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By Lewis Wolfe, Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Alpen3col is now updated to handle all the new functions available in WordPress 2.7 - there’s something of a lack of configurability in wp_list_comments(), which will presumably be rectified as time goes on…
Other themes will follow as time and the need to earn actual money permit…
By Lewis Wolfe, Monday, December 15th, 2008
So far as I have tested, all themes appear compatible with WordPress version 2.7 in their current versions - if you do find anything, please let me know. There may be a few advanced features unavailable as yet, due to the relevant template tags not yet catered for.
The question of whether you want to run 2.7 or not, I think is an open one - there seems no change in the overall situation following 2.5 and 2.6, just different admin bugs - image rollovers on the admin submit buttons aren’t right, Firefox 2,3, 800px resolution and the media uploads aren’t happy with Windows-version PHP. Linux, good, but that isn’t everybody, unfortunately…
By Lewis Wolfe, Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Still on the search for a SEO plugin for WordPress that gives the extras that might be needed for clients - without removing the flexibility, such as there is, even further from the standard setup of page titles, digests etc.
This one isn’t bad - wpSEO - although the page is German, which might put some off - no need to worry, it’s got the language files - and all the usual SEO stuff - duplicate content elimination, customised meta tags / page titles.
By Lewis Wolfe, Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
With the imminent arrival of WordPress 2.7, there will be significant changes, most particularly to the way a theme brings comments to the page.
As it seems at present, all themes produced prior to WP 2.7 will be rendered obsolete - in the sense of not producing the full 2.7 functionality… whether you may want this, another matter…
We will be working through the back catalogue, and bringing all themes to WP2.7 capability. By the nature of things, this isn’t going to be happening overnight…
By Lewis Wolfe, Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
If you write a blog post that links to another blog post (or sometimes just web page) and you have everything set up right, a pingback sends a notification to that target blog with information about your post.
A trackback can be sent even if you don’t link to the target post - you have to enter the ‘trackback url’ of the target blog post in the relevant input field (’Send trackbacks to’) when writing your post - which will give the same result. A blog will generally supply the link location for trackbacks to its posts.
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By Lewis Wolfe, Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Whether progress in WordPress development continues at the same pace or not, the issue of the capability of a theme to display all new functions, template tags etc, is a live one.
Referred to as compatibility, this perhaps isn’t quite accurate - a theme will (should) work with a range of WordPress versions, (for various reasons, good and bad, we don’t all heed the so-named ‘required’ updates) - however, the question is whether a theme will supply all the functionality of an installed version of WordPress.
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By Lewis Wolfe, Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
It seems ‘official’ - poor honest WordPress Theme designers have a load more work in prospect to drag their themes into compatibility with the projected 2.7 version.
Where this all fits with the discussion about Intense Debate still isn’t elucidated - fair enough, this is a major issue and not going to be decided and promulgated in a week or so.
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WordPress has jQuery in it - it’s what makes the AJAX in the admin do its stuff and is there to be ‘re-used’ in any site customisations you fancy.
jQuery now announce that Nokia and Microsoft are including the into their official application development platform.
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By Lewis Wolfe, Monday, September 29th, 2008
Having followed the progress of a fair few WP sites, some thoughts on the subject of SEO for WordPress.
It shouldn’t really be simpler - at the time of writing, for the ’standard blog’ - whatever that might mean - the default WordPress install works just fine. This could change, either on the WordPress side, or by any popular search engine radically changing the way they do things, but not so likely…
You can get into more of a mess by messing with the default, than leaving well alone.
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Staypressed has been updated for WP 2.7 threaded and paged comments - and further development has moved here …
