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Posts Tagged ‘plugin’

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 »

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Posted by Emily @ 3:04 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 »

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Posted by Emily @ 12:43 pm

Notice to Swank Web Hosting Customers

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: News

*UPDATE* - The server has been upgraded and optimized this weekend for better performance. It’s currently being monitored very closer should any other issues pop up. Also, we have verified that the WordPress comment notification problem has been fixed and notifications are now being received.

We want to let you know that the server transfer is complete. We apologize for any issues you have been experiencing in the past few days. We are working on stabilizing the server right now. It was better today than yesterday and it should only improve from now on. This … Continue reading »

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Posted by Emily @ 6:49 pm

WordPress 2.5 RC1 available

March 18, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Matt has just made an announcement on the Dev blog that the WP 2.5 Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing. He also goes into some specifics about the new version and what we have to look forward to when 2.5 is finally released:

“A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting to you? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit … Continue reading »

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Posted by Emily @ 3:43 am

Around the Web

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.