TechieDan

Looks like the guys at wordpress.org, after giving us the all new improved interface of Wordpress 2.5 is now in the process of getting the Wordpress 2.6 up.

Well, not yet though, but surely, well, heck there’s even a download for the Wordpress 2.6 Beta 2 up already. Now of course if you would like to know what are the recent changes, here are some brief description of it. A lot of fixes and new enhancements with an integration with Tumblr. The admin interface would also be a lot faster.

Though, one thing I need some fixing is the widget interface, when sometimes moving the widget around, it goes haywire. Now for those plugin writers and programmers, looks like it’s time for you people to update your plugins to support 2.6 on the day it’s released.

Kudos to the Guys in Wordpress.Org

Previously I wrote about how to write a simple javascript button for normal webpages. But it looks like it’s utterly different for creating a button in Wordpress. Well, basically there’s a way to write it. With that too, you can actually have a lot of other things like a statistics counter to count how many times a user has clicked. Well, depends on how well you know though.

CLICK ME

How did I create this button on Wordpress? SIMPLE!!

<button onclick="javascript:alert('Hello!\nWelcome to TechieDan.com')">
CLICK ME</button>

Straightforward, so have some fun with Javascript Buttons on Wordpress.

Looks like Wordpress has done it again. Another 70 other new enhancements or rather the negative term, bug fixings and stuffs for the current 2.5 but we all know in the software world, there is definitely bound to be bugs and errors. So don’t we all just love our programmers to the max.

Well, after being away for almost a week, it’s time for me to rekindle this blog back to it’s feet. One most important feature that I will think will help is the new Media Uploader. Previously I have to alter my .htaccess file manually or rather overwrite the current one with the corrected .htaccess file.

I heard that Wordpress 2.5.1 has already fixed that bug. Well if you’re a Wordpress user, you will truly understand what I meant by that. So let’s all keep our fingers crossed and hope for more improvements from the guys at Wordpress.

Update April 16 2008 : I find that people are saying what is happening to their plugin even after they did what I did. Well, if you’re a first time setting up this plugin. Please do what was mentioned in Ken’s web. Anyway, for easier access, you can download the patched version of the plugin it directlyfrom Ken. Note you’ll still need to make the database changes if you don’t have the tables already in place.

Alex King’s wordpress plugin which goes by the name of Popularity Contest has the best popular post plugin. It gives a lot of information thus helping bloggers to judge what readers usually read. Well, sad to say, I did face an error when I converted my Wordpress from 2.3 to 2.5. No error whatsoever at first, that was until I went and deactivate the popularity contest plugin.

The outcome?? After I tried to reactivate the plugin, it went bonkers and kept giving Fatal Error message. So off I go to search and found a help in Ken’s web. In his site, you can either download his latest patched file or rather you can just modify the popularity-contest.php and changed the following.

Open popularity-contest.php and scroll down to line 59.
Replace require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’); with require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);

This somehow solves my problem perfectly. So it tells me to be prepared for Wordpress 2.5 compatibality issues.

It’s now the second day of April. Yes, and it’s belated April Fool’s day. Wonder why they call it April Fool’s Day. Sometimes prank played on this day was like horrible for me.

Anyway, for those that didn’t get the news especially those embarking or going to get their own domain and going to host their blog on a wordpress platform, you guys are lucky. The new Wordpress 2.5 is now officially out. Well, haven’t really tested it out on localhost yet, but from other reviews I see that it really is good in terms of statistics findings.

I really must thank the wordpress team for coming up with such a great blog platform software.