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WordPress 2.3 is falling to bits

By AndrewBoyd • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

I’ve written a fair bit lately about WordPress 2.5. Whatever the issues are, I think it is fair to say that some people just don’t like it.
A lot of these same people are staying with WordPress 2.3.3 while they wait for version 2.6 to come out.
There is a cost to staying with WordPress 2.3.3 or […]



B is for Blogging Platform

By AndrewBoyd • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

Following on from A is for Akismet, I thought I would look at blogging platforms.
I wrote a rough guide to different blogging platforms in Get a real blog: Finding the right blogging platform - things have changed a little since November 2007.
This article contains some of the changes to existing platforms and also covers some […]



WordPress 2.5: Perhaps I was wrong

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

…and it does totally suck.
The WordPress blog has announced that the “Lite” version that I spoke about in WordPress 2.5 Alpha: It doesn’t totally suck is going to be adopted. Sadly, they seem proud of it.
Here’s what I had to say about it on the Aussie Bloggers Forum:
“We’ve cut the number of navigation options by […]



WordPress 2.5 Alpha: It doesn’t totally suck

By AndrewBoyd • Feb 19th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

….but parts of it are weird and unexpected. There is a demo site at http://wp.chrisjohnston.org
The front end
The front end hasn’t changed much. The default theme is prettier, and this is not a bad thing.

But in the Dashboard
Please see the demo/beta at http://wp.chrisjohnston.org/wp-admin/ - username is admin, password demo.

There are some new features, sure. […]



WordPress Theme Editing Part 1: Surviving The Process

By AndrewBoyd • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips

This is part 1 of a guide to editing/customising themes on self-hosted WordPress blogs. When I changed On Blogging Australia over to the new theme I promised to talk about how I did it - and quickly found that there were a few things that I knew that would be useful to other people. So […]