Category Archives: WordPress
Oct 24, 2008 by Matt | Posted in WordPress
WordPress 2.7 will be here soon, the release only weeks away. In addition to long-awaited major features such as automatic core file updates, we’ll be seeing another major redesign on the Admin pages. The goal of the redesign is to improve usability, require less pageloads to get where you want to go, and to offer much more in the way of customization options.
We’ll finally be seeing the beginings of the customizable Dashboard that’s been in the works for some time. Modules will be reorderable by dragging and dropping, and collapsed/expanded at will.
The New 2.7 Dashboard
Screenshots of the new Admin.
It looks pretty good to me. Hopefully the new WordPress release won’t break too many plugins…especially WP125 and GoCodes. 
Oct 15
I’ve received a few emails now asking for ad rotation features in WP125. Now, that’s not something I want to build into the plugin’s core files. Only a few people want it, and I don’t want to make the code needlessly bloated over something…
Oct 7
Agregado is October 2008’s featured free WordPress theme.
Sep 23
The features coming in WordPress 2.7 have finally been set in stone. In addition to the UI changes, which have sparked much debate recently, there are a number of welcome additions to the feature set. The ones I’m most excited about are: Automatic upgrade…
Sep 18
The so-called blogging experts always tell you that you should fill your posts with relevant links to other posts of your blog. But the advice isn’t much help when you can’t remember any posts you wrote in the past that would be related to…
Sep 16
CMS Critic has interviewed WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg, asking him a few questions about Automattic and WordPress. CC: There have been numerous articles touting WordPress as the future of Content Management Systems. What is your view on this? How do you define content management…
Sep 12
The WordPress 125×125 ad management plugin has just got better. I’ve just released version 1.1.0, which improves performance, adds several customization options, as well as a few major features. New is version 1.1: Setting to change the widget title. Option to remove the default…
Sep 11
Every month I highlight a free WordPress theme that caught my eye. In addition to that (I posted this month’s WPTOTM yesterday), I would like to give a shout-out to a premium theme this month. Papercut is a premium theme by the new WooThemes…
Sep 10
This month’s featured WordPress theme is Notepad Chaos by Smashing Magazine.
Sep 7
The WordPress team is hard at work on the next major release of WordPress, 2.7, which Weblog Tools Collection says may be every bit as important of a release as 2.5 was. It will have another major interface overhaul, and it looks like it…
