WordPress 2.7 Release Postponed? WordPress 2.7 Still in Beta Form

November 11th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Tech/Web | Wordpress - (2 Comments)


A couple weeks ago, it was announced that the WordPress developers were looking for icon designers who’d be able to help create icons for the November 10th release date of WordPress 2.7. It’s now mid-day on November 11th, and WordPress 2.7 has yet to be released.

Any guesses as to the actual release date of WordPress 2.7? Will they let it out this week, or is it going to be postponed for another couple weeks to make it absolutely perfect? I say release it now… there’s always room for 2.7.1 and 2.7.2, right?

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WordPress 2.7 Release Date – WordPress 2.7 Is On Its Way!

October 26th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Tech/Web | Wordpress - (0 Comments)


Wordpress 2.7 Interface designDay by day, the wordpress engineers have been adding more features and functionality to WordPress 2.7, and as they do, their excitement shows as they have been slowly leaking previews and imagery of the new administrative interface. They have just released another post looking for icon designers to help out with icons for the newest release of the 2.7 interface.

With the release date for WordPress 2.7 set for November 10, they’re going to need to find someone who can crank out some icons very quickly.

The icons:
We’ll need icons for each of the main navigation sections, plus a matching pair of list/excerpt view icons for the table screens like Edit Posts. That’s a total of 13, and for the navigation icons we’ll also need a larger size for use in the screen headers. Some of the sections have natural iconography, while others may be more challenging. The sections are: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Appearance, Settings, Users, Plugins, Tools.

The style:
Icons should be subtle, with a classic/designed look, nothing cartoonish. Thin lines. Maybe a little old-fashioned looking. They’ll be grayscale by default, possibly with a color version for active menu items.

The timing:
Fast, fast, fast. 2.7 is due to release on November 10. That means icons need to be ready within two weeks, give or take.

Is there anything in particular that you’d like to see in the new 2.7 interface?

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iPhone WordPress App – Apps I’d Like to See in the Apple AppStore – WordPress Apps

July 10th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks | Wordpress - (0 Comments)


With the popularity of WordPress constantly growing, and the same holding true for the Apple iPhone, I’d love to see some WordPress developers and iPhone application developers put together a WordPress admin application for the iPhone that could be downloaded from the AppStore. Whether the application was free or paid, I think it’d get a great response from both the WordPress and iPhone community.

There are iPhone enabled admin themes for WordPress, but they just don’t offer the same usability that one might get from an actual iPhone application. Any takers? I might be willing to partially subsidize the development… very partially.

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WordPress 2.5.1 Just Released – Bug Fixes, Features and Updates

April 25th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Wordpress - (0 Comments)


Out of the 3 blogs that I manage, 1of the 3 showed a note atop the admin section that WordPress had an update available. The other 2 didn’t show anything, however, they did all have a note in the WordPress Development Blog section of the dashboard that the download was available but hadn’t been made public yet.

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly. In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes.

Get your copy now! Click here to download WordPress 2.5.1

Pinging Google Blog Search – Is Google the New Standard for Blog Search

April 18th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Random Stuff | Wordpress - (0 Comments)


With the release of WordPress 2.5, the new administration dashboard displays incoming blog links by querying Google Blog Search rather than Technorati as it had in the past. Does this mean that Google Blog Search will become the new standard for bloggers and networking blogs? Or is it simply because Google has the best search options on earth and the WordPress creators feel that Google will do a better job of displaying all links to a blog than Technorati ever could. Either way, I’m happy to see the new WordPress using Google Blog Search rather than Technorati. I have a Technorati account, but I never really spent the time to familiarize myself with it.

Any thoughts on Google Blog Search vs. Technorati in terms of incoming blog link listings?

