Just Another Wordpress Noob
Archive for November, 2008
Want To Know How To Build A WordPress Theme?
Nov 11th
I was digging through digg.com this morning and found an excellent article from designreviver.com titled “How I Learned To Build WordPress Themes“. It provides many sources of information including programs, tutorials, color swatches and more. Definitely a great source of information whether you want to build your own theme or start building themes for other people.
WordPress 2.7 beta 2
Nov 7th
OK people we are getting really close to a final release of WordPress 2.7. WordPress 2.7 beta 2 is now available for download. Here’s a list of changes since 2.7 beta 1:
- The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.
- JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.
- Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.
- Various Autosave fixes.
- Redirect after deleting a page from the editor went back to the deleted page. Fixed.
- Fixed loading of translations for default TinyMCE plugins.
- Added avatars to the edit users list.
- Added some missing translations.
- Fixed some validation errors.
- Fixed some PHP warnings and notices.
- Handle inconsistent file permissions during auto upgrade
- Change Publish box layout to better accommodate internationalized text
- Fix quick editing of the last page in the Edit Pages list
- Fix Screen Options for IE
- Fixes for choose tag from tag cloud
- Rewrite rules fixes for certain hosts
- Don’t check for updates on every page load
- Easier post box dropping
- Preview fixes
- RTL fixes
- Fixed broken wp-mail
- Plugin update and install fixes
- First draft of contextual help tab
WordPress 2.7 Beta 1
Nov 1st
WordPress 2.7 beta 1 is now available for download. This site has been using the nightly builds of WordPress and I can tell you there are some major changes.
