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First look at WordPress 2.7 beta 2
Some of the most visible changes for your readers will be support for threaded comments and sticky posts. In other words, they'll be able to reply to individual comments without resorting to a silly @ symbol, and you'll be able to make an important post hang out at the top of your page even after you've written more recent articles.
But the really big changes are all in the administration area. WordPress 2.7 has a completely new interface that both saves space (by grouping a number of items together in a collapsable sidebar), and allowing you to customize the interface by dragging and dropping widgets.
But the new interface is just the tip of the iceberg. Here are a few of my favorite new features in WordPress 2.7:
- You can search for and install plugins directly from your blog's administration page. No need to find and download a plugin, upload it to your FTP server and then enable it. You can take care of the whole thing in just a few clicks.
- WordPress 2.7 includes an automatic upgrade script that will download the latest version of WordPress and install it for you.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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whatever said 10:08PM on 11-06-2008
I still won't use their app until they allow me to password protect the entire site ... without having to deal with a third party plugin.
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Mike said 8:15AM on 11-07-2008
Maybe .htaccess is a solution for you
whatever said 11:24AM on 11-07-2008
@mike ... sure, every time I want to add a user or someone wants to look at my site, I'll go sit down, generate a username and password for them, manually edit the file, email it out to them in "plain text", blah blah blah ...
no thanks. I'll stick with my current software that allows users to sign up at their own free will, sends me an email alerting me to a new sign-up, and allows me to approve/deny.
Andrew said 10:59AM on 11-07-2008
This should necessarily get to the front page of digg. Currently it has 8 diggs. Help!
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Pete said 8:14AM on 11-07-2008
Wow I must say, this looks awesome! Cant wait to try it.
Greetz Pete - http://www.torrentin.com
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Jash Sayani said 11:56AM on 11-07-2008
Wow!!! Just the news I had been waiting for....
BTW, do all plug-ins work ??
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Brad Linder said 12:01PM on 11-07-2008
I had a problem getting the WordPress Stats plugin to work. But that mightjust be me. The other 9 or 10 plugins I use all seem to work just fine.
Nina said 3:47PM on 11-08-2008
The new interface is really slick-looking. The new method of adding plugins without downloading is handy, too. That replaces the One-Click Plugin Updater plugin that I use.
I wish that sidebar widgets were a bit more dynamic. For instance, I'd like to customize what widgets appear on the home page, which ones appear on a single entry, and et cetera.
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iXpress.me said 6:46PM on 11-17-2008
I am just wondering when they will integrate it into the multi-user version?
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