PS – If you’d like to add Google Blog Search to your list of sites to ping in your WordPress system, simply:

  1. Log into your WordPress admin area
  2. Click on “Settings”
  3. Click on “Writing”
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to a new line
  5. Save changes and enjoy the extra traffic ;-)

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WordPress 2.5 Themes – Themes That Are Compatible With WordPress 2.5

March 31st, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Wordpress - (0 Comments)


With the release of WordPress 2.5 and the further integration of tags and tags support, as well as the great integration of media and the media gallery, I’m finding myself wanting to upgrade to a theme that supports all of the new features that are offered in the WordPress administration.

Has anyone found any themes that are designed and built specifically for WordPress 2.5? If you’ve found some themes, or if you make your own themes, send me a link and I’ll post them here.

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WordPress 2.5 Now Available – Testing the New WordPress 2.5 User Interface

March 29th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Wordpress - (0 Comments)


The new and heavily anticipated version of WordPress, WordPress 2.5, is now available for download and will start making users happy immediately. The new and improved WordPress 2.5 has shifted from a standard user interface to a new user interface that puts a heavier focus on writing. In addition to the better focus on writing (since WordPress is a blogging application) there have been improvements in the WYSIWIG editor as well as in the plugins manager, now allowing plugins to be updated automatically, which is a really nice feature.

Download the new WordPress 2.5 today and share your thoughts on the new features and improvements

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Fixing the array_key_exists WordPress Warning/Error – The first argument should be either a string or an integer in

February 7th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Tech/Web | Wordpress - (5 Comments)


Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The first argument should be either a string or an integer in /your-sitepath/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 176

This problems stems from line 176 as stated above – some people have said that updating their wordpress theme worked, however, a simple change to line 176 seems to work perfectly.

Change line 176 from:

if(array_key_exists($category, $categories))

To

if(array_key_exists('$category', $categories))

Don’t see the difference? Just add single quotes around the first $category variable. Make sure they are not the curly single quotes.

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iPhone Enabled Blogs – Listing of iPhone Optimized Blogs

November 13th, 2007 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks | Reviews | Tech/Web | Wordpress - (0 Comments)


Ever since I got my iPhone, I’ve been very interested in finding and creating content and sites that are iPhone friendly. This post is meant to provide a listing of all iPhone enabled blogs (stay tuned for my list of iPhone enabled websites). By iPhone enabled, I simply mean that the site is iPhone friendly, i.e. the site recognizes the iPhone as the User Agent and displays a site that is easily navigated and easily legible through the Safari browser on the iPhone.

If your site is iPhone enabled, and you’d like to be on this list, simply add a link to my site http://i.nconspicuo.us/ from your site and reference this post, and I’ll add a link to your site on the list below. If you still need to enable your WordPress blog for the iPhone, click here. The first 5 listings below are freebees (myself included).

  1. i.nconspicuo.us
  2. Sofa King Drunk – Drink Recipes, Drinking Games
  3. And they call me an Engineer
  4. [mk]
  5. Cyberathlete Professional League

Get your site on this list! Just do the following:

  1. Write a post on your blog linking to this post.
  2. Include the above listing of iPhone enabled blogs.
  3. Send me a message with a link to your post – click here.

Your WordPress Blog Formatted for the iPhone – Best Plugin for WordPress and iPhone

November 12th, 2007 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Tech/Web | Wordpress - (2 Comments)


As the iPhone and iPod touch gain a larger and larger market share, you will begin to see more and more sites that are formatted specifically for the iPhone. Being the lazy bastard that I am, I really didn’t feel like creating an entirely separate site that was formatted specifically for the iPhone, that’s where these new WordPress plugins come in handy. If you want to make the frontend of your site available to iPhone users, you can simply install the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Them found here: iWPhone.

The iWPhone Plugin and Theme allows you to activate and deactivate iPhone functionality for your site just like activating and deactivating a plugin. The way it works is when the plugin is activated, it checks the User Agent, and if it sees that the User Agent is either the iPhone or an iPod (the iPod Touch to be specific), then it simply loads the iPhone Theme that comes with the download.

My only complaints about this Plugin/Theme is that it currently doesn’t offer category support. Basically, when someone views this site, they will only see posts listed as most recent to least recent, they don’t have the option to view a category listing.