deimos page with a re-packaged update.

Download the Re-Packaged files here:
http://ahkong.net/index.php?dl_id=1

Installation Notes
Just “copy and paste” or “upload and overwrite” the following “List of Updated Files” which is included in the re-packaged zip file archive available for download in the above link.

Differences :  WP 2.3.2 against 2.3.1
wp-admin/includes/file.php (modified) (1 diff)
wp-admin/admin.php (modified) (1 diff)
wp-admin/setup-config.php (modified) (2 diffs)
wp-admin/install.php (modified) (4 diffs)
wp-includes/formatting.php (modified) (1 diff)
wp-includes/functions.php (modified) (5 diffs)
wp-includes/post.php (modified) (2 diffs)
wp-includes/pluggable.php (modified) (1 diff)
wp-includes/taxonomy.php (modified) (1 diff)
wp-includes/query.php (modified) (2 diffs)
wp-includes/version.php (modified) (1 diff)
wp-includes/wp-db.php (modified) (9 diffs)
wp-app.php (modified) (6 diffs)
wp-mail.php (modified) (3 diffs)
wp-settings.php (modified) (1 diff)
xmlrpc.php (modified) (18 diffs)

From Blogger to Wordpress

“What was your biggest ‘blogging’ mistake ?” - put this question to anyone who has a blog hosted on Blogger and you’ll almost get a unanimous reply - they wish they had started on a personal web domain…

How true.. Amit has a great post on this.. Read on at DI..