If you haven’t found out by now, WordPress 2.5 has been released. It includes a bunch of new stuff in the admin area including, automatic upgrades for plugins, media gallery, upload music, pics, and video, and tons of other changes. You can read more about the features in WordPress 2.5 here.
I’ve been testing the plugin upgrade functionality, and I have to say that it works just fine. I’ve upgraded 5 sites to WordPress 2.5 in the last hour and upgraded every plugin that needed it. No problems here.
I’ll be going through my themes to make sure that all everything works ok, but so far on my test server, there doesn’t seem to be any issues.
If you haven’t upgraded yet, then head on over to WordPress.org and do so. You won’t regret it.
Tags: upgrade, WordPress 2.5
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March 29th, 2008
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I’ve updated both of these themes due to an issue where WordPress doesn’t like the & sign in the name. Thanks goes to mgn of Techwizards for pointing this out. You can download the latest versions from the Free WordPress Themes page.
Tags: black and blue theme, black and red theme, themes, WordPress Themes
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March 28th, 2008
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I’m currently testing another new theme on this site that I made for another site that I run. Well, actually there are some differences…
The theme for the other site is actually wider than this one and has one more sidebar. I just thought that I would make a version that would fit on a 800×600 screen for kicks.
I don’t have a name for this one since I haven’t decided on whether or not I’m going to release it. Does anyone want to suggest one?
Tags: theme testing, wordpress theme
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March 28th, 2008
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Here are a couple of blog posts that give some great information regarding making your WordPress blog theme more SEO friendly. There are a bunch of good tips and I recommend that you take advantage of them.
The first, How To SEO Your WordPress Theme, was written by Courtney Tuttle, of Court’s Internet Marketing School, as a guest post on John Chow’s blog.
The second, 5 Ways To SEO Your WordPress Blog, was written by Honest Ed.
Both have good information, though some of it is repeated.
And if you’re interested in looking at another way to remove duplicate content from your WordPress site, then take a look at How To Eliminate Duplicate Content in WordPress Up To 99% for a detailed tutorial.
Tags: duplicate content, SEO, WordPress SEO
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March 27th, 2008
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I’ve just finished working on this theme, “Dark Matter”, for my wife’s blog, and so I’m testing it here prior to uploading it to her site. If someone who owns a Mac and/or uses a browser other than Firefox and IE7 could tell me how it looks, I’d appreciate it.
I’m not a fan of dark themes (my wife is), but I think it looks ok. What do you think?
*UPDATE*
Forgot to mention, for her site, the link color is actually white instead of the dark orange, since she hated the orange. 
Tags: dark matter testing, themes, WordPress Themes
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March 21st, 2008
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<begin rant>
There are times when I’m designing a theme that I just want to beat Internet Explorer to death with a sledge hammer.
For those of you who are still using Internet Explorer, download Firefox and see what the web is really supposed to look like.
</end rant>
Tags: get firefox, ie sucks
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March 21st, 2008
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Roy Tanck has created one of the coolest plugins for WordPress 2.3+ that I’ve seen. WP Cumulus creates a flash based revolving tag cloud that has to be seen to be appreciated. The plugin also gives you the option to change color, background, width, and height to fit your blog.
Besides, it’s just plain cool to have a moving tag cloud.
You can see it here or on his blog.
Tags: plugins, WordPress Plugins
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March 20th, 2008
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