WordPress

WordPress has many features that make it ideal for building traffic and your business.

WordPress 2.0.7- that was fast (and what’s coming in 2.1)

Just after we updated many sites to 2.0.6, the development team at automattic brings out 2.0.7 to fix some issues. If you did upgrade to 2.0.6, you don’t have to do all the files:

Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.7
Because this is a much smaller update than previous versions, you do not have to update all of WordPress’ files if you’re upgrading from version 2.0.6. Here is the list of files that have changed since 2.0.6:

* wp-admin/inline-uploading.php
* wp-admin/post.php
* wp-includes/classes.php
* wp-includes/functions.php
* wp-settings.php
* wp-includes/version.php

With 2.1 around the corner- if you are still at 2.0.5 or below- you think, ah, I’ll just go for 2.1- well, guess what: 2.1 changes some basic calls in a big way, so it might not work for everyone. We’ve had it break a large site under development. But, here’s the big news from further in the Dev blog post above:

And just as a reminder, the next major version of WordPress (2.1) is due out by the end of the month, but the 2.0 branch of WordPress will continue to be maintained for several years.

So- if you aren’t able to reconfigure your site to work with 2.1, 2.0 will live on.

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Ford Motor Company launches WordPress driven site

Screenshot of the Ford Autoshow site built in WordPressWe’ve been saying it all along- WordPress is a great Content Management System (CMS)- now mega-companies are starting to figure out that Googlelove is more important than Flash driven sites.

With a lot of CSS wizardry, you can make your WordPress site look like anything you want- Take a look at Ford’s site:

Ford Motor Company – NAIAS Detroit 2007 » At The Show

Apparently, Ford doesn’t quite get it- the site is down as of Monday 15 Jan 2007

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WordPress 2.0.6- Update with security fix

WordPress released 2.0.6 yesterday- and it’s supposedly the last release before the much awaited 2.1

Apple users should be happy that Safari will now display quicktags- but, as always, Firefox is the browser of choice for WordPress users (and with Firefox 2.0 you get spell check!).

Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.6

Here’s what’s new:* The aforementioned 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.

If you’d like Websitetology to upgrade your WordPress installation to 2.0.6. complete with back-up, and a review of your active plug-ins for latest versions, jump over to this link: http://blogosopher.com/?page_id=7

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