26.03.2008
Here’s the announcement. What makes me glad the most from this post is this:
Finally with regards to theme and plugin compatibility, we’ve had no reports of any broken themes in this upgrade, which makes sense because we didn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars.
So, it’s safe to say that we can just use this release for local development of future themes. Yay!
18.03.2008
Delayed one week from the initial release date of March 10, 2008, WordPress 2.5 RC1 is finally out. Here are a few points worth mentioning from the announcement post:
For the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog — Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — to redesign WordPress from the ground-up.
Yes, yes, yes. Music to my ears. Here’s my old post regarding Happy Cog’s involvement in redesigning WordPress’ backend.
You might also notice there are some new colors, the dashboard feels much fresher and lighter. If you’re jonesing for the old look under your user options you can now select the “classic” colors and get those old blues back. (It’s also pluggable so people can easily add or share their own color schemes.)
So, you can change the admin’s color schemes by creating plugins. Interesting. Here’s Ozh explaining how to do that in details. Now, I’m just itching to go to Colour Lovers and grab a few lovely schemes for this.
The software is basically done and stable, and could be released today
So, this is it. What I’m waiting the most from 2.5 is the redesigned admin, and if you’re like me, it’s probably quite safe to believe that the new design is there and ready to test. Now, let’s play!
17.03.2008
I use the utterly useful XAMPP from Apache Friends for local development environment. Recently, however, I came across the strange behavior in which everytime I try to open a certain (not all) php page via the Firefox, it will try to download the file (the “Open With/Save As” popup window opens) instead of executing it. This is despite the fact that I’m opening it correctly (apache running fine, no error logs, accessing with “http://localhost/” instead of “c:/xampp/”). An it gets even weirder because I am dead sure the same page opens flawlessly just a few days before.
After two days of looking around, I finally found the cure: clean the browser cache!
Now, I don’t have any idea why this works, but it does. I’m happy, and I hope if you came across the same problem, this might help you as well.
14.03.2008
Public criticism from your competitors is the best publicity you can get. When they point out their competitors’ weaknesses it ALWAYS causes people to find the weaknesses in their own products and services and investigate the competitors’ product. Many switch to the competitor.
The moral of the story is: Keep your mouth(and keyboard) shut, and make sure your product is better than theirs by a long shot. The market will decide who is best and score is kept by sales…or users in the case of OS software.
08.03.2008
This is the Indonesian language translation for A List Apart’s article Design is in the Details by Naz Hamid. Translated with the permission of A List Apart Magazine and the author[s].
06.03.2008
You can read the announcement here, or go straight to the download page this way.
Please note that installing the beta will overwrite your already installed IE (7, most likely), so you might want to think twice before doing it. There’s no standalone version / installation method available yet, but give it time. In the meanwhile, there are Virtual PC images with different version if IE available for free, so there’s an alternative.
04.03.2008
I was about to make a blog post about this, but I’m really, really glad that Performancing did it first. It’s way more detailed than I could ever hope to make. Read 48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress at Performancing.com.
My name is Hafiz Rahman. I do standards-based web design and WordPress works. I'm open for new projects, and here's where you can contact me.
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