WordPress 2.6.1
August 14th, 2008 at 9:10 PM by Matt Freedman
WordPress 2.6.1 was released today and contains various bug fixes. Although it isn’t necessarly required, I would recommend updating, especially since it fixes a bug that could cause the Admin pages to slow down quite a bit.
I run the latest bleeding edge version of WordPress (which is currently the development of WordPress 2.7, slated for a November release) on the blog, so I have no need to upgrade. However, if you’re experiencing any quirks with 2.6, you should upgrade to 2.6.1
WordPress for iPhone
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 PM by Matt Freedman
Today, the WordPress app for the iPhone was released. I just installed this App, and it appears to work well. It’s defiantly useful if you’re away from your computer a lot, but still want to blog regularly (however, typing a long blog post on an iPhone might be a little tiresome). If you’re going to use the App, make sure that XML-RPC Publishing is enabled in your blog under Settings > Writing (the App will tell you if it isn’t). WordPress for iPhone is free from the iTunes App Store and requires iPhone firmware version 2.0 and works on the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. You need WordPress 2.5.1 or higher or a WordPress.com account. Here’s some screenshots of the WordPress iPhone App (click for larger view):
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- About WordPress for iPhone
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- Add Blog
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- Edit Blog
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- List of Blogs
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- List of Posts
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- Write Screen
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- Write > Photos
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- Add Photo
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- Take Photo
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- Preview Photo
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- Write > Photos
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- Write > Preview
WordPress for iPhone | Download Now (opens in iTunes)
My Birthday
July 18th, 2008 at 4:49 PM by Matt FreedmanIt’s my Birthday today, and I’m 16 now!
WordPress 2.6 Released
July 14th, 2008 at 9:03 PM by Matt FreedmanWordPress 2.6 has been released! Some of the new features include:
- Post Revisions – Think WikiPedia’s History tab, they’re located at the bottom of the Write screen (try comparing a revision to itself, it’s fun 😉 )
- Press This! – Drag this link (located on the right side of the Write screen) to your bookmarks bar and use it to quickly post something
- Image Captions
- Themes Previews
- Google Gears Support – Allows you to store images and CSS/JavaScript files from the Admin panel locally to speed things up a bit
- Reorganized Plugin Page – Arranges plugins into the categories of Active, Recently Active or Unactive
It is recommended that everybody using an older version of WordPress to upgrade as soon as possible.
I’m Plurking – mattfreedman now on Plurk
July 7th, 2008 at 11:11 PM by Matt Freedman
If you’re a user of Twitter you know that uptime isn’t one of it’s features. Recently, I’ve become frustrated with this fact. Last month, I signed up for Twitter-competitor Plurk. Today, I started to actually use it, and I’ve grown to like it.
Plurk has quite a few advantages over Twitter. Such as almost always being up, a nicer timeline presentation and more features. Not to mention new features being added constantly, unlike the seemly stagnant Twitter feature-base. However, one thing Plurk currently lacks is a documented API, but I’m sure that’s in the works.
With more and more Twitter users starting to use Plurk, I think that Twitter should watch it’s back because Plurk’s going to be hot on it’s heels.
