Wordpress 2.6 a href=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/was released/a a few weeks ago.  Better late than never, but I finally got around to upgrading this site with this latest version of Wordpress.

During the time I have covered Wordpress a href=http://likethatidea.com/tag/wordpress/here/a and at a href=http://cmsreport.com/wordpressCMS Report/a, I have always considered Wordpress more as blogging application and not really a full featured content management system.  However, ever since I installed a href=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/Wordpress 2.5/a on one of my sites, I can’t help but think that Wordpress now rocks as a content management system.

If you haven’t looked at Wordpress in the past year or so, I recommend that you do yourself a favor and a href=http://wordpress.org/download/take a look/anoscripta href=http://www.sibresource.ru/#1083;#1072;#1085;#1076;#1096;#1072;#1092;#1090;/a/noscript at what you may be missing out.

Below is a brief video tour of 2.6 prepared by Matt and company.
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We finally got around to upgrading the site to Wordpress 2.5. We’ve been very bad this time around this time by waiting almost three weeks before upgrading our Wordpress 2.3 site to newer and more secure versions. Luckily, we’re in a “holding pattern” for adding a whole lot of content to this blog, because Technorati (a blog indexing service) decided to remove insecure Wordpress sitesкомпютри втора употреба from their index. If you’re a Wordpress user, you really should check and make sure your blog is updated with the latest stable release of Wordpress.

Wordpress 2.5 contains a lot of new features…and mostly on the publisher/author/administrative side of the blog. So far, my most favorite new feature is the almost automatic plug-in upgrades.

Few-click plugin upgrades — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory since 2.3 we’ve told you when they have an update available. Now we take that to the next logical step — downloading and installing the upgrade for you. This is dependent a little bit on your host setup, and it may ask you for your FTP password much like OS X or Windows will ask you for a password, but it works well on majority of hosts we were able to test, your mileage may very, plugins in mirror may be larger than they appear.

We’ll talk more about Wordpress 2.5 once I get to know about it more. Expect an article on Wordpress to be posted either here or at CMSReport.com.

We sort of went the wrong direction in our previous upgrade last Fall to Wordpress 2.3. So we’ve brought a previous version of Wordpress back online as well as the previous database. We’re missing our posts since Summer 2007…but we think it’s worth it.

Until we start getting some content online…feel free to take a look at one of Bryan’s endeavors…CMS Report.

I found a neat page that compares the Windows, Mac, and Linux computer desktops over the years. Pretty cool, but they’re missing a few other systems including IBM’s OS/1, BEOS, and the Amiga desktop. Click here for the link.

By the way, be sure to compare the Mac screenshots with those of KDE (Linux). I think some diehard Mac lovers will be surprised that the KDE desktop matches pretty closely with the Mac. For the final year listed, it’s hard to see that many differences between Windows Vista, Mac, and KDE. IMHO.

Matthew Mullenweg announced at Wordpress.org that Wordpress 2.1 “Ella” is available for download. Here at Like that Idea we found the upgrade to be no more or no less difficult than past Wordpress upgrades. It’s too early to tell, but there does appear to be a performance improvement attibuted to one of the changes in Wordpress 2.1.

Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.

I wish more coders of content management systems would get the “database experts” involved in reviewing how well or not so well their project is utilizing the database. We did however run into a problem with one of the new features included in Wordpress 2.1.

A tabbed editor that allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.

The problem? After the upgrade, the editor contained neither the tabs nor the WYSIWYG editor. I figure there must be a way to toggle on the editor but found there is no option if you go through the administrative “Users > Authors & Users” to edit the name. What’s going on? Well it looks as if you can only toggle on this feature by editing your own profile thorugh your own profile by either going to “My Profile” or “Users > Your Profile”. No big deal, but it just wasn’t intuititve enough for me.

Additional new features and changes listed in this version of Wordpress that I think I will like include:

• Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. I’m a habitual browser closer before saving my work…so this will be a big one for for me! So far I’ve found this works very well.
• The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
• You can set any ?page? to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
• Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
• Pages can now be drafts, or private.
• Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
• A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.

Developers are also expected to like the cleaner code, API improvements, and a number of other improvements since Wordpress 2.0 was released. Most of these improvements should especially help in Wordpress plugin development.

References:

1. Original Announcement
2. Download Page for Wordpress 2.1 at Wordpress.org

As you know, we are big fans of the blogging application, Wordpress. Like that Idea is now running on Wordpress 2.0.6. Not only some security and bug fixes are included in this release but also some minor new features.New to this version of Wordpress:

• Security fixes.
• HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
• Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
• Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

You can find more information about Wordpress at Wordpress.org, of course! Also, you can check out Bryan’s own CMS Report for more content and links to articles on Wordpress.

Sad to say, I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.5…almost two weeks after it was released. I usually like to stay on top of any upgrades due to fixes for any security exploits. This new version of Wordpress mainly contains bugfixes, security fixes, and some very minor enhancements. According to the original announcement at Wordpress.org, the fixes center around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization. Links to download Wordpress 2.0.5 are available at the “official” Wordpress 2 download page.

Also, some Wordpress users after upgrading to version 2.0.5 have experienced Server 500 errors. If you are one of these unfortunate users, check out Mark Jaquith’s blog for a plug-in that should fix this known problem.