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WP Admin Area Options

April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Downloads

If you’ve already upgraded to WordPress 2.5, then you know that 2.5 brings a BIG change to the admin area.  Automattic worked with a team from Happy Cog Studios to redesign the admin area for greater ease and usability.  However, while this improvement may help users new to WordPress, people used to the old admin area may be having some issues acclimating to the new interface.  In fact some “power users” downright hate it.  While that’s a perfectly valid point of view, I consider myself a power user, and I actually really like the new interface.  That’s not … Continue reading »


Posted by Emily @ 3:04 pm   

Have you upgraded yet?

April 16, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

WordPress 2.5 has been out for over 2 weeks, have you upgraded yet? I waited about a week to make sure there were no major issues right after the release, but as of this past weekend all my personal/business WP sites as well an a good portion of my client’s sites have been upgraded. If you haven’t upgraded yet, what are you waiting for?

I’ve come across several bloggers who are waiting for the release of 2.5.1. I can’t really blame them for this logic. It should fix all of the major bugs that have cropped up … Continue reading »


Posted by Emily @ 4:20 pm   

WordPress 2.5 has been released!

March 29, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

WordPress 2.5 is finally out today. From the Dev Blog:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

Read the rest at Wordpress.org’s newly redesigned website!

Go download the new release and upgrade your site today.

Want to know more? … Continue reading »


Posted by Emily @ 12:43 pm   

Web 101: Full vs Partial Feeds

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Web 101

Over at the Blog Herald, there’s a great article on why people shouldn’t be using partial feeds. The author makes a lot of good points, essentially boiling it down to the fact that there are no benefits to using a partial feed. It doesn’t deter sploggers from stealing your content and it doesn’t bring extra traffic to your site; you are basically just frustrating your regular readers and alienating new ones. Read the full article for more.

What I find funny is his rationalizing of why it’s okay for some blogs (*ahem* the one he’s … Continue reading »


Posted by Emily @ 4:12 pm   

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April 2, 2008 -

If you are having any problems with your 2.5 installation or are just generally confused about where certain things are now, this post at Weblog Tools Collection has a very comprehensive list of helpful answers and fixes to problems.

Update: More FAQs.


February 12, 2008 -

The extremely useful Share This social bookmarking plugin by Alex King (that we use on this very blog) is now available for TypePad and Blogger users! In addition to that, registered users now have access to snazzy new usage reports for the plugin.


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