WordPress 2.8 “Baker” Released

June 10, 2009 – 10:42 pm

Word­Press 2.8 (code­name “Bak­er”) was released this evening, and it’s a nice evo­lu­tion of every­one’s favourite blog­ging engine/Content Man­age­ment System.

2.8 pol­ish­es up the already stel­lar 2.7 admin inter­face with the abil­i­ty to view and install themes direct­ly, as well as huge­ly improved wid­get man­age­ment. The last item means that we’re going to see a lot more themes mak­ing more exten­sive use of wid­gets I think!

Speak­ing of themes, my free theme The Eru­dite was test­ed on pre-release ver­sions of 2.8 and should work per­fect­ly out of the box. And, since it’s in the Word­Press free themes direc­to­ry, you’ll be able to add it right from the admin inter­face in 2.8!

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Panic Goes Nuts

May 28, 2009 – 1:31 am

Well, maybe not, but the folks at Pan­ic have just ini­ti­at­ed a 50% off sale. Of par­tic­u­lar inter­est for web design­ers and/or devel­op­ers are their love­ly Trans­mit (best FTP client ever) and Coda (one win­dow web devel­op­ment) offerings.

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The Erudite 1.3 Released

May 27, 2009 – 12:25 am

This release fix­es an issue with dis­play­ing ping­backs prop­er­ly and adds a pref­er­ence for dis­abling the dynam­ic “Keep Read­ing” func­tion­al­i­ty on the home­page. I did­n’t post about 1.2, but it added a local­iza­tion tem­plate to help non-Eng­lish writ­ers to trans­late it into their own language.

You can down­load this release over at the project page, or from the WP.org themes direc­to­ry when­ev­er they update it.

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The Erudite 1.1 Released

May 13, 2009 – 7:00 pm

After see­ing The Eru­dite in the wild for a few days, I’ve cleaned a few things up and released v1.1. This is the “who’d have guessed that peo­ple would use it in ways I would­n’t have guessed” edition.

If you’re a writer who wants read­ers, go ahead and down­load it.

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The Erudite WordPress Theme

May 8, 2009 – 1:00 pm

Most Word­Press themes are about more graph­ics, more bling, more spots for ban­ners ads and cus­tomiza­tion out the wazoo. There’s sure­ly a place for some of that. But some peo­ple start­ed blog­ging to, you know, write.

The Eru­dite is a Word­Press theme for writ­ers. You can see it in action, or go to the project page for more infor­ma­tion and a down­load link.

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