WordPress 2.7 Beta 1
November 3, 2008 by Emily
Around the Web
The first beta of WordPress 2.7 was released last week and it looks like 2.7 is going be a pretty fantastic release. 2.7 has some major improvements and rearrangements of the admin area, (hopefully) fixing many of the issues that people had with the new admin redesign when it was introduced in version 2.5.
Op111.net has a great list of eleven new features in 2.7 including mass editing of posts and pages, being able to reply to comments from the admin, threaded and paginated comments and much more.
2.7 was initially scheduled for a November 10th release, but they’ve pushed that back a couple of weeks for some extra time to perfect the release. There will be a release candidate coming out on the 10th and it will “be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use”. Then they will use the next few weeks to fix bugs that early adopters report before putting out the final release.
Until then, you can download the beta version and see what we have to look forward to. If you do try out the beta don’t forget to take these polls from the developers and let them know about your favorite features.
1 commentWordPress 2.6.3
October 24, 2008 by Emily
Around the Web
WordPress 2.6.3 has been released in response to a vulnerability in the Snoopy Library, which is what WP uses to fetch feeds in the dashboard. The good news is that only two files need to be replaced, so if you don’t want to download the whole release, just get these files and upload to the wp-includes directory and overwrite the old ones:
The Seasonal Sale!
October 8, 2008 by Emily
News
It’s now officially Fall, and it’ll be Winter before we know it and there are so many holidays to celebrate during these two seasons! Besides official holidays Swank Web Style will also be having it’s 3rd birthday in November. So to celebrate all these great holidays and thank all of our wonderful clients who have made the last three years so great, we’ve decided to have a sale on blog designs!
It’s actually two sales in one: Order a holiday or season themed blog design, redesign, or graphics and you’ll get 25% off the total price. If you’re not interested in a holiday design, you’ll still get 20% off a regular blog design.
The Seasonal Sale covers any holiday/season between now and February. This includes (but isn’t limited to):
- Fall
- Winter
- Pink for October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- New Years
- Valentine’s Day
This sale will be active between now and February, but we recommend you contact us ASAP, especially if you wanting a Fall, Halloween, or Christmas design. We understand that you may not want to spend the money on a completely new design, so this sale also includes redesigns or new graphics if you are just looking to give your current design a holiday/seasonal spin.
If you’re not interested in tricking out your blog for the holidays but still want a new design or redesign, then you’ll still get 20% off the total price! However, the regular blog design sale will expire at the end of our birthday month on November 30th, so you must inquire before then to get the discount.
