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WordPress 2.7 Released

WordPress 2.7 Released

It’s out and you can get it here. Words to the wise: There are some issues with Image Handling which have not been resolved.  These issues appear to be related to server setup, and not the actual code, but sites where images handling worked on 2.6.5 may find that it is broken in 2.7 – like this site. (Update:  yes, image thumbnailing is working for me now – it appears it’s finicky on large size images and doens’t like some…

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WordPress 2.7 Coming Soon

WordPress 2.7 Coming Soon

I’ve been doing some testing with beta versions of the new WordPress 2.7, which has a very extensive redesign of the Admin console. Yeah, you read that right, the admin console is being redesigned again, even though it was just redone in 2.5 which came out very recently. The good news is that they’ve really done a wonderful job on the admin console.  As much as I have been saying that WordPress is trully a content management system, they are…

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WordPress 2.6.3 Released, and Issues with Auto Upgrade

WordPress 2.6.3 Released, and Issues with Auto Upgrade

The folks at Automattic today released WordPress 2.6.3 which is a minor security patch to the Snoopy script they use for displaying rss feeds in the admin area.  Not an utterly crucial upgrade, but one you might want to take just to be sure your secure.  The upgrade took me 5 minutes using the auto upgrade plugin. One issue that I noticed while using the auto upgrade plugin, which was also upgraded, was that the script failed repeatedly on the…

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David Churbuck on WordPress Auto Update – the Killer Feature

David Churbuck on WordPress Auto Update – the Killer Feature

I installed the autoupdate plugin on David Churbuck’s blog yesterday and this morning he used it to update the software in a couple minutes.  This is truly delivering on the promise of the blog, a simple content management system which non-technical users can manage themselves. From his post: About one minute, a simple, straightforward set of questions, and ta-da, I am up to date with the latest verison. Gratitude aside, this auto update is a big step towards making WordPress…

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