Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. For those who are still looking forward to upgrading to WordPress 2.5 I like to share my experience upgrading from WordPress 2.3.3 to 2.5 on two blogs. I decided to Continue Reading
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How To Run WordPress 2.5 On Your PC
It's here - WordPress 2.5 has been released. A different look and feel, and for those of us using self-hosted WordPress, some huntin' and peckin'. I wrote about running and reviewing WordPress 2.-beta1 and how you can set it up on your PC to start playing around with it. You can do the same with the final release as well. Some folks are going to wait to upgrade because of Continue Reading
My First WordPress Theme – Part 5
Just a quick update on this WordPress theme I've been developing. I've added the right sidebar, the post navigation and the footer. Next up is the layouts for single post, page, search results, and the art gallery, and this thing should be close to being ready to release for the artist who wants it. So here's the screen shot of the blog portion of the theme. I ran into Continue Reading
My First WordPress Theme – Part 4
Here is the post and postmetadata section of my first WordPress theme. The post section is where all the blog posts appear and the postmetadata is where the "Filed under..." information appears. I've made the title of each post stand out by making it white. This should make it easy to scan the titles quickly - hopefully. :) There's quite a bit left to do and this Continue Reading
Running and Reviewing WordPress 2.5-beta1
WordPress 2.5 is set to release this month, March 2008, so I decided to jump in a bit early by installing and running it on my PC to see what's new and exciting. I know it's been reviewed here and there, and some sites are setup so you can go try it out yourself, but there's nothing like being able to set it up on your own machine and "kick the tires."Here's what we need to Continue Reading