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WordPress Themes Site

Aug 17

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber in Wordpress, blogs, templates | No Comments

I’m on a roll! You can never have too many themes for your blog, now can you? ;) This one is WPRex – free wordpress themes. It touts itself as the “Best Free WordPress Themes For Free.” The themes are very nice. Many of them are the popular magazine style. I rather like the Elegant News and Magnalitus themes. I’ve been searching for a new theme for this blog (I have never found one that I liked *just right*), so I’ll be hunting again, when I have more time.

You can search by color, columns, theme topic, etc. No registration or login is required to download a theme, either (I hate that). Nice themes here, check them out.

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Another- ANOTHER- WordPress Update

Aug 4

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber in Wordpress, blogs | 2 Comments

Oh my word. LOL. There’s another update!!! WordPress users, you’ve probably seen the little notification in your blog dashboard. WordPress 3.0.1 is out. Looks like it’s a maintenance upgrade, taking care of a bunch of issues missed in the last upgrade.

I love WP, I really do. It is GREAT. But the updates keep me in a tizzy. I have 13 blogs… updating them every couple of weeks is a real pain, especially when they are insignificant kinds of upgrades. Couldn’t they have thoroughly tested 3.0 before issuing it?!

I don’t mean to complain… they WP dudes do a superb job. WP is beautiful stuff. But I am *sigh* tired of updating everything. Again. And again.

Oh well. :D At least they’ve made it easier! :)

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I Survived the Update to 3.0

Jul 13

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber in Wordpress, blogs, desktop publishing | No Comments

Well, I took the plunge. To WordPress 3.0.

For you WordPress newbies out there, I remember the olden days, back… Ohhhh… TWO years ago before WP incorporated the automatic upgrade feature. Back then, we used to have to update our blogs manually. As in SAVE everything first. As in upload (via FTP) all the new files. As in “hold your breath and pray it doesn’t explode” updates. Nothing bad every happened to me, thankfully, (didn’t stop me from making billions of backups, though), but I heard horror stories about folks whose entire blogs self-destructed.

Anyway, it’s easier now. But the old terror still clings as I hit the “upgrade now!” button.

All’s well that ends well. I updated 12 blogs, and all are OK.

Whew.

Oh, and how is WP 3.0?

It’s OK. I don’t see much difference. They added some features that I don’t need, so its not much different besides the light blue color and the fact that my username doesn’t automatically save so I can log in (so I have to type it in each time)> What is up with that, anyway?

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WordPress 3.0 Coming Soon

Mar 24

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber in Wordpress, blogs | Comments off

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had WordPress-Update-Disease. I’m tired of updating WordPress all the time! :-p

Each new version is an improvement, so that’s a plus…. but I don’t want my WP to be a Swiss Army knife of blogging platforms. Unless there’s a necessary security update, I’m really happy with what I have and don’t want any new, complicated features.

In case you haven’t heard, WordPress 3.0 is slated for an April release.

Highlights

* The merge with MU (but not the extra domain stuff, which will remain plugin territory for this version)
* Better support for custom post types
* Better support for hierarchical (category-style) taxonomies
* New default theme “Twenty Ten”
* Better menu management

New Features

* Multisite capabilities (#11644)

User Features

* Custom Navigation (#11817)
* Custom Backgrounds (#12186)
* Upgrade plugins in bulk from the plugins page (#11542)
* Active plugins can no longer be edited; you must first deactivate
* Choose username for the first account, rather than using ‘admin’

Development, Themes, Plugins

* Admin support for custom post types (#9674)
* New template files for custom post types (#12105)
* Admin support for hierarchical taxonomies (#10122)
* Author specific templates (#12064)
* get_generic_template function to include generic files (other than header, sidebar, footer) (#13146)
* Standardized comment form with comment_form() (#10910)
* jQuery updated to 1.4.2 (#12305)
* get_taxonomies() function to get a list of all registered taxonomies (#12516)
* Settings API now supports automatic error display for validation problems with add_settings_error() (#11474)
* the_shortlink() template tag (#10640)

Advanced Features

* Customizable death (wp_die is now pluggable) (#11892)

“Customizable death,” LOL?! Now I KNOW that WordPress is getting too big for its britches.

It’s unfortunate that WordPress couples security updates with software updates. They should be separate. I would like to update ONLY security releases. Why must we be forced to clutter our databases with more and more updates, throw our themes and plugins out of whack, and more, for a fancy new machine? I dislike it.

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Good News For Scheduled Post WordPress Users

Jan 7

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber in Wordpress | Comments off

There was some problem with the new WordPress 2.9 release that occurred a few weeks ago: complaints were rolling in that scheduled posts were not publishing. I didn’t experience the problem (I hadn’t any scheduled posts), so I don’t know if the issue affected any of my blogs. But the WordPress dudes have solved the problem with the release of 2.9.1.

After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress 2.9.1. This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. If any of these issues affect you, give 2.9.1 a try. Download 2.9.1 or upgrade automatically from the Tools->Upgrade menu in your blog’s admin area.

I know quite a handful of WordPress users who will be happy to see this! Since it’s not a security release, I don’t thunk it’s a critical update. However, I usually update when I can. just so I don’t have a huge update to do the next time another major release is issued.

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