It seems like I’ve been upgrading my WordPress on a much more frequent basis than I would have anticipated. Not that long ago, I upgraded to 2.6, and WordPress is already working hard on the 2.7 upgrade. And we can have a say in the changes made to the 2.7 upgrade by going and taking the WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2. I think it is so great that the developers are asking our opinions. If you are a WordPress user, you should head over and tell the developers what you think about:
Where to put the search box
Where to put the Add New Post button/favorites menu
How to label the Future Publish/Edit Timestamp function
If these are features, you use and you have an opinion, be sure to head over and let the developers know your opinions. This is the second survey so you sould also watch closely. Maybe they’ll ask our opinions about some other features.
I read reports of some problems when publishing WordPress posts using Chrome so I thought I would take a moment to just sit here and write up a brief post with some different formatting commands and see how it goes.
One problem I read about is that it removes paragraphs that you’ve created when you publish so here is my second paragraph. Let’s see if it is still the second paragraph after I click publish.
How about
a bulleted
list? Will
that work?
And then there’s the all important quote…Can I create quotes in my posts when I use Google Chrome and WordPress?
Centering is Important to Lots of Folks
As well as Full Align Justification. That’s how I always create my posts so let’s see how this works. I’m curious to see if these posts publish justified.
I just upgraded my WordPress software to 2.6.1, and it was so easy. If you own your own domain and are responsible for your version of WordPress, I highly recommend that you install and activate the WordPress Automatic Update plugin. It makes everything so useful. I keep my deactivitated because I read somewhere that the more active plugins you have, the slower your pages load, and I have a lot of plugins that I just can’t part with, but then when I notice the message that their is a new WordPress version available, I activate it and update. WordPress users, update and check out the automatic upgrade plugin. You’ll soon wonder how you ever got along without it.
I’ve been playing with learning to build WordPress themes so the news that after an extended time WordPress has opened a new theme directory that will have added themes is pretty exciting. I’ve got some basic designs ready, but I’m trying to learn more about the language before I delve further into my graphics. If you are looking for a new theme for your blog and you use WordPress check out the new directory as it should continue to have more and more themes available.
Yea. I have officially upgraded to WordPress 2.6! I’m so excited. It went smoothly as far as I’ve been able to see so far. If you find any qwerks around here, please let me know. I’ll be sure to try to find a fix for it. If you had already upgraded to 2.5, you’ll see very few changes, but there are some that I’m excited about. One of them is that it does an automatic word count. I’m loving that already in this first post. It’s not so much that it always matters, but I’m always curious so I think this is a very nifty upgrade. (That was 104 words!) The only problem I’ve found is when my typing is really going the count can’t keep up with me, and I have to pause a minute and wait on it. That might just be my connection though. I’m not sure.
There are some other upgrades too. One other one I’m excited about is that when looking at themes, WordPress now has the ability to let you preview themes with your data without actually choosing the theme and making it visible to others. This is quite interesting and a real plus for me as I have been playing with themes and now it will be easier to test them out before sharing them with all of you!!
The final part that I think is a nice feature in this upgrade is the ability to put captions underneath our photos. I’ll be trying that out soon so be on the lookout for it.
If you use WordPress and want to upgrade, I highly recommend that you first install the plugin WordPress Automatic Upgrade. It is SOOO easy to upgrade using that plugin. It’s simply click and click just as if installing a piece of basic software on your computer. I have used it for both of the last two upgrades with complete success. *knock on wood*
If this will work, I’m now showing you a video from WordPress showing some of the upgrades.
