I’ve upgraded the site to WordPress µ 2.8.1, which contains a number of improvements on the previous 2.7.1 release.

Most of the dashboard pages now have Screen Options with additional options such as number of columns, and widgets now take advantage of object oriented programming — for the end user, widget management is once again drag-and-drop, and you can even deactivate widgets without deleting them.

As part of the upgrade, my Simpler CSS plugin has been enabled site-wide so that you can customize your theme with your own CSS. You’ll find it as “Custom CSS” under the Appearance menu.

Custom CSS

Important: the old video embedding system has been deactivated for inefficiency, and replaced with a new site-wide installation of Viper’s Video Quicktags, which adds new, simpler-to-use buttons in the Add New Post text editor.

New buttons to embed YouTube, Vimeo and other videos

Hence, [swf URL width height] style tags are no longer supported, and [YouTube URL] embeds must be replaced with [youtube]YouTube URL[/youtube]. I’ve made an attempt to automatically correct these YouTube embeds in posts through the database.

Take advantage of the faster WordPress µ backend, the easier-to-use video embeds, and the ability to customize the design of your blog with custom CSS!