It’s been a long time since I went behind the scenes of my server, so long in fact that I had to once again look up how to do simple tasks in linux. Today though, I decided to get my hands dirty again. I found out that WordPress 2.0 had been released and decided to see if there were any improvements. Despite several reported problems with the plugin I use to manage photos (wpg2), I downloaded the new version, crossed my fingers and ran the upgrade script.
Nothing much changes for the visitors, although the site does seem more responsive, as most of the changes in WordPress 2.0 went on under the hood. There is plenty of information on what has changed in the new version, so I won’t go into that. I will say though that the upgrade process has been flawless. It just workd (for me). All the plugins seem to be working as they should as well. Congratulations to the WordPress team. Thankyou.
Submitting a comment should be a lot smarter.
Bill this article inspired me to download wordpress (at last) and install it on my webserver. I must agree, its pretty good. However, do you find the post editor thing a bit quirky? Both articles I have written for my new blog (http://lawrence.rigbys.net – ahem shameless plug!) I’ve pretty much have to write the HTML myself because it doesn’t break lines properly. Have you installed a plugin?
Larry,
For posting I normally use an offline client such as (SharpMT or w.bloggar). I haven’t used the new editor much at all. I don’t end up writing much html at all. The occasional <span class=”leftimage”> or something to ensure the images appear on the left or right of the text is about as far as I have to go.
Can you be a bit more specific about what it doesn’t do right? I’m sure it is something that could be fixed with a plugin.
Anyway, nice blog. Will get right on to giving you a link.
Thanks for the link matey :0)
As for the editor, I’ve found that it inserts line breaks sometimes instead of , and also sometimes if you select some text and make it bold, then decide that you don’t want it to be bold at all, you end up with a <strong> tag that doesn’t get closed. This messes up all the code, and it is necessary to tidy it up manually. The paragraph line break annoyances might clear up when i get round to making my own page template. Is this easy? (I haven’t even looked at how to do it).
Sorry – didn’t realise it was possible to use tags in these comments, this makes my last comment a bit garbled… Will check out those offline composers – cheers.
Larry, have cleared up your previous comment, although to do this I had to turn the nice editor off. You can do this by going to “My Account” and turning off the wysiwg editor at the bottom of the page. Since you know what you are doing it is probably easier to work without it.
Templates are pretty easy to master. I would recomend having a look on google for wordpress templates and then hacking away at one you like untill it’s perfect. The default wordpress template is always a good starting point. A good source of documentation is the wiki at http://codex.wordpress.org/.
Good luck with it all. The hardest bit about it was making sure that the CSS worked as I wanted in the major browsers.