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Wordpress 2.5 - The Upgrade Resources

Wordpress 2.5 Release Candidate 2 has been released and There are a lot of new features included within. Let me list down some of them:

The New Looks:

  1. New customizable dashboard.. yeah it’s more slick and organized now..dashboard-wide
  2. Built in Image Gallery system, one click multi files uploader.. Check out the screencast by matt
  3. Categories in Editor interface also improved with multi-level and most used categories options.
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  4. Changes in Editor interface, it’s possible to have full screen editor, a toolbar button to create a gallery

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  5. The Manage screens have been redesigned and unified so that now, managing your pages, posts, media, and comments all use similar, consistent interfaces.
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  6. Navigation bars has been improved for professionals and novices alike.
  7. The base code has been optimized for much more stable better performance.

Now you might be excited and obviously worried about the upgrade process on the road to wordpress 2.5 but it’s not a prime time to upgrade it.. Just take your time, download it, do the testing on your local server (you can use EasyPHP, XAMPP or WAMP for testing), test out your themes and check which plugins are not working. Here is a link roll to shorten your research about upgrading: Read the rest of this entry »

Wordpress 2.3 Tag Support for Windows Live Writer

It's fun and easy to make blog posts from Windows Live Writer. Now is supports a wide range of popular blogging platforms including WordPress 2.3. However the support to post tags while blogging is not enabled by default. Wordpress 2.3 has built in tag support similar as Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin for wordpress. There are something needed to be done to enable the support to add tags while you post blog entries from Windows Live Writer.

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Windows Live Writer (WLW) uses an XML manifest file to determine what features a blog supports. By default it does a good job supporting WordPress without a manifest file, but that doesn't include support to mt_keywords (tagging) in XML-RPC methods. The included manifest file turns on tagging support in WLW.

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