The good and bad of WordPress 2.7

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Dec 232008
 
Category:Wikipedians who use WordPress
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I have been working on a new site on WP 2.7 and there are some gripes. The way the have laid out the new page takes a while to get used to. The side bar navigation is a bit better but there is a lot of scrolling and does take time to find what you need.

I do like the new quick edit function under Manage Posts. This does make it easier to edit categories and tags.

New sticky post feature is a welcome addition as the old WP-Sticky plugin never worked for me and the manual tweak of changing post dates and times was way to fiddly to be worth it.

One big gripe is the lost of the edit post slug function which used to be under the Post Title. This has since disappeared, from my version at least. I can’t find it anywhere which is truly annoying.

The Polldaddy addition is a nice touch which simplifies adding polls to your blog but takes a bit of tweaking and set up.

I did find a great post identifying some of the new features here in more detail.

Am still exploring and am still trying to get over the loss of usage of some of my favorite plugins, making blogging a great deal more hassle. If you have any great finds or tips on WP2.7, please share.

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WordPress 2.7 and Revolution Two WordPress themes

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Dec 162008
 
Revolution Lifestyle Theme

Revolution Lifestyle Theme

I just went to load up a new blog via Fantastico and noticed that it is now at Version 2.7. This means that the theme I was intending to use was not going to be totally compatible. So my quick 5 min job of setting up a new blog now meant an hour or so looking around for a WordPress 2.7 compatible theme.

To my delight, I found that Revolution themes which are by far the most professional Premium WordPress themes around has now gone open source and they have all been updated to be compatible with WordPress 2.7. What a find. Thanks Brian Gardner.

I downloaded the Revolution Lifestyle Theme to play with and was warned before hand that there was a lot of coding required to bring the theme up to speed. After just randomly investigating the options and code, I found that most of it was very obvious and quite easy to tweak.

You do need to use some simple graphic programs to tweak images to make 70×70 thumbnails, the header image, etc. But they provide a blank header image file which you then write over with text in MS Paint. That was the quickest way I thought of doing it. If you have GIMP, you could use that too but a bit overkill.

I got stuck when all the images in the Featured post was the same, when the demo site showed lots of different images. I then found this extremely useful blog post that detailed all the steps in tweaking this theme. Alternatively you can sign up for support at the RevolutionTwo site to get access to the forums for support on all their themes.

Now that I have done one, I am going to try out a few of their other themes for other sites. You can check out their open source wordpress themes here.

Click here to visit Revolution Theme website!

 Posted by Make Passive Income at 2:17 pm  Tagged with: , , , , ,
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