Tag Archive for 'WordPress'

WordPress 2.7

Published
by
Chris
on December 11, 2008
in Site Related
. 2 Comments

I have just updated this site to WordPress 2.7. So far it seems to be pretty good. The new dashboard is really growing on me, and I love how it has the “Right Now” section showing some stats like how many posts, pages, comments, and spam.

There is also this new thing called QuickPress which allows you to quickly add a new post without having to go to the full new post page. It’s pretty handy.

Now, I just hope that the team over at Automattic release an update to their WordPress app for the iPhone that interacts with WordPress alot more rather then allowing you to make a post. It would be good to be able to moderate comments and spam, upload photos to your blog, etc.

If you are yet to update to 2.7, then go and do it. It’s worth it. If you have already updated, what do you think of it?

Back to 2 colums

Published
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Chris
on January 9, 2008
in Asides and Site Related
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As much as I have loved the single column layout provided by K2, I have found it to be rather annoying having to scroll to the bottom all the time, and I have grown to love my sidebar, so I have gone back to the default 2 columns. This also allows me to show a few things on my sidebar when someone visits this blog like my Facebook status and my Xbox Live gamercard.

I ♥ K2

Published
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Chris
on January 4, 2008
in Site Related
. 3 Comments

Since I came across the K2 theme for WordPress back in the day when it was still in Beta 1, I haven’t used any other theme. Since then, I’ve learnt a heap about CSS and PHP, though I still have a long way to go, but I have managed to do a few mods and hacks to my blog over the years. One mod that I’ve been wanting to do is a single column layout with possible some content on the bottom. I’ve tried over the years to do this, but I always seem to loose interest and don’t end up doing anything.

Today I installed the latest release of K2, Release Candidate 3, and to my surprise in the settings there was an option for 1 column. I tried this out and instantly thought, that’s what I’ve been wanting!! The other good thing is that having this built into K2 is that I can now use the K2 module system for the sidebars.

I don’t know how long this single column feature has been implemented into K, but it was a nice surprise.

Restarting… New blog in 3… 2… 1…

Published
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Chris
on January 2, 2008
in Site Related
. 3 Comments

Ah, here we go.

First of all, I’d like to apologise for anyone that has come here looking for something specific. The old database for my blog has started to get a tonne of errors, so I decided it was time to start fresh. The old database has lasted since day one when I started this site, and has seen 3 different servers in it’s time.

I’m planning on going through a backup of my database and collecting some of my more usefull posts and adding them back into this blog, as well, as a few visual changes, but for now we will have to live with what’s here for now.