I just received an email from the WordPress Development mailing list outlining some of the major developments in WordPress 2.9. Here’s what to it says: WordPress 2.9 is currently in beta and is expected to be ready in several weeks. Major new features for developers: - comments meta table - improved support for...
As you can see, I’ve rolled out a new theme to this website. It’s an awesome theme called Freshtweet which incorporates a number of Twitter-ish ideas. Here are some of the great features: Change color styles with a single click Choose a featured category via the theme options area Integrate Feedburner and Email...
I woke up this morning to find that WordPress 2.8 has finally be released. It was promised for the 10th June, but as I’m based in Europe, I didn’t get to see it till today. I’ve been running the RC down at WordPressGuru and haven’t really had any major problems....
Image via Wikipedia I came across a good post that outlines the main differences between using Joomla and WordPress as a CMS. It’s not too long, and goes into what it considers the main differences between the two platforms, notably that Joomla is designed for more complex multi-user content managed sites;...
If you’ve tried personalising TweetRoll recently you’d have noticed that you can now change the captions on the widget. This came as a request from @rogier_florjin who wanted to come up with a localised version of the widget to match the language on his blog. You’ll see a new section...
If you’re interested in learning more about Wordpress, check out http://wordpress.tv. It’s a collection of videos about WordPress, how to do different things, how to implement different functions and snippets from presentations that people have given. It’s a great resource that will grow with time, but already have a number of...
I came across a Wordpress theme that looks interesting today. It’s called WP Remix and is designed to help turn Wordpress into a more “CMS-style” package, making use of a selection of different templates to let you create different page styles. I found the page layouts quite interesting, because a...