WordPress 2.7.1 Released
February 11, 2009 by Emily
Around the Web,Downloads
WordPress 2.7.1 was released late in the day yesterday. It’s a maintenance release as opposed to a security release, so you don’t need to rush to upgrade, but it does fix 68 bugs, which is always a good thing. Assuming you’ve already upgraded to 2.7 (if not, why haven’t you?) all you need to do is go to Tools>Upgrade and it will upgrade your blog in seconds.
The upgrade feature may not work for everyone depending on your host, but it should work for most major hosts. You can check to see if your host is on the list here. The upgrade feature works for all Swank Web Hosting clients, but feel free to contact us if you need help or if you haven’t upgraded to 2.7 yet and would like to. All Swank Web Hosting clients get free WP upgrades!
2 comments2009 Bloggies
January 22, 2009 by Emily
Around the Web,Clients,Honors
The finalists of the 2009 weblog awards were announced today and we are so happy to see so many of our wonderful clients on there. Be sure to check out all the finalists’ websites, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t give a little push to our clients:
Best Canadian Blog:
Attack of the Redneck Mommy
Cheaty Monkey
Best Art, Craft or Design Blog:
Craftastrophe (co-founded by one of our own, Karen)
Best Teen Blog:
Sarcastica
Best Kept Secret Blog:
Chickens in the Road
Congratulations to all the finalists! Go vote for your favs today. Voting closes on February 2 and winners are announced in March.
WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” Now Available!
December 11, 2008 by Emily
Around the Web,Downloads
After a bunch of betas and two release candidates the WordPress team has finally released WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” for download. 2.7 is a HUGE leap forward as far as the interface as well as new features it offers. The team has really been listening to it’s users and quietly going down the list adding the most requested features starting back in 2.5 earlier this year, but 2.7 is definitely the culmination of this.
The biggest difference in 2.7 is the new admin interface. Yes, another new admin interface. But this one seems to be here to stay (Matt says we should expect it to still basically be the same a year from now). It was developed with the user in mind to make the area simple to navigate and with as few clicks as possible. The dashboard and the Post pages are also almost completely customizable giving you the ability to drag and drop boxes wherever you want or removing them altogether. Also, don’t forget to check “Your Profile” under Users as the 2.5 color scheme feature is still there and personally, I think the blue color scheme is much nicer than the default gray one.
Perhaps the best new feature in 2.7 is finally the ability to perform one-click upgrades directly from the admin area. No more manual upgrades! No more having to pay your designer to do your upgrades (believe me we don’t mind!). Related to this is the new plugin interface which lets you search for and install new plugins from the plugins database directly inside your admin area. With the plugins database integrated the themes database can’t be that far behind!
Also new is the Comments and Post/Page management interfaces. You can reply to comments directly for the admin now. If you need to edit a category or a tag on a post, you no longer need to open the whole post up, just use the quick edit link to change those things directly from the post management page.
For comments, they have also added new features like threaded comments and paged comments. However, these features will need to be added to your current template, they won’t work unless you have a 2.7 compatible theme. If you need help making your theme 2.7 compatible (or even 2.5 compatible since many themes still don’t support gravatars) feel free to contact us and we can get you set up with all these snazzy new features.
So what are you waiting for? Upgrade your blog today! We can help if you need it, and just think, next time you’ll be able to upgrade with a the click of a button! This is not one of those releases where you need to wait around and see if anything goes wrong. As I mentioned above, there have been several betas and release candidates, plus it already went live on WordPress.com, so millions of people are already using it. This is a very strong release with features that you don’t want to miss out on.
Here’s a nice visual introduction video:
Here are some resources to check out plugin/theme compatibility as well as upgrading your theme to use new 2.7 features:
- 2.7 Plugin Compatibility
- 2.7 Theme Compatibility
- Migrating your Plugins and Themes to 2.7
- How to Create a 2.7 Compatible Comments.php
