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I’ve just upgraded the blog to WordPress 3.0. I will now have to have a shot at customizing the menus etc.
Check back for more later.

For more details on whats new in 3.0 go to wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/ and/or have a look at this video below:

I have started adding the new Facebook Like button around the blog, experimenting about where best to put it. I have inserted a Like button into the wordpress post loop, so you can see it in every individual post. However this only displays it in the post if you click to view the whole post, it isnt displayed on the main page.

So I’ll add one here, for the craic:

There are a couple of options to play around with too. Well 4 to be honest, and I haven’t gotten to grips with them fully yet. One of them shows the faces of people who have “liked” the post/page/link etc already and here are those parameters:

• layout=standard
• show_faces=false
• action=like
• colorscheme=light

The layout option above is set to standard. I will have to RTFM to find out what non-standard options exist and what they do. show_faces is either True or False. IF its set to True, the faces of people who have liked it will be displayed, if its not then just a line of text is displayed. Again for the action parameter I will have to RTFM. I doubt there is a dislike option. I mean who would put that option on their site, its askin’ for trouble. Finally colorscheme (note the American spelling for colour) is either light or dark. I think. Maybe another blast of RTFM for this too.

Finally, here is the code to add to display the Facebook Like button:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID)); ?>&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:60px;"></iframe>

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has landed. Have a look here to get the latest and to download and test the latest version of WordPress. Also you can review the extensive list of changes here

I have already been using the release candidate 1 version of WordPress 2.7. So far I think its good, I just need to remember where everything is now

WordPress 2.7 is coming to WordPress.com, and will go live on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time. That’s 5pm Thursday in California, 1am Friday in London (UTC), 8am Friday in Jakarta, noon on Friday in Sydney.

For a full run-down on whats in 2.7, go here

After what seemed like weeks of searching, I have finally found a new theme for the blog, and so far it looks like it loads a lot quicker too. That was the main reason for changing, the old one seemed to take ages to load on certain pages. so here it is, the new look.

I shall also be switching to the new WordPress 2.7 soon enough. I have already loaded it on the testblog and while it does take a bit of getting used to, it is a grower. Its just a matter of finding out where everything is in the new vertical admin section, and then remembering where you put it next time you need it.

The latest version for Wordpres, version 2.6.1 is now available to download from here. Also the full list of changes can be gotten from here. The main benefits will be for admin users in Hebrew or Farsi as 2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for right-to-left languages is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious gettext bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed. For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.

This was sent from my iTouch, using the new WordPress App

I have a question for all you WordPress Gurus out there:

When you add a page to your blog, a link is placed up top in the header. I want to add links there to pages that were not added by the wordpress blog.

For example I want to place a link in the header to point to the Write Post page. I also want to add a link to pages I create myself, for example testpage.php etc.

How do I do this? Can I do this?

I have a plugin I use for the Submit link at present, but I would prefer to link to the actual write post page, so that authors must login/be registered

bloggarriv has upgraded to 2.5

i’ll keep you posted any any findings/improvements etc

What I want to know is what happened to 2.4?