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WordPress 2.8.1

July 10th, 2009

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

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

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!

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Hello, 2.7

January 30th, 2009

It’s here.

Upon logging in to your blog’s backend, you will immediately notice the new WordPress 2.7 interface. Play around with it, explore its features, and get used to it.

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Upcoming Upgrade to WordPress 2.7

October 29th, 2008

With the upcoming release of WordPress 2.7 on November 10, you can expect an upgrade of the PersonalLog system to WordPress mu 2.7 by the end of November, whenever the WordPress mu code base is synced.

The new release of WordPress is expected to bring many significant changes, including drastic (but good) changes to the admin interface, among other features.

Here’s a preview of what the Write Post screen may look like:

New Post screen in WordPress 2.7

Sorry, but this means that we’re all going to need to learn the new interface. I do agree that the new interface is significantly more user-friendly, even though it may take some time to get used to.

Read more about the new changes.

The significant changes in this new release mean that the admin menus (drop-down) inside the admin backend will be disabled today, and the admin menus on the frontend might not work with 2.7.

I’m sure that you’ll appreciate the changes.

Edit: this also means that PersonalLog will be skipping the 2.6.3 upgrade.

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Got large files? Put them on another host.

March 3rd, 2008

Unfortunately, we’re not Google, and we can’t offer you 6 GB on Gmail and 1 GB on your Blogger uploads.

Unfortunately, we’re not WordPress.com either (and we love them very much except for the huge bloated number of users), and you don’t get 3 GB for uploads.

But if you’re lucky, you don’t get the default 25 MB of space either. I am fully capable of upgrading the storage space allocated to each blog. Smash.Weblog — our newest high-volume site — has been given 100 MB. It’s not a lot, but it’s certainly enough for the amount of pictures that the usual text-based blogger needs.

You should note the following restrictions:

  • 25 MB storage space for the new blog; this can be increased to 1024 MB
  • 1500 KB maximum size per file
  • These file types are not permitted: mp3 mov avi wmv midi mid rar zip 7z exe mp4
    • Executable files
    • Archives
    • Multimedia files other than .swf (Flash)
  • These file types are permitted: jpg jpeg png gif bmp doc ppt xls docx pptx xlsx pdf swf (we’re willing to add more if you comment)

If you want to be sharing files (compliant with our Terms of Service, of course, which does not allow warez), software, or music, you might want to take a look at some of the following free file hosts:

While others are specialized to hosting pictures:

In the meantime, keep in mind that you are bound by the Terms of Service.

